Body Parts / Regions
Directional Terms
Serous Membranes & Body Cavities
Body / Organ Planes
Homeostatic Feedback
100

Location of the Femoral

What is Thigh?

100

The chin is ____ to the mouth

What is Inferior

100

The body cavity above the Diaphragm

What is the Thoracic

100

Another name for horizontal plane of the body (also perpendicular to the longitudinal plane of an organ)

What is Transverse

100

Negative feedback response to when one is hot

What is sweating

200

Location of the Brachial

What is the (Upper Arm)

200

The Hips are ____ to the Bellybutton

What is Lateral

200

The Serous Membrane associated with the Stomach & Liver

What is the Peritoneum / Peritoneal 

200

Diagonal cut / plane of an organ

What is Oblique

200

A negative feedback response to running (besides sweating)

What is increased breathing or heart rate (lets 

300

Location of Occipital 

What is the back of the head

300

The Wrist is ____ to the Elbow

What is Distal

300

The Sub - cavity where the heart is located

What is the Mediastinum
300

Vertical Body plane that cuts the Body into equal left and right halves

What is Median / Midsagittal 

300

a Positive feedback response to running a fever 

What is Shivering 

400

Location of Calcaneal

What is the heel

400

The Patellar region is _____ and ____ to the Calcaneal region

What is proximal and anterior / ventral

400
Inner serous membrane that directly touches the heart

What is the Visceral Pericardium

400

Organ plane that cuts the intestines like a hot dog bun

What is Longitudinal

400

_____ is secreted as a negative feedback response when blood sugar levels rise after eating 

What is Insulin

500

Location of Nuchal

What is the back of the neck

500

The Sternum is ____, ____ and ____ to the Lungs (2 okay)

What is Superficial, Medial & Anterior / Ventral

500

The outer serous membrane around the lungs that anchors them to inner wall of thoracic / pleural cavity

What is Parietal Pleura
500

Vertical Plane that cuts the body into Anterior & Posterior sections

 What is Coronal or Frontal

500

a typical Positive feedback mechanism typical in female physiology

What is ovulation or childbirth