Cells & Tissues
Planes
Cavities
Directional Terminology
100

ATOMS- MOLECULES- CELLS- TISSUES- ORGANS- ORGAN SYSTEMS- ________

What is an organism?

100

This plane divides the body into a front half and a back half.

What is the frontal plane?
100

This cavity contains the brain.

What is the cranial cavity?

100
The dorsal cavity is on this side of the body.

What is the posterior?

200

This is considered the building block of all matter.

What are atoms?

200

This plane divides the body into a top half and a bottom half

What is transverse?

200

This cavity includes the cranial and the spinal cavities.

What is dorsal?

200

Moving your leg away from your body is known as this

What is abduction?

300

This tissue is found in muscles.

What is muscular tissue?

300

This plane is the only plane to divide the body into two equal parts with a line running down the middle of the body?

What is medial?

300

This organ can be found in the right lower quadrant attached to the colon.

What is the appendix?
300

The scapula is located on this side of the body.

What is the posterior?

400

The heart is made up of this tissue.

What is cardiac tissue?

400

This plane is any line that runs parallel to the medial plane.

What is the sagittal?

400

This cavity contains the right and left lungs.

What is the thoracic cavity?

400

The head is considered this in relation to the shoulders.

What is superior?

500

This membrane can be found in a person's joints.

Synovial

500

The frontal plane is also known as this.

Coronal

500

This cavity contains the heart.

What is the pericardial cavity?

500

The knee is proximal to the ankle.

The elbow is ______ to the shoulder.

What is distal?