Cavities & Quadrants
This body cavity contains the spinal cord and the beginning of the spinal nerves.
What is the vertebral cavity?
Bones, cartilage and ligaments.
What is the skeletal system?
This pair of directional terms is used to describe the relationship from the attachment of a limb to the trunk.
What are proximal and distal?
The two terms used to describe the surfaces of the hand.
What are palmar and dorsum?
The term used to describe a reclining body that is face up.
What is supine?
The mediastinum is located in this body cavity.
What is the thoracic cavity?
Rapid internal communication, coordination, motor control and sensation.
What is the nervous system?
This term is used to describe something toward or on the surface of the body.
What is superficial?
The regional term for the wrist.
What is carpal?
This anatomical plane divides the body into an anterior and posterior portion.
What is the frontal or coronal plane?
This structure separates the thoracic and abdominal cavities.
What is the respiratory diaphragm?
Three of the anatomical structures of the respiratory system.
What are the nasal passages, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli, lungs?
The umbilicus is _________ to the hip joint.
What is medial?
The space behind the knee.
What is popliteal?
The placement of the arms and hands in anatomical position.
What are arms at the sides of the body and palms directed forward?
The majority of the liver is found in this abdominal quadrant.
What is the Right Upper Quadrant (RUQ)?
Recovers excess tissue fluid, pathogen detection, transport dietary fats.
What is the lymphatic system?
This directional term is also known as dorsal.
What is posterior?
The regional term given to the forearm.
What is antebrachial?
This anatomical plane divides the body into unequal right and left sides.
What is the parasagittal plane?
This structure lines the wall of the abdominal cavity.
What is the peritoneum?
Three of the physiological functions of the integumentary system.
What are protection, water retention, thermoregulation, Vitamin D synthesis, cutaneous sensation and nonverbal communication?
Two of the directional terms used to describe a structure that is toward the head.
What are superior, cranial and cephalic?
In the nine region system of the abdominal cavity, this region's name means below the rib cartilage.
What is Hypochondriac?
The regional term for the posterior leg.
What is sural?