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Body Positions
Imaginary Lines
Pieces Parts
Body Quadrants
It's all in your Head
100
The patient is lying face down.
What is prone the position?
100
It's the opposite of anterior. Better know as the backside.
What is posterior?
100
The side.
What is the flank?
100
the liver can be found in these two quadrants.
What is R/L upper quadrants?
100
The master gland.
What is the Pituitary Gland?
200
The patient is lying face up on his back.
What is the supine position?
200
An imaginary line drawn down the middle of the armpit and divides the body into the anterior plane and the posterior plane.
What is midaxillary line?
200
The top of the foot.
What is dorsum of the foot?
200
I collect and store bile and am located in the R upper quadrant.
What is the gallbladder?
200
This part of the brain controls sensation, thought and associative memory. It also controls voluntary muscle movement. The outermost portion of the brain.
What is the cerebrum?
300
Th patient is lying on his left or right side.
What is l/r lateral recumbent positiion (recovery)?
300
An imaginary line the divides the body into a right plane and a left plane. It runs from the top of the head, down through the entire body to the ground.
What is the midline?
300
The back of the neck is known as this region.
What is the cervical region?
300
This organ is tucked in just inferior and posterior to the stomach and stretches across the R/L upper quadrants. It aids in digestion and helps control glucose levels in the body.
What is the pancreas?
300
This contains the mesencephalon, the pons, and the medulla oblongata. It controls respirations, heart beat, and vaso motor functions along with other autonomic functions. The cool thing is you don't even have to think about them happening.
What is the brainstem?
400
This position that most respiratory patients would prefer to be placed, the upper body is elevated at a 45 to 60 degree angle.
What is Fowler's Position?
400
If you are identifying an injury that is close to the center of the chest(midline), you would say that it is (this) to the chest.
What is medial?
400
The area behind the knee.
What is the popliteal region?
400
The largest solid organ in the body. It lies just inforier to the diaphragh in the R upper quadrant of the body.
What is the liver?
400
Its the liquid that floats around the brain and the spinal cord to help cushion them along with several other important functions. It is constantly produced, circulated and re-absorbed
What is cerebrospinal fluid?
500
The basic postion used as a poiont of reference whenever terms of direction or location are used. The patient is standing erect, facing forward, with arms down at his sides and palms forward.
What is the anatomical position?
500
This line cuts right through the center of what is commonly known as the collar bone.
What is the midclavicular line?
500
The "U" shaped notch at the top of the breast bone.
What is the sternal notch?
500
Where one will find his stomach.
What is the L upper quadrant?
500
Probably the most highly specialized organ in the body. It controls the nervous system and weighs about 3 pounds in the average adult.
What is the brain?