Planes
Body Cavities
Definitions
Directional Terms
100

The plane that divides our body into anterior and posterior parts

What is the frontal plane?

100

The cavity where our brain is

What is the cranial cavitiy?
100

Towards the midline

What is medial?

100

The mouth is more _____ to the nose?

What is inferior?

200

The plane that divides our body into left and right parts

What is the sagittal plane?

200

The cavity that our stomach lives in

What is the abdominal cavity?

200

Away from the trunk

What is distal?
200

The ankle is ____ to the knee?

What is distal?

300

The plane that divides our body into top and bottom parts

What is the transverse plane?

300

The cavity where our spinal cord lives

What is our vertebral cavity?

300

Below

What is inferior?

300

The nose is more _____ to the ears

What is anterior?

400

Another name for the frontal plane

What is coronal? 

400

The cavity where our reproductive organs live

What is our pelvic cavity?

400

in front

What is anterior?

400

The skin is _____ to the bones

What is superficial?
500

Motions that occur in the transverse plane

What are rotational movements?

500

The cavity where our lungs and heart live

What is the thoracic cavity?

500

Back of

What is posterior?

500

The ears are _____ to the eyes

What is lateral?