Directional Terms & Planes
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Direction toward or near to the midline.

What is Medial? 

100

The name of the bone commonly referred to as the "collar bone"

What is the Clavicle? 

100

The name of this muscle 

The Rectus Abdominis

100

The Biceps are ________ to the Triceps.

Anterior

100

True or False: The Muscular System makes blood.

False.

The Skeletal System makes blood

200

Plane that divides the body into anterior and posterior portions (front and back)

What is the Frontal Plane?

200

The  ________  ________ includes the skull, vertebral column, ribs and sternum.

What is the Axial Skeleton? 

200

The name of this muscle 

The Triceps 

200

The ankle is ________ to the knee.

Distal

200

How many vertebrae are there in the thoracic spine?

12   

(there are also 12 pairs of ribs)

300

Directional term that means lowermost, below, or toward the feet.

What is Inferior?

300

Name of the group of bones that make up the wrist

What are the carpals? 

300

The name of this muscle group 

The Quadriceps

300

The Radius is ________ to the Ulna.

Lateral 

300

The tissue that connects bone to bone.

What is a ligament? 

400

Directional term that refers to the back of the body  

What is Dorsal?

400

The name for the "jaw bone"

What is the Mandible? 

400

The muscle whose name means triangular shape.

What is the Deltoid? 

400

The Trapezius muscle is ________ to the Gluteus Maximus.

Superior

400

The medical term (word root) for ribs.

What is cost/o ?

500

Directional term that means situated nearest to the beginning of a body structure.

What is Proximal? 

500

This is the section of vertebrae that create the neck.

What is the Cervical Spine? 

500

The muscle whose name means broad to the side on the back.

What is the Latissimus Dorsi?

500

This muscle name means larger muscle on the chest

Pectoralis Major 

500

The medical term (word root) for cartilage.

What is chondr/o ?