Fundamental directions
This term describes a position toward the head or upper part of the body.
What is Superior?
This plane divides the body (or an organ) into front/anterior and back/posterior portions.
What is the Frontal plane?
A regional term denoting the upper leg.
What is the femoral region?
The second largest hollow space in the human body, found in the chest/upper torso and surrounded by the ribs.
What is the Thoracic cavity?
This term describes a position farther from the origin of a body part or the point of attachment.
What is Distal?
This term refers to something that is below something else.
What is inferior?
Also called the horizontal plane, it divides the body into superior and inferior portions.
What is the transverse plane?
What is the Cervical region?
The largest hollow space in the human body, found in the lower torso, but above the pelvis.
What is the Abdominal cavity?
This term describes a structure that is closer to the center/top of the body.
What is proximal?
This term refers to a position toward or at the midline of the body.
What is medial?
The vertical plane dividing the body into right and left parts.
What is the Tarsal/Carpal region? (accept both, or one of the two.)
A bowl-shaped, small cavity found below the abdominal cavity.
What is the Pelvic cavity?
What is a Distal pulse?
This term, in humans, refers to the front of the body.
What is Ventral
A sagittal plane that lies exactly in the midline of the body.
What is the Midsagittal (aka Median) plane?
This regional term denotes the area between the legs, where the thigh meets the trunk of the body.
What is the Inguinal/Pubic region?
The fluid-filled space within the skull that protects the brain.
What is the cranial cavity?
Spongy tissue surrounded by compact bone that holds red blood marrow.
What is the distal epiphysis?
This term describes a structure that is found on the opposite side of the body from another structure.
What is Contralateral?
They are planes separated diagonally between the horizontal and vertical planes of the body.
What are the Oblque sections/planes?
A regional term denoting the foot.
What is the Pedal region?
Long, slender cavity within the back and vertebral column.
What is the Vertebral cavity?
This is a part of the body that is found on the outer regions, focused on movement ad manipulation of objects or surroundings.
What is Appendicular focus? (also accept appendicular skeleton.)