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The directional term for one side.
The term for lifting your shoulders.
What is elevate?
The cavity that runs through all vertebrae and contains the spinal cord.
What is the spinal canal?
The back muscles named as a geometric shape.
What are the rhomboids?
The breast bone.
What is the sternum?
The correct anatomical position.
What is face forward, arms at side, palms facing forward
The motion that draws something closer to the trunk/midline.
What is adduction?
The anatomic term for forward bending your spine.
What is flexion?
The muscle that lifts the scapula.
What is the levator scapulae?
The name for the muscles in-between the ribs.
What are the intercostals?
This plane divides the body into cranial and caudal sections.
What is the horizontal plane?
The term for bringing the thumb and little finger together.
What is opposition?
Two of the four main functions of the spine.
What is protection, support, axis, and movement?
One of the two accessory muscles of respiration.
What is inspiration/expiration or separation of the thorax from the abdominal cavity?
The positional term for the same side.
What is ipsilateral?
The movement that increases the angle between the dorsum of the foot and the leg.
What is plantar flexion?
The type of spine curvature that develops as a baby learns to lift their head.
The muscle that can elevate the scapula that isn't levator scapulae.
What is the trapezius?
The rib numbers that are considered "floating ribs"
What are ribs 11 and 12?
The plane that divides the body exactly into left and right sides.
What is the midsagittal plane?
The movement that rotates the palm downward.
What is pronation?
The name for an injury where the vertebrae collapses, could be caused by a number of things.
What is a compression fracture?
An action completed by the deepest muscles of the spine.
What is bilateral extension or unilateral lateral flexion?
One function of the serratus anterior.
What is allows limb to lift above 90 degrees and holds scapula against the ribcage.