Body Planes & Directional Terms
This is the standard reference position for the body.
What is the Anatomical Position?
The movement that decreases the angle between two bones, like bending the elbow.
What is Flexion?
The medical term for the surgical repair of the skin, such as a skin graft.
What is Dermatoplasty?
The abbreviation Fx is commonly used to denote this.
What is a Fracture?
The essential abbreviation ROM stands for this
What is Range of Motion?
The abbreviation for the diagnostic procedure electroencephalogram
What is EEG?
This plane separates the body into anterior (front) and posterior (back) portions.
What is the Coronal (Frontal) Plane?
Straightening a joint, such as the knee, after sitting.
What is Extension?
The condition known as xeroderma literally means this.
What is Abnormally Dry Skin?
A medical term that means inflammation of the cartilage.
What is Chondritis?
The medical term for the rupture of a tendon.
What is Tenorrhexis?
This is defined as a condition of excessive fluid (water) within the ventricles of the brain.
What is Hydrocephalus?
The directional term meaning 'towards the head or upper part of a structure'.
What is Superior?
Moving the arm laterally away from the body's midline.
What is Abduction?
A bluish or purplish discoloration of the skin due to lack of oxygen.
What is Cyanosis?
The term for surgical puncture to remove fluid from a joint.
What is Arthrocentesis?
The term hypertrophy means this type of abnormal development.
What is Excessive Development or Increase in Size?
The term paraplegia is defined as this type of paralysis.
What is Paralysis of the lower half of the body?
The elbow is this directional term to the wrist.
What is Proximal?
Circling the arm at the shoulder, which combines all four angular movements.
What is Circumduction?
The medical term for the condition of excessive sweating.
What is Hyperhidrosis?
The term osteomalacia is defined as this abnormal bone condition.
What is Abnormal Softening of the Bone?
The term bradykinesia refers to this condition.
What is Condition of Slow Movement?
The term polyneuropathy means a disease involving this many nerves.
What is A disease involving many nerves?
This is the large cavity containing the brain and spinal cord.
What is the Dorsal Cavity?
The movement of pointing your foot downward, as if pressing a pedal.
What is Plantar Flexion?
The procedure literally defined as treatment using extreme cold.
What is Cryosurgery?
Inflammation of the bone and bone marrow, known as
What is Osteomyelitis?
The medical term for a surgical incision into the fascia, which is the connective tissue surrounding muscle.
What is Fasciotomy?
The term anesthesia is defined as this condition of sensation.
What is Condition of being without sensation or feeling?