Planes of Reference
Any plane which is parallel to the medial plane
What is sagittal plane?
Are the skin
What is cutaneous membranes?
What is medial?
breast bone
What is sternal?
Above or higher than normal
What is hyper-?
Divides the body into top (cranial) and bottom (caudal) segments
What is transverse plane?
Line the nose and mouth
What are mucous membranes?
Farther from the head
What is inferior?
Nose
What is nasal?
outer or outside
What is ecto-?
Divides the body into equal left and right halves
What is median plane?
Thick, stringy fluids found in the cavities of synovial joints
What are synovial membranes?
Near the surface
What is superficial?
wrist
What is carpal?
inflammation
What is -itis?
Divides the body into dorsal (back) and ventral (belly) segments
What is frontal plane?
Reduce friction between the cartilage and other tissues in joints to lubricate and cushion them during movement
What are synovial joints?
Folding movement which decreases the angle between two bones
What is flexion?
back
What is dorsum?
loving or lliking
What is -philic?
What is adduction?
sole of feet
What is plantar?
to cut out
What is -ectomy?