Directional Terms
Above another structure. The head is _____ to the neck.
What is superior?
Divides the body into anterior and posterior portions.
What is the frontal plane?
Another name for internal organs contained in a body cavity
What is viscera?
Quadrant containing the stomach and spleen.
What is the Left Upper Quadrant? (LUQ)
Pad of cartilage between the vertebrae.
What is a disk?
Toward the front side of the body. The forehead is on the _____ side of the body.
What is anterior?
Divides body into top and bottom portions
What is the transverse plane?
Separates the abdominal and thoracic cavities
What is the diaphragm?
Major landmark for dividing quadrants.
What is the umbilicus (navel)?
Meta-
What is change?
Pertaining to the side. The left lung lies ______ to the heart.
What is lateral?
medi/o
What is middle?
This cavity contains the pituitary gland.
What is the cranial cavity?
Quadrant containing the appendix
What is the Right Lower Quadrant? (RLQ)
Windpipe
What is the trachea?
Lying on the belly.
What is prone?
The definition of anabolism
What is the process of building up large protein pieces from smaller pieces (amino acids)?
Pleural Cavity
What is the space between the membranes around the lungs; the space surrounding each lung?
Region containing the urinary bladder
What is the hypogastric region?
One doesn't belong:
-eal
-ism
-ose
-iac
What is -ism? (process, condition)
Near the point attachment to the trunk or near the begining of a structure
What is proximal?
Sagittal plane divides the body into _____
What is right and left sides?
Space outside of and between the lungs
What is medistinum?
Inferior to the sacrum
What is the coccyx (tailbone)?
Larynx
What is the voicebox?