Directional Terms
What is superior?
To bring structures together.
What is adduct?
This plane cuts the body into left and right.
What is sagittal?
The ____ nervous system coordinates the body's skeletal muscles for movement.
Somatic nervous system
This includes the brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
The heart is _______ to the brain.
What is inferior?
The vocal folds are apart during breathing.
What is abduct?
This plane cuts the body into front and back.
What is coronal?
The ____ consists of medulla, pons, and midbrain.
brainstem
The 2 parts of the ______ ________ are the CNS and the PNS.
What is the nervous system?
This structure is superior to the stomach.
What are the lungs?
The action that happens when you bend your elbow to brush your teeth.
What is flexion?
This plane cuts the body into top and bottom.
What is transverse?
To move structures apart.
abduct
This includes the cranial nerves and the spinal nerves.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
This structure is proximal. The wrist or the hand.
What is the wrist is proximal to the hand?
Jack sleeps on his back. The position is ...
What is a supine position?
A sagittal plane that is right in the middle.
What is midsagittal?
The spine is _____ to the stomach.
posterior
This controls many basic life functions such as heartbeat and breathing.
What is the brainstem?
The difference between ipsilateral and contralateral.
What is ipsilateral is the same side and contralateral is the opposite side?
The difference between supine and pronate.
What is lying with the ventral surface up and lying with the ventral surface down?
A sagittal plane that is not in the middle.
What is parasagittal?
___ means opposite sided.
contralateral
Damage to this part of the body can result in body weakness or paralysis.
What is the spinal cord?