Anatomical Directions
What is Anatomy?
What is the study of the shape and structure of body
What anatomical position is this... lying face down palms facing up?
What is prone
What does the word part "circ-, peri-" mean?
What is around
What is the name for the inside lining of the body membranes?
What is the visceral layer
What cavity refers to the FRONT side of the body?
What does physiology mean?
What is the study of function of the body parts
What is the body plane that divides the body into superior and inferior halves? Runs "across" the body
What is the transverse plane
What does the word part "corp-, soma-" mean?
What is body
What is the parietal layer
What structure separates the thoracic from the abdominopelvic cavity?
What is the diaphragm
What parts are in the axial portion of the body?
What is the... head (skull), spine, ribcage
What halves of the body does the Coronal or frontal body plane divide?
*Must name with correct anatomical names!*
What is the ventral and dorsal
What does the word part "epi-" mean?
What is upon, over, or above
What is the inside lining of the organs called?
What is visceral peritoneum
The pelvic cavity contains what structures/ organs?
What is the directional term for moving closer to the midline of the body?
What is medial
Describe the directional term "superficial"
What is the outside lining of the heart is called?
What is parietal pericardium
What two cavities are on the dorsal side of the body?
What are the cranial and spinal cavities
From the shoulder...name a body part that is proximal and distal
Examples distal: femoral, patellar, crural, pedal, digital, etc regions
What body plane divides the left and right sides of the body?
What is the sagittal body plane
What does the word part "cephal-, -ceps" mean?
What is head
What is the fluid that sits between the parietal and visceral membranes?
What are the cavities inside the Thoracic cavity and what does each contain?
Mediastinum = heart and middle upper chest cavity
Pericardial = heart
Pleural = lungs