Body Planes
A standardized posture to standardize the landmarks of the human body and improve communication between researchers.
What is anatomical position?
Opposing term to lateral.
What is medial?
Anatomical reference term also used to describe someone who can't beyond the surface.
What is superficial?
Opposing joint motion to adduction.
What is abduction?
These opposing motions are almost exclusively used to describe the articulation of the radius and ulna in the human forearm.
What is pronation/supination?
What is the sagittal plane?
(Median plane is also acceptable)
Terms used in relationship to the transverse plane of the body.
What are superior/inferior?
Best term for explaining your palms relationship to your elbow despite the position of your arm.
What is distal?
Our calf muscles activate to create this motion at the ankle joint, pushing our foot away from our center mass.
What is plantarflexion?
Movement used to grasp an object with my four digits.
What is flexion?
Dividing the body into a top and bottom, one of this anatomical plane's names is used often when referring to scientific samples.
What is the transverse plane?
Cross is also an acceptable answer (such as in cross section)
Anatomical orientation term that would be the most appropriate to describe the brain's location in reference to the cranium.
What is deep?
Term referencing points if interest existing on the same side of the sagittal plane.
What is ipsilateral?
The reduction of a joints angle within the frontal plane.
What is flexion?
Increasing the angle of a joint in reference to the midline of the body.
What is abduction?
Front and back, this plane divides the body into what is seen coming and what is seen going.
What is the coronal plane?
Frontal plane is also acceptable.
The relationship of your right shoulder to your heart is most accurately described by this anatomical orientation term.
What is contralateral?
Anatomical orientation term that would be the most appropriate to describe your thumbs relationship to your palm?
What is lateral?
Observed as the lower leg moving towards one another when sitting; this rotation of the hip can be easily confused if you focus too distally.
What is external rotation?
This commonly known position was used by the creator of the videos we watched to help remember flexion-capable joints.
What is the fetal position?
Used often in radiology, this plane/view allows for multiple planes to be assessed simultaneously.
What is an oblique plane?
The two sets of anatomical orientation terms that 'flip' when changing from bipedal to quadrupedal anatomy.
What are dorsal/ventral & superior/inferior?
Remember: Anterior/posterior are the 'same' as dorsal/ventral; but they are usually used to distinguish vertically aligned [A/P] and horizontally aligned [D/V] organisms.
In reference to each of the three planes of the human body; describes the orientation of your right eye to your anatomical center.
What is anterior, superior, and lateral?
This is the primary, discussed, difference between circumduction and rotation.
What is their axis point/location?
ie: circumduction pivots around an endpoint; rotation is around a central axis
While the humeroulnar joint of the elbow flexes and extends, the humeroradial joint of the elbow is classified as which type of movement?
What is rotation?