Body Positioning
This position has the person standing, facing forward, arms at the side, and palms forward
What is the anatomical position?
This term refers to something that is towards the surface of the body
What is superficial?
This term is used to describe the ending of a word
What is a suffix?
This body cavity is formed by the skull
What is the cranial cavity?
The heart, lungs, and esophagus can all be found in this body cavity
What is the thoracic cavity?
This position has a person laying down on their stomach/face down
What is prone?
This term means on the side/away from midline
What is lateral?
This is the science that studies the function of the body
What is physiology?
This organ separates the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity
What is the diaphragm?
This quadrant houses the stomach
What is the LUQ?
This position has a person laying on their back/face up
What is supine?
This term refers to things that are close to the trunk of the body
What is proximal?
This body cavity is divided into a superior and an inferior portion
What is the abdominopelvic cavity?
The heart is located in this cavity
What is the pericardial cavity?
The gall bladder can be found in this quadrant
What is the RUQ?
This position has a person in a seated position, reclined to 60 degrees
What is Semi-Fowlers?
This term means away from the body's center (like the arms and legs)
This term is used to describe the 4 sections that the abdomen is frequently divided into.
What are quadrants?
This body cavity is home to the spinal cord
What is the vertebral cavity?
Parts of this organ are in all 4 quadrants in the abdomen
What is the large intestine/colon?
This position has the person laying down with their feet upward and head downwards
What is Trendelenburg?
This term means below or inferior
What is caudal?
This term refers to the soft internal organs of the body
What is viscera?
This body cavity contains the lungs
This appendix is located in this quadrant
RLQ