Body: Regions-Cavities-Directions

It describes the side or direction toward the side of the body.

• Medial

• Superficial

• Lateral

• Deep

It describes a position below or lower than another part of the body

• Superior

• Anterior

• Inferior

• posterior

Describes the back or direction toward the back of the body.

• Posterior

• Anterior

• Superior

• Inferior

Used on limbs only.

• anterior/posterior
• inferior/superior
• proximal/distal
• ventral/dorsal

What plane is shown?

• Coronal (Frontal) Plane

• Sagittal (Vertical) Plane

• Transverse (Horizontal) Plane

• Oblique Plane

This plane divides the body into superior and inferior parts.

• coronal plane

• frontal plane

• transverse plane

• sagittal plane

toward or at the front of the body

• anterior

• dorsal

• deep

• distal

Which structure is most medial?

• nose

• ears

• heart

• femur

Match the following with its opposite.

• Posterior

• Ventral

• Inferior

• Proximal

• Distal

• Superior

• Lateral

• Medial

• Dorsal

• Anterior

Match the following

• Moving toward the median (sagittal) plane

• Inferior

• Moving forward from frontal (coronal) plane

• Anterior

• Moving below the transverse plane

• Superior

• Moving above the transverse plane

• Posterior

• Moving back from frontal (coronal) plane

• Medial