Sports med vocab 1

Superior (cranial or cephalad)

• Navel inferior to the breastbone

• forehead superior to the nose

• toward the head or upper part of a structure or the body

• Superficial

Inferior (caudal)

• Away from the head or toward the lower part of a structure or body

• heart is medial to arms

• Intermediate

• distal

Toward the front of the body

(a)  

Toward the back of the body

(a)  

toward or at the midline of the body

(a)  

Away from midline of body

(a)  

between medial and lateral

(a)  

Close to the origin of a body part, the point of attachment between limb and trunk

(a)  

farther from the point of attachment

(a)  

Towards the surface

(a)