Medical Terminology Chapter 5 part 1

Anatomical position includes all the following except

• Standing up

• Facing forward

• Holding arms up

• Palms are forward

Medial means

• toward the left

• toward the right

• toward the feet

• toward the middle

Lateral means

• away from the midline

• away from the right

• away from the left

• away from the bottom

The image below shows which of the planes

• sagittal

• midline

• midsagittal

• transverse

This is another term for coronal plane.

• midline

• sagittal

• transverse

• frontal

This is another word for anterior or toward the front

• dorsal

• caudal

• vertical

• ventral

The word anterior means

• right

• front

• back

• left

This word means toward the back

• inferior

• anterior

• superior

• posterior

This is the vertical plane that divides the body into unequal left and right portions

• frontal

• sagittal

• coronal

• midline

dorsal or _______

• inferior

• cranial

• posterior

• cephalic