Q 3 Medical Terminology List 1 Remediation

Separates the front and the back of the body

• coronal plane
• sagittal plane
• oblique plane
• transverse plane

Blood vessel

• ad
• ante
• angio
• ab

Towards the head or upper part of the body

• inferior
• posterior
• superior
• medial

away from the head; lower part of the body (the foot is part of the inferior extremity

• inferior
• superior
• lateral
• midline

the midline of the body

• lateral
• posterior
• medial
• anterior

Transverse plane

• separates the upper and lower halves of the body
• separates the left and right sides of the body
• separates the front and back of body
• separates the body at and angle

Oblique plane

• separates the left and right sides of the body
• divides the body at an angle
• separates the front and the back
• separates the upper and the lower parts of the body

moving away from the midline of the body

• abduction
• ablation
• distal
• proximal

What are the muscles that cause the movement of a limb away from the midplane of the body?

• abductor muscles
• adductor muscles
• ablation
• angiocardiogram

A memory deficit caused by brain disease, the effects of sedatives, or brain damage.

• amnesia
• ablation
• analgesic
• dementia