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Language of Anatomy

Total questions: 44

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is this position?

a)

anatomical position

b)

proximal position

c)

proximal position

d)

biological position

2.

Which statement is false regarding the anatomical position?

a)

The palms face the front.

b)

The thumbs point away from the body.

c)

The head is turned to the left side.

d)

The posture is standing erect.

3.

What term means "toward the head end of the body" or "higher/above."?

a)

inferior (or caudal)

b)

superior (or cranial)

c)

anterior

d)

medial

4.

What term means "away from the head" or "lower/under"?

a)

inferior (or caudal)

b)

superior (or cranial)

c)

anterior

d)

medial

5.

What term means "front of" or "in the front." Your abdominal muscles are on the _________ side of the body?

a)

posterior (or dorsal)

b)

medial

c)

anterior (or ventral)

d)

proximal

6.

What term means the opposite of anterior: "back of" or "behind/on the back"?

a)

posterior (or dorsal)

b)

medial

c)

anterior (or ventral)

d)

proximal

7.

What term means toward the midline (middle) of the body?

a)

lateral

b)

anterior

c)

inferior

d)

medial

8.

What term means away from the midline (middle) of the body?

a)

lateral

b)

anterior

c)

inferior

d)

medial

9.

What term describes the nearest point of attachment to limb or structure?

a)

proximal

b)

medial

c)

ventral

d)

distal

10.

What term describes the point farthest away from attachment or origin?

a)

proximal

b)

medial

c)

ventral

d)

distal

11.

What term means closer to the body surface? Example: Skin is __________ to the skeletal muscles.

a)

deep

b)

superficial

c)

frontal

d)

superior

12.

What term means further from the body surface? Example: Lungs are _______ to the rib cage.

a)

deep

b)

superficial

c)

frontal

d)

superior

13.

Which plane is depicted with letter A?

a)

sagittal plane

b)

doral

c)

frontal

d)

posterior

14.

Which plane is depicted with letter B?

a)

midsagittal plane

b)

parasagittal plane

c)

frontal

d)

posterior

15.

Which plane is depicted with letter C?

a)

midsagittal plane

b)

parasagittal plane

c)

frontal

d)

posterior

16.

What is a plane that runs vertically from top to bottom and divides the body into a front (anterior) portion and a back (posterior) portion?

a)

sagittal

b)

transverse

c)

frontal

d)

superior

17.

What is the only plane that runs horizontally, dividing the body or structure into a top (superior) and bottom (inferior) half?

a)

frontal (or coronal) plane

b)

transverse (or horizontal) plane

c)

sagittal plane

d)

dorsal

18.

Which body cavity can be subdivided into two main parts: the cranial cavity and the vertebral cavity?

a)

dorsal body cavity

b)

ventral body cavity

19.

Which body cavity can be located toward the front of the body and contains our visceral organs (or guts). It can be divided into the thoracic cavity and abdominopelvic cavity. It is shaded blue in the picture?

a)

dorsal body cavity

b)

ventral body cavity

20.

What body cavity houses the brain?

a)

vertebral cavity

b)

thoracic cavity

c)

pleural cavity

d)

cranial cavity

21.

What body cavity houses the spinal cord?

a)

vertebral cavity

b)

thoracic cavity

c)

pleural cavity

d)

cranial cavity

22.

What cavity, also called the chest cavity, sits superior (higher) to the abdominopelvic cavity, and it contains organs such as the heart, lungs, trachea, and esophagus. It can be divided into 3 parts?

a)

thoracic cavity

b)

dorsal cavity

c)

vertebral cavity

d)

cranial cavity

23.

What part of the thoracic cavity contains the pericardial cavity (heart), trachea, esophagus, and thymus gland?

a)

mediastinum

b)

pleural cavity

c)

cranial cavity

d)

vertebral cavity

24.

What part of the thoracic cavity houses the lungs?

a)

mediastinum

b)

left/right pleural cavities

c)

cranial cavity

d)

vertebral cavity

25.

Which cavity contains organs such as the liver, stomach, pancreas, spleen, gallbladder, intestines and kidneys?

a)

pelvic cavity

b)

thoracic cavity

c)

vertebral cavity

d)

abdominal cavity

26.

Which cavity contains the bladder, reproductive organs, and the distal portions of the large intestine (sigmoid colon and rectum)?

a)

pelvic cavity

b)

thoracic cavity

c)

vertebral cavity

d)

abdominal cavity

27.

What quadrant houses the Liver, stomach, gallbladder, duodenum, right kidney, pancreas, and the right adrenal gland?

a)

Right Upper Quadrant

b)

Left Upper Quadrant

c)

Right Lower Quadrant

d)

Left Lower Quadrant

28.

What quadrant houses the Liver, stomach, pancreas, left kidney, spleen, and the left adrenal gland?

a)

Right Upper Quadrant

b)

Left Upper Quadrant

c)

Right Lower Quadrant

d)

Left Lower Quadrant

29.

What quadrant houses the appendix, reproductive organs, right ureter?

a)

Right Upper Quadrant

b)

Left Upper Quadrant

c)

Right Lower Quadrant

d)

Left Lower Quadrant

30.

What quadrant houses the left ureter and reproductive organs?

a)

Right Upper Quadrant

b)

Left Upper Quadrant

c)

Right Lower Quadrant

d)

Left Lower Quadrant

31.

What region has a prefix that means below or under. It has a suffix that means cartilage which refers to the cartilage of ribs?

a)

left/right hypochondriac regions

b)

left/right lumbar regions

c)

left/right iliac regions

d)

epigastric region

e)

umbilical region

32.

What region refers to the vertebrae in your lower back, which are the bones nearest to the lumbar region. That’s where this region gets its name?

a)

left/right hypochondriac regions

b)

left/right lumbar regions

c)

left/right iliac regions

d)

epigastric region

e)

umbilical region

33.

What region refers to the region that covers the top of the hip bone has what is called the iliac crest, and that’s the bone closest to the iliac region?

a)

left/right hypochondriac regions

b)

left/right lumbar regions

c)

left/right iliac regions

d)

epigastric region

e)

umbilical region

34.

What region is the region over and above the belly?

a)

left/right hypochondriac regions

b)

left/right lumbar regions

c)

left/right iliac regions

d)

epigastric region

e)

umbilical region

35.

What region is the region below the belly?

a)

left/right hypochondriac regions

b)

left/right lumbar regions

c)

left/right iliac regions

d)

epigastric region

e)

hypogastric region

36.

What region houses organs such as the liver, gallbladder, right kidney, and portions of the small and large intestine?

a)

right hypochondriac

b)

left hypochondriac

c)

right lumbar

d)

left lumbar

e)

epigastric

37.

What region houses portions of the liver, as well as the stomach, pancreas, duodenum, spleen, and adrenal glands?

a)

right hypochondriac

b)

left hypochondriac

c)

right lumbar

d)

left lumbar

e)

epigastric

38.

What region contains the spleen, large/small intestines, left kidney, pancreas, stomach, and tip of the liver?

a)

right hypochondriac

b)

left hypochondriac

c)

right lumbar

d)

left lumbar

e)

epigastric

39.

What region will you find portions of the ascending colon, small intestine, and right kidney?

a)

right hypochondriac

b)

left hypochondriac

c)

right lumbar

d)

left lumbar

e)

epigastric

40.

What region will you find parts of the descending colon, small intestine, and left kidney?

a)

right hypochondriac

b)

left hypochondriac

c)

right lumbar

d)

left lumbar

e)

epigastric

41.

What region will you find parts of the appendix, cecum, ascending colon, and small intestine?

a)

right hypochondriac

b)

hypogastric

c)

right iliac

d)

left iliac

e)

umbilical region

42.

What region will you find parts of the duodenum, the small intestine, as well as the transverse colon?

a)

right hypochondriac

b)

hypogastric

c)

right iliac

d)

left iliac

e)

umbilical region

43.

What region will you find parts of the bladder, portions of the sigmoid colon, small intestine, and reproductive organs?

a)

right hypochondriac

b)

hypogastric

c)

right iliac

d)

left iliac

e)

umbilical region

44.

What region will you find parts of the sigmoid colon, descending colon and small intestine?

a)

right hypochondriac

b)

hypogastric

c)

right iliac

d)

left iliac

e)

umbilical region