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WorksheetsSports Medicine: Movement & Directional Term QUIZ
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Bending the joint to make the angle between the two bones smaller.
Flexion
Extension
Abduction
Adduction
Moving away from midline
Flexion
Extension
Abduction
Adduction
Moving toward the midline.
Flexion
Extension
Abduction
Adduction
Straightening the joint to make the angle between the two bones larger.
Flexion
Extension
Abduction
Adduction
If you tilt your head to touch your ear to your shoulder, you are completing:
Flexion
Lateral Flexion
Extension
Adduction
When screwing in a screw with your right hand, you are doing?
Supination
Pronation
Flexion
Extension
When unscrewing a screw with your right hand, you are doing?
Supination
Pronation
Flexion
Extension
A circular motion combining flexion, extension, abduction, and adduction.
Protraction
Retraction
Circumduction
Pronation
The transverse plane (horizontal plane) divides the body in to_____ and _____ sections?
Left and Right
Front and Back
Top and Bottom
The coronal (frontal) plane divides the body into ______ and ______ sections.
Left and Right
Front and Back
Top and Bottom
The sagittal plane divides the body into and sections.
Medial
Lateral
In anatomical position…
The body is erect with the feet parallel and the arms hanging at the sides with the palms facing backward
The body is lying face up with the feet parallel and the arms at the sides with the palms facing backward
The body is erect with the feet parallel and the arms hanging at the sides with the palms facing forward
The body is lying face down with the feet parallel and the arms at the sides with the palms facing backward
Which anatomical term means towards the surface?
Deep
Superficial
Lateral
Anterior
What term means lying face down?
Supine
Prone
Efferent
Afferent
Which of the following statements is correct?
The toes are proximal to the ankle
The elbow is distal to the wrist
The nose is medial to the ears
The knee is lateral to the foot
Which anatomical term best completes the following sentence: “The fingerprints are ________ to the elbow”?
Proximal
Superficial
Distal
Lateral
The directional terms “distal” and “proximal” deal only with the appendicular portion of the human body. This means that the terms are only used to describe…
The pelvic region
The torso
The head and neck
The arms and legs
Directional terms are used in Anatomy to accurately describe the location of a particular body part or region in orientation to the surrounding parts and regions. If a region is described as “anterior” to another region, where is it?
In front of the region
Behind the region
More internal to the region
More external to the region
The arm or leg rotates medially toward midline
Lateral Rotation
Medial Rotation
Circumduction
Extension
What term means lying face up?
Supine
Prone
Efferent
Afferent
