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Anatomical terminology Flashcards

1
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What is the frontal view with palm of your hand out called?

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Anterior: ventral

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What is the back view called ?

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Posterior: dorsal

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What is the palm of the hand?

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Ventral

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4
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Which way is the back (dorsal) of the hand facing?

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Posterior

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5
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What does proximal mean?

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Towards the head/midline of the body

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What does distal mean?

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Far from the head/midline of the body

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7
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Name of the top of the feet

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Dorsum of foot

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What does medial mean?

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Close to the midline, moving towards the midline

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What does lateral mean?

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Moving away from the midline

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10
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What context do we use proximal/distal ?

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Limbs (arms legs)

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What context do we use medial and lateral ?

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Organs, things on torso

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12
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What is the midline sagittal plane?

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Divides the body into right and left

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13
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What does the sagittal axis go through?

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Posterior to anterior

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What is the transverse plane?

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Divides body into two parts, lower part and upper part. Horizontal

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15
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What is the frontal/coronal plane?

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Divides body into anterior and posterior

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16
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What does the transverse axis go through ?

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Side to side

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17
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What does the longitudinal axis go through ?

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Head to feet

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18
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Different name for palmar (hands)

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Volar

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19
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What does cranial/superior means?

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Towards the head

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20
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What does cadual/inferior means?

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Towards the tailbone (sacrum)

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21
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What does anterior/ventral means?

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Towards the front/abdomen

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22
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What does posterior/dorsal means?

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Towards the back

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23
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What separates the thoracic and abdominal cavity?

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The diaphragm

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24
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Where is the thoracic cavity in comparison to the diaphragm?

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Above

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25
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Where is the abdominal cavity in comparison to the diaphragm?

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Below

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26
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What are used as a point of reference/landmark when describing location of organs?

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Bone

27
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Different name for basisternal line

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Xiphoid line

28
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What does para mean?

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Close

29
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What does emi means? (emiclaveclar)

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Half

30
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What are the 4 levels of organisation?

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Cells-> tissues-> organ-> System

31
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What two groups of organs are there?

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Hollow organs and solid organs

32
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Example of solid organs?

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Liver, spleen, lungs and so on

33
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What are solid organs made of?

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parenchyma + capsule of connective tissue

34
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What are the two types of hollow organs?

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Visceral organs and vessels

35
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What kind of organ is the heart?

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Hollow organ

36
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What are the 4 layers of visceral organs?

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Mucosa, submucosa, muscolare layer and tunica adventitia/ serosa

37
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Do all visceral organs have all 4 layers?

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No not necessarily

38
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What is the hylum of a solid organ?

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Where structure such as blood vessels and nerves enter (and exit) an organ

39
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What does epi mean?

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Above

40
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What does hypo mean?

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Below

41
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Different name for the abdominal cavity?

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The peritoneal cavity

42
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What is are the two parts called when planes divides the body into left and right regardless of whether it is centred or not?

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Antimeres

43
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Are the antimeres the same? Internally and externally

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No they are not the same internally or externally (though closer to being so externally)

44
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Different name for coronal plane

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Frontal plane

45
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Different name for superior part of the body when divided in the transverse plane

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Rostral or cranial

46
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Different name for inferior part of the body when divided in the transverse plane

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Caudal

47
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What is the first quadrent of the anterior abdominal wall called?

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Right hypochondrium

48
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What is the second quadrent of the anterior abdominal wall called?

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Epigastric region/fossa

49
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What is the third quadrent of the anterior abdominal wall called?

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Left hypochondrium

50
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What is the fourth quadrent of the anterior abdominal wall called?

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Right lateral abdominal region/ right flank

51
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What is the fifth quadrent of the anterior abdominal wall called?

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Mesogastric region

52
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What is the sixth quadrent of the anterior abdominal wall called?

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Left lateral abdominal region/ left flank

53
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What is the seventh quadrent of the anterior abdominal wall called?

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Right inguinal region/ right inigunoabdominal region

54
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What is the eighth quadrent of the anterior abdominal wall called?

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Pubic region

55
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What is the ninth quadrent of the anterior abdominal wall called?

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Left inguinal region/ Left inigunoabdominal region

56
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Two types of hollow organs

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Viscera
Hollow organs of the cardiovascular system

57
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Two types of organs

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Solid
Hollow

58
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What is the hilum?

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Functional entry to the organ and passage point for all connectors

59
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What are the viscera organs?

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The ones housed in somatic cavities of the head and trunk

60
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Is the term viscera and organs synonymous?

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No

61
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The two parts of the head

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Brain part: cranium, neurocranium
Face part: face, viscerocranium

62
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What does the integument include?

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The skin
Underlying subcutaneous tissue (hypodermis)
Appendages distributed in the skin

63
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What are the cutaneous appendages?

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Nails
Hair
Sebaceous glands
Eccrine sweat glands
Apocrine sweat glands
Mammary gland

64
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What do the cutaneous appendages develop from?

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The epidermis

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