Anatomical terminology

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Anterior: ventral

Question 2

What is the back view called ?

Answer 2

Posterior: dorsal

Question 3

What is the palm of the hand?

Answer 3

Ventral

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Posterior

Question 5

What does proximal mean?

Answer 5

Towards the head/midline of the body

Question 6

What does distal mean?

Answer 6

Far from the head/midline of the body

Question 7

Name of the top of the feet

Answer 7

Dorsum of foot

Question 8

What does medial mean?

Answer 8

Close to the midline, moving towards the midline

Question 9

What does lateral mean?

Answer 9

Moving away from the midline

Question 10

What context do we use proximal/distal ?

Answer 10

Limbs (arms legs)

Question 11

What context do we use medial and lateral ?

Answer 11

Organs, things on torso

Question 12

What is the midline sagittal plane?

Answer 12

Divides the body into right and left

Question 13

What does the sagittal axis go through?

Answer 13

Posterior to anterior

Question 14

What is the transverse plane?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

What is the frontal/coronal plane?

Answer 15

Divides body into anterior and posterior

Question 16

What does the transverse axis go through ?

Answer 16

Side to side

Question 17

What does the longitudinal axis go through ?

Answer 17

Head to feet

Question 18

Different name for palmar (hands)

Answer 18

Volar

Question 19

What does cranial/superior means?

Answer 19

Towards the head

Question 20

What does cadual/inferior means?

Answer 20

Towards the tailbone (sacrum)

Question 21

What does anterior/ventral means?

Answer 21

Towards the front/abdomen

Question 22

What does posterior/dorsal means?

Answer 22

Towards the back

Question 23

What separates the thoracic and abdominal cavity?

Answer 23

The diaphragm

Question 24

Where is the thoracic cavity in comparison to the diaphragm?

Answer 24

Above

Question 25

Where is the abdominal cavity in comparison to the diaphragm?

Answer 25

Below

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Bone

Question 27

Different name for basisternal line

Answer 27

Xiphoid line

Question 28

What does para mean?

Answer 28

Close

Question 29

What does emi means? (emiclaveclar)

Answer 29

Half

Question 30

What are the 4 levels of organisation?

Answer 30

Cells-> tissues-> organ-> System

Question 31

What two groups of organs are there?

Answer 31

Hollow organs and solid organs

Question 32

Example of solid organs?

Answer 32

Liver, spleen, lungs and so on

Question 33

What are solid organs made of?

Answer 33

parenchyma + capsule of connective tissue

Question 34

What are the two types of hollow organs?

Answer 34

Visceral organs and vessels

Question 35

What kind of organ is the heart?

Answer 35

Hollow organ

Question 36

What are the 4 layers of visceral organs?

Answer 36

Mucosa, submucosa, muscolare layer and tunica adventitia/ serosa

Question 37

Do all visceral organs have all 4 layers?

Answer 37

No not necessarily

Question 38

What is the hylum of a solid organ?

Answer 38

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

Question 39

What does epi mean?

Answer 39

Above

Question 40

What does hypo mean?

Answer 40

Below

Question 41

Different name for the abdominal cavity?

Answer 41

The peritoneal cavity

Question 42

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

Answer 42

Antimeres

Question 43

Are the antimeres the same? Internally and externally

Answer 43

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

Question 44

Different name for coronal plane

Answer 44

Frontal plane

Question 45

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

Answer 45

Rostral or cranial

Question 46

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

Answer 46

Caudal

Question 47

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

Answer 47

Right hypochondrium

Question 48

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

Answer 48

Epigastric region/fossa

Question 49

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

Answer 49

Left hypochondrium

Question 50

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

Answer 50

Right lateral abdominal region/ right flank

Question 51

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

Answer 51

Mesogastric region

Question 52

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

Answer 52

Left lateral abdominal region/ left flank

Question 53

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

Answer 53

Right inguinal region/ right inigunoabdominal region

Question 54

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

Answer 54

Pubic region

Question 55

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

Answer 55

Left inguinal region/ Left inigunoabdominal region

Question 56

Two types of hollow organs

Answer 56

Viscera Hollow organs of the cardiovascular system

Question 57

Two types of organs

Answer 57

Solid Hollow

Question 58

What is the hilum?

Answer 58

Functional entry to the organ and passage point for all connectors

Question 59

What are the viscera organs?

Answer 59

The ones housed in somatic cavities of the head and trunk

Question 60

Is the term viscera and organs synonymous?

Answer 60

No

Question 61

The two parts of the head

Answer 61

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

Question 62

What does the integument include?

Answer 62

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

Question 63

What are the cutaneous appendages?

Answer 63

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

Question 64

What do the cutaneous appendages develop from?

Answer 64

The epidermis