Basic Kinesiology Terms

Question 1

What is the standard reference position that is used to define terms that describe the physical location of the structures of the body and points on the body?

Answer 1

Anatomical Position

Question 2

What term means to the front?

Answer 2

Anterior

Question 3

What term means to the back?

Answer 3

Posterior

Question 4

What is closer to an imaginary midline?

Answer 4

Medial

Question 5

What is farther from the midline?

Answer 5

Lateral

Question 6

What means above? (towards the head)

Answer 6

Superior

Question 7

What means below? (away from the head?)

Answer 7

Inferior

Question 8

What means closer to the axial body?

Answer 8

Proximal

Question 9

What means farther from the axial body?

Answer 9

Distal

Question 10

What means closer to the surface of the body?

Answer 10

Superficial

Question 11

What means farther from the surface of the body?

Answer 11

Deep

Question 12

What terms can be used for the forearm?

Answer 12

Radial and Ulnar

Question 13

What terms can be used for the leg and sometimes in the foot?

Answer 13

Tibial and Fibular

Question 14

What terms can be used for the hand? in place of anterior and posterior

Answer 14

Palmar and Dorsal

Question 15

What means towards the head?

Answer 15

Cranial

Question 16

What means towards the tail of the body?

Answer 16

Caudal

Question 17

What are terms that describe location?

Answer 17

Combining terms of location

Question 18

What are the 3 planes?

Answer 18

Frontal, Sagittal, Transverse

Question 19

What plane divides the body into left and right?

Answer 19

Sagittal

Question 20

What plane divides the body into front and back?

Answer 20

Frontal

Question 21

What plane divides the body into top and bottom?

Answer 21

Transverse

Question 22

What is a plane that is not perfectly sagittal, frontal or transverse?

Answer 22

Oblique

Question 23

What is an imaginary line around which a body part moves?

Answer 23

Axis / Axes

Question 24

IF the body part moves in a straight line, what is it described as?

Answer 24

Nonaxial motion

Question 25

What is the corresponding axis of sagittal plane?

Answer 25

Oriented side to side

Question 26

What is the corresponding axis of frontal plane?

Answer 26

Front to back

Question 27

What is the corresponding axis of transverse plane?

Answer 27

Up and down

Question 28

What do movement terms describe? and what do they not describe?

Answer 28

Describes a direction of motion, Does not describe a static location

Question 29

What is the anterior movement of body part within sagittal plane?

Answer 29

Flexion

Question 30

What is the posterior movement of body part within sagittal plane?

Answer 30

Extension

Question 31

What is the lateral movement away from the midline?

Answer 31

Abduction

Question 32

What is the lateral movement toward the midline?

Answer 32

Adduction

Question 33

What is a side bending movement toward the right within the frontal plane?

Answer 33

Right lateral flexion

Question 34

What is a side bending movement toward the left within the frontal plane?

Answer 34

Left lateral flexion

Question 35

What is a movement within the transverse plane in which the anterior surface of the body part moves to face more laterally? (away from midline)

Answer 35

Lateral rotation

Question 36

What is a movement that moves to the anterior surface to face more medially?

Answer 36

Medial rotation

Question 37

What is a movement within the transverse plane in which the anterior surface of the body part moves to face more to the right?

Answer 37

Right rotation

Question 38

What moves the anterior surface to face more to the left?

Answer 38

Left rotation

Question 39

What is a movement wherein the body part moves superiorly?

Answer 39

Elevation

Question 40

What occurs when the body part moves inferiorly?

Answer 40

Depression

Question 41

What is a movement where in the body part moves anteriorly?

Answer 41

Protraction

Question 42

What is a posterior movement of the body part?

Answer 42

Retraction

Question 43

What is a linear movement that occurs in the lateral direction?

Answer 43

Right / Lateral Deviation

Question 44

What terms can be applied to motion of the forearm at the radioulnar joins and motion of the foot at the subtalar joint?

Answer 44

Pronation and Supination

Question 45

What happens when the foot inverts at the subtalar joint when it turns its plantar surface toward the midline of the body?

Answer 45

Inversion

Question 46

What happens when the foots plantar surface is turned outward away from the midline?

Answer 46

Eversion

Question 47

What is the term when the foot moves superiorly? in the direction of its dorsal surface

Answer 47

Dorsiflexion

Question 48

What is the term when it moves inferiorly? in the direction of its plantar surface

Answer 48

Plantarflexion

Question 49

What is a composite of abduction, flexion and medial rotation of the thumb?

Answer 49

Opposition

Question 50

What is a composite of adduction, extension and lateral rotation of the thumb?

Answer 50

Reposition

Question 51

What is the rotation where the scapula upwardly rotates when its glenoid fossa is moved to face more superiorly?

Answer 51

Upward rotation

Question 52

What is movement of the arm or thigh in which it begins in a horizontal position and then moves anteriorly toward the midline of the body?

Answer 52

Horizontal Flexion

Question 53

What is often used to describe extension beyond anatomic position?

Answer 53

Hyperextension

Question 54

What is a sequence of four actions performed one after the other? NOT AN ACTION

Answer 54

Circumduction