Block 1

Question 1

Describe the sagittal plane

Answer 1

Vertical plane dividing the body into left and right portions

Question 2

Describe the transverse / axial plane

Answer 2

Horizontal plane dividing the body into superior and inferior portions

Question 3

Describe the coronal plane

Answer 3

Vertical plane dividing the body into anterior and posterior portions

Question 4

What does anterior mean?

Answer 4

Front

Question 5

What does posterior mean?

Answer 5

Back

Question 6

What does superior mean?

Answer 6

Upwards / up

Question 7

What does inferior mean?

Answer 7

Downwards / down

Question 8

What does medial mean?

Answer 8

Towards midline

Question 9

What does cranial mean?

Answer 9

Towards cranium

Question 10

What does caudal mean?

Answer 10

Towards feet

Question 11

What does lateral mean?

Answer 11

Away from midline

Question 12

What does superficial mean?

Answer 12

Near the outer surface

Question 13

What does deep mean?

Answer 13

Furthest away from outer surface

Question 14

What does proximal mean?

Answer 14

Closest to mass of body

Question 15

What does distal mean?

Answer 15

Furthest from the mass of body

Question 16

What does palmar mean?

Answer 16

Palm of hand

Question 17

What does plantar mean?

Answer 17

Sole of foot

Question 18

What does rostral mean?

Answer 18

Closest to oral / nasal region

Question 19

What does dorsal mean?

Answer 19

Upper side / back

Question 20

What does ventral mean?

Answer 20

Under side of something

Question 21

The region between the thorax and pelvis is?

Answer 21

Abdomen

Question 22

The upper extremity between the shoulder and elbow

Answer 22

Arm

Question 23

The lower extremity between the knee and ankle

Answer 23

Leg

Question 24

The armpit is also known…?

Answer 24

Axilla

Question 25

The region between the head and trunk is...?

Answer 25

Neck

Question 26

Describe the supine position

Answer 26

A person lying on their back

Question 27

Describe the prone position

Answer 27

A person lying on their front

Question 28

What is the thigh bone called?

Answer 28

Femur

Question 29

What is the name given to the medial one of the two bones in the leg

Answer 29

Tibia

Question 30

What is the name given to the lateral one of the two bones in the leg

Answer 30

Fibula

Question 31

What is the name given to the medial one of the two bones in the arm

Answer 31

Ulnar

Question 32

What is the name given to the lateral one of the two bones in the arm

Answer 32

Radius

Question 33

What is the arm bone called?

Answer 33

Humerus

Question 34

What is the pelvis comprised of?

Answer 34

Sacrum Coccyx 2 Hip Bones (Each comprised of the Ilium, Ischium and Pubis)

Question 35

What is the shoulder blade also known as?

Answer 35

Scapula

Question 36

What is the lower jaw and upper jaw called?

Answer 36

Mandible - Lower | Maxilla - Upper

Question 37

What is a tuberosity?

Answer 37

A bony lump that is large, rounded and rough

Question 38

What is a tubercle?

Answer 38

A small rounded projection / protuberance

Question 39

What is the name given to the large rounded projection found exclusively on the proximal end of the femur?

Answer 39

Trochanter

Question 40

What is a spine?

Answer 40

A sharp / pointed body projection

Question 41

What is a crest?

Answer 41

Most superior projection on a bone

Question 42

What is a fissure? Why do fissures exist?

Answer 42

A long cleft along a bone, usually for blood vessel passage

Question 43

What is a foramen? Why do foramens exist?

Answer 43

A hole in a bone, for passage of blood vessels or nerves

Question 44

What is a meatus?

Answer 44

A passage

Question 45

What is a notch?

Answer 45

An indentation / incision on a bone

Question 46

What is a sulcus?

Answer 46

A groove / furrow on bone

Question 47

What is a suture?

Answer 47

A seam like immovable junction between two bones

Question 48

Describe what a red blood cell looks like in a blood film

Answer 48

Most numerous type of blood cell, appear light pink and donut shaped with a pale centre. No nucleus

Question 49

Describe what a platelet looks like in a blood film

Answer 49

Smaller size that red blood cells. Fragmented

Question 50

Describe what a neutrophil looks like in a blood film

Answer 50

Larger than red blood cells. Faint pink granular cytoplasm. Multi-lobed single nucleus, with 2-5 lobes

Question 51

Describe what a lymphocyte looks like in a blood film

Answer 51

Smaller than red blood cells. Small, dark spherical nucleus with little cytoplasm

Question 52

Describe what a monocyte looks like in a blood film

Answer 52

Kidney shaped off placed nucleus, with lots of cytoplasm. Biggest of white blood cells

Question 53

Describe what a basophil looks like in a blood film

Answer 53

Bi-lobed nucleus. Deep blue granules

Question 54

Describe what eosinophils looks like in a blood film

Answer 54

3 times larger than red blood cells. Granular. Bi-lobed nucleus

Question 55

Where would simple squamous epithelium be typically found?

Answer 55

Typically found lining blood vessels and body cavities

Question 56

Where would simple cuboidal epithelium be typically found?

Answer 56

Typically found lining small ducts and tubules

Question 57

Where would simple columnar epithelium be typically found?

Answer 57

Stomach, intestine, uterine cervix

Question 58

Where would pseudostratified columnar epithelium be typically found?

Answer 58

Lines most major airways

Question 59

Where would stratified squamous keratinising epithelium be typically found?

Answer 59

Skin and oral epithelia

Question 60

Where would stratified squamous non-keratinising epithelium be typically found?

Answer 60

Lining the oesophagus

Question 61

Where would transitional epithelium be typically found?

Answer 61

All of the urinary tract

Question 62

What are the three types of connective tissue?

Answer 62

Loose connective tissue Dense irregular connective tissue Dense regular connective tissue

Question 63

What are the three types of muscle?

Answer 63

Skeletal muscle Cardiac muscle Smooth muscle