Intro

Question 1

The body is divided longitudinally through the midline into right and left
halves. What plane is this?

Answer 1

Medial Plane

Question 2

The body is divided longitudinally into its
anterior (front) and posterior (back) sections. What plane is this?

Answer 2

Frontal Plane

Question 3

The body is divided cross-sectionally into
upper and lower part. What plane is this?

Answer 3

Transverse Plane

Question 4

Positional terms- Inferior

Answer 4

Further from the head

Question 5

Positional terms- superior

Answer 5

Nearer the head

Question 6

Positional terms- Proximal

Answer 6

Closer to the original limb or body part

Question 7

Positional terms- Distal

Answer 7

Further away from the original limb or body part.

Question 8

Positional terms- Medial

Answer 8

Closer to the Midline of the body

Question 9

Positional term- Superficial

Answer 9

Closer to the surface of the body

Question 10

Positional terms- Deep

Answer 10

Closer to the centre of the body

Question 11

Positional terms- posterior

Answer 11

Behind

Question 12

Positional terms- Anterior

Answer 12

In front

Question 13

Positional terms- dorsal or posterior

Answer 13

Relating to the back of any body part

Question 14

Positional terms- ventral or anterior

Answer 14

Relating to the front of any body

Question 15

Positional terms- palmar

Answer 15

Relating to the palms of the hands

Question 16

Positional terms- plantar

Answer 16

Relating to the soles of the feet

Question 17

Positional terms- ulnar

Answer 17

Relating to the little finger side of the forearm

Question 18

Positional terms- radial

Answer 18

Relating to the thumb side of the forearm

Question 19

Positional terms- supine

Answer 19

Lying face up

Question 20

Positional terms- prone

Answer 20

Lying face down

Question 21

What are the 4 body cavities?

Answer 21

Cranial, Thoracic, Abdominal and Pelvic

Question 22

What body parts does the cranial body cavity contain?

Answer 22

The brain

Question 23

What body parts are in the thoracic body cavity?

Answer 23

• the trachea (windpipe) and lungs
• the heart and numerous blood vessels
• the oesophagus (part of the digestive system)
• lymph vessels and lymph nodes

Question 24

What body parts are in the abdominal cavity?

Answer 24

• the stomach, small intestine, and most of the large intestine
• the liver, gall bladder, bile ducts and pancreas
• the spleen
• the kidneys and adrenal glands
• blood vessels, lymph vessels and lymph nodes

Question 25

What body parts are in the Pelvic cavity?

Answer 25

- the sigmoid colon, rectum, and anus - some loops of the small intestine - urinary bladder, urethra - in the female: uterus, ovaries, and vagina - in the male: prostate gland and other structures of the male reproductive system

Question 26

What are sesamoid bones? Can you name some examples?

Answer 26

Sesamoid bones are those bones which are situated within tendons, for example the patella and pisiform bones.

Question 27

What are considered to be the 2 parts of the skeleton?

Answer 27

The axial and the appendicular skeleton

Question 28

What does the axial skeleton consist of?

Answer 28

- the skull - the vertebrae - the ribs - the sternum - the sacrum and - the coccyx.

Question 29

What bones consist of the appendicular skeleton?

Answer 29

- the bones which “hang off” the axial skeleton which are… - the shoulder girdle (scapulae and clavicles - the (arm bones) humerus, radius, and ulna - the bones of the wrist and hand - the hip bones - the leg bones (femur, fibula, and tibia) and - the bones of the ankles and feet.

Question 30

Tibia meaning…

Answer 30

Like a flute/pipe

Question 31

Fibula meaning…

Answer 31

Like a buckle/brooch

Question 32

Femur meaning…

Answer 32

Thigh

Question 33

Humerus meaning…

Answer 33

Shoulder

Question 34

Radius meaning…

Answer 34

Spoke of a wheel

Question 35

Hamate meaning….

Answer 35

Like a hook

Question 36

Scaphoid meaning

Answer 36

Like a boat

Question 37

Occipital meaning….

Answer 37

Back of the hand

Question 38

Parietal meaning..

Answer 38

Like a wall of a house

Question 39

Sternum meaning…

Answer 39

The chest

Question 40

Manubrium meaning…

Answer 40

Handle

Question 41

Xiphoid meaning..

Answer 41

Sword

Question 42

Ilium meaning

Answer 42

Flank

Question 43

Sacrum meaning…

Answer 43

Sacred bone

Question 44

What’s the Greek or Latin term for a hollow (from the Latin term for ditch)

Answer 44

Fossa

Question 45

What the Greek or Latin term for the curved surface of bone which forms part of a joint?

Answer 45

Condyle

Question 46

What’s the Greek or Latin term for ‘a bony feature which is closely related to (on/above) a condyle’?

Answer 46

Epicondyle

Question 47

What the Greek or Latin term for ‘ a bony feature which projects out from surrounding bone’?

Answer 47

Tuberosity

Question 48

What the Greek or Latin term for ‘ a hole/channel through bone (often forms the passage for blood vessels or nerves’?

Answer 48

Foremen (plural- Foramina)

Question 49

What word in Greek or Latin is ‘ a foot like bony process (forms part of a typical vertebra)’?

Answer 49

Pedicle

Question 50

In Greek or Latin what is ‘a flat process (forms part of typical vertebra)’?

Answer 50

Lamina

Question 51

What joins bones to bones?

Answer 51

Ligaments

Question 52

What links muscles to bones?

Answer 52

Tendons

Question 53

Muscles that work in pairs are also know as?

Answer 53

antagonistic muscles.

Question 54

Name the word meaning fibres that run parallel to the midline?

Answer 54

Rectus

Question 55

Name the word meaning fibres that run at right angle to the midline?

Answer 55

Transverse

Question 56

Name the word meaning fibres that run diagonally to the midline?

Answer 56

Oblique