Lecture 1 -Directional Terms

Question 1

What direction is cranial?

Answer 1

towards the head

Question 2

What direction is caudal?

Answer 2

towards the tail

Question 3

What direction is proximal?

Answer 3

close to the body

Question 4

What direction is distal?

Answer 4

away from the body

Question 5

Where is the transverse plane?

Answer 5

perpendicular to the long axis of the body (up and down on animal)

Question 6

Where is the sagittal plane?

Answer 6

divides the body into right/left parts

Question 7

Where is the median plane? Other name?

Answer 7

down the centre of the animal. aka mid-sagittal plane

Question 8

where is the dorsal plane?

Answer 8

slices the animal horizontally

Question 9

describe where anterior, posterior, superior and inferior are

Answer 9

anterior in front
posterior behind
superior above
inferior below

Question 10

where are palmar and plantar?

Answer 10

palmar -palm side of front limbs

plantar -underside of back limbs

Question 11

describe axial and abaxial

Answer 11

abaxial -directed away from the longitudal central axis of a limb.
axial -directed towards the longitudal central axis of a limb.

Question 12

thoracic limb is the?

Answer 12

front limb

Question 13

pelvic limb is the?

Answer 13

back limb

Question 14

remember to study major structures & bones of head, neck, thorax, abdomen and limbs

Answer 14

see diagrams in prac book and lecture notes