Medical Examiner Notes

Question 1

What do you call a body that is lying face down?

Answer 1

Prone

Question 2

What do you call a body that is lying face up?

Answer 2

Supine

Question 3

What describes the front or direction toward the front of the body?

Answer 3

Anterior/ Ventral

Question 4

What describes the back or direction toward the back of the body?

Answer 4

Posterior/Dorsal

Question 5

What describes a position above or higher than another part of the body?

Answer 5

Superior/ Cranial

Question 6

What describes a position below or lower than another part of the body?

Answer 6

Inferior/ Caudal

Question 7

What describes the side or direction toward the side of the body?

Answer 7

Lateral

Question 8

What describes the middle or direction toward the middle of the body?

Answer 8

Medial

Question 8

What describes a position in a limb that is closer to the center of the body?

Answer 8

Proximal

Question 9

What describes a position in a limb that is further from the center of the body?

Answer 9

Distal

Question 10

What describes a position closer to the surface of the body?

Answer 10

Superficial

Question 11

What plane divides the body or organ horizontally into upper and lower portions?

Answer 11

Transverse Plane

Question 11

What describes a position farther from the surface of the body?

Answer 11

Deep

Question 12

What plane divides the body or an organ vertically into right and left sides?

Answer 12

Sagittal Plane

Question 13

What plane divides the body or an organ into an anterior and a posterior portion?

Answer 13

Frontal Plane

Question 14

What 4 parts does the upper limb consist of?

Answer 14

shoulder, arm, forearm, and hand

Question 15

What regions comprise the trunk (torso)?

Answer 15

chest, abdomen, pelvis, and back

Question 15

What 4 parts does the lower limb consist of?

Answer 15

hip, thigh, leg, and foot

Question 16

What organ does the thoracic cavity house?

Answer 16

lungs

Question 17

Between the lungs is the mediastinum, which contains what organ?

Answer 17

the heart

Question 18

What organs located inside the abdominopelvic cavity help the gastrointestinal tract perform its functions?

Answer 18

liver, gallbladder, pancreas, and spleen

Question 19

Where in the body are some of the largest blood vessels located?

Answer 19

abdomen and pelvis

Question 20

What serves as a passageway between the head and thorax?

Answer 20

neck

Question 21

What continues the nasal and oral cavities?

Answer 21

pharynx (throat)

Question 22

What are the 2 structural divisions of the nervous system?

Answer 22

central and peripheral

Question 23

What does the central nervous system consist of?

Answer 23

brain and spinal cord

Question 24

What are the 4 main parts of the brain?

Answer 24

cerebrum, subcortical structures, brainstem, and cerebellum

Question 25

What are the 5 regions of the spinal cord?

Answer 25

cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccyx

Question 26

What does the peripheral nervous system refer to?

Answer 26

All neural tissue located outside the central nervous system

Question 27

What does the integumentary system consist of?

Answer 27

the skin and its associated appendages (hair follicles, nails, sweat glands, sebaceous glands)

Question 28

What is the musculoskeletal system?

Answer 28

Provides our body with movement, stability, shape, and support

Question 29

What is the nervous system?

Answer 29

A network of neurons whose main feature is to generate, modulate, and transmit information between all the different parts of the body

Question 30

What is the endocrine system?

Answer 30

Glands that release hormones into the bloodstream

Question 31

What is the circulatory system?

Answer 31

Keeps us alive by providing oxygenated, arterial blood to every part of the human body

Question 32

What is the respiratory system?

Answer 32

Keeps us alive via the inhalation of oxygen and the elimination of carbon dioxide

Question 33

What is the digestive system?

Answer 33

Food is ingested via the mouth, processed and absorbed inside the system, and the resulting solid wastes called feces are eliminated via the anus

Question 34

What is the urinary system?

Answer 34

The major filtering unit of the human body, responsible for purifying the blood and eliminating wastes

Question 35

What is the reproductive system?

Answer 35

Facilitates the generation of new offspring and to pass on our genes

Question 36

What is the lymphatic system?

Answer 36

Involves the removal of interstitial fluid from tissues, the transport of absorbed fats after digestion, and protection

Question 37

What are the 3 circuits of the circulatory system?

Answer 37

pulmonary, coronary, and systemic

Question 38

What circuit carries blood between the heart and the lungs?

Answer 38

Pulmonary

Question 39

What circuit supplies blood to the muscles of the heart?

Answer 39

coronary

Question 40

What circuit carries blood to the rest of the body?

Answer 40

systemic