The Body’s Cavities, Planes, Sections and Areas

Question 1

What are the two major cavities of the body?

Answer 1

The dorsal cavity and the Ventral cavity

Question 2

What direction is the dorsal cavity?

Answer 2

The dorsal cavity is the posterior(back)view of the body

Question 3

What direction is the ventral cavity of the body?

Answer 3

The ventral cavity is the anterior(front) view of the body.

Question 4

What cavities does the dorsal cavity include?

Answer 4

The cranial cavity and the spinal cavity

Question 5

What organs are in the cranial cavity?

Answer 5

The skull and the brain

Question 6

What organs are in the spinal cavity?

Answer 6

The spine and the spinal cord

Question 7

What membranes line the dorsal cavity systems?

Answer 7

Membranes called meninges

Question 8

What are the two cavities that make up the ventral cavity?

Answer 8

The thoracic cavity and the abdominal cavity

Question 9

What organ divides the thoracic and abdominal cavities?

Answer 9

The diaphragm

Question 10

What cavity is located in the abdominal cavity?

Answer 10

The pelvic cavity

Question 11

What are the organs in the thoracic cavity?

Answer 11

The heart and the lungs

Question 12

What membranes are the organs of the thoracic cavity covered in?

Answer 12

They are covered in pleural membranes

Question 13

What type of pleural membranes cover the chest?

Answer 13

The parietal membranes

Question 14

What type of pleural membranes cover the lungs?

Answer 14

The visceral pleural membranes

Question 15

What type of pleural membranes cover the heart?

Answer 15

The pericardial pleural membranes

Question 16

Inside the heart, what two pleural membranes are available and what are they called?

Answer 16

Within the heart are both parietal and visceral membranes and they are called serous membranes

Question 17

What does serous membranes mean?

Answer 17

It means they cover organs

Question 18

What organs are located in the abdominal cavity?

Answer 18

The liver, the stomach and the intestines

Question 19

What are the two types of serous membranes in the abdominal cavity?

Answer 19

Peritoneum and mesentery

Question 20

Which type of serous membranes line the abdominal cavity?

Answer 20

The peritoneum

Question 21

What are the outer surfaces of the organs located in the abdominal cavity covered by?

Answer 21

Mesentery membranes

Question 22

Where is the pelvic cavity located?

Answer 22

Below the abdominal cavity

Question 23

What pleural membrane is located in the abdominal cavity?

Answer 23

The peritoneum, it covers some of the surfaces of the pelvic organs

Question 24

What organs are located in the pelvic cavity?

Answer 24

Reproductive organs and urinary organs

Question 25

What does the body area Axillary refer to?

Answer 25

Armpit

Question 26

What does the body area Brachial refer to?

Answer 26

Upper Arm

Question 27

What does the body area Buccal refer to?

Answer 27

Mouth

Question 28

What does the body area Cardiac refer to?

Answer 28

Heart

Question 29

What does the body area Cervical refer to?

Answer 29

Neck

Question 30

What does the body area Cranial refer to?

Answer 30

Head

Question 31

What does the body area Cutaneous refer to?

Answer 31

Skin

Question 32

What does the body area Deltoid refer to?

Answer 32

Shoulder

Question 33

What does the body area Femoral refer to?

Answer 33

Thigh

Question 34

What does the body area Frontal refer to?

Answer 34

Forehead

Question 35

What does the body area Gastric refer to?

Answer 35

Stomach

Question 36

What does the body area Gluteal refer to?

Answer 36

Buttocks

Question 37

What does the body area Hepatic refer to?

Answer 37

Liver

Question 38

What does the body area Iliac refer to?

Answer 38

Hip

Question 39

What does the body area Lumbar refer to?

Answer 39

Small area of the lower back

Question 40

What does the body area Mammary refer to?

Answer 40

Breast

Question 41

What does the body area Nasal refer to?

Answer 41

Nose

Question 42

What does the body area Occipital refer to?

Answer 42

Back of head

Question 43

What does the body area Orbital refer to?

Answer 43

Eye

Question 44

What does the body area Parietal refer to?

Answer 44

Crown of head

Question 45

What does the body area Patellar refer to?

Answer 45

Kneecap

Question 46

What does the body area Pectoral refer to?

Answer 46

Chest

Question 47

What does the body area Pectoral refer to?

Answer 47

Chest

Question 48

What does the body area Plantar refer to?

Answer 48

Sole of the foot

Question 49

What does the body area Pulmonary refer to?

Answer 49

Lungs

Question 50

What does the body area Renal refer to?

Answer 50

Kidney

Question 51

What does the body area Sacral refer to?

Answer 51

Spine base

Question 52

What does the body area Temporal refer to?

Answer 52

Side of head

Question 53

What does the body area Umbilical refer to?

Answer 53

Navel

Question 54

What does the body location superior refer to?

Answer 54

Above, higher

Question 55

What does the body location inferior refer to?

Answer 55

Lower, below

Question 56

What does the body location anterior refer to?

Answer 56

Towards the front of the body(chest)

Question 57

What does the body location posterior refer to?

Answer 57

Towards the back of the body(lumbar)

Question 58

What does the body location ventral refer to?

Answer 58

Towards the front of the body(breasts, mammary glands)

Question 59

What does the body location dorsal refer to?

Answer 59

Towards the back of the body(buttocks)

Question 60

What does the body location medial refer to?

Answer 60

Towards the body’s midline(lungs)

Question 61

What does the body location lateral refer to?

Answer 61

Facing away from the midline(shoulders, in comparison to the neck)

Question 62

What does the body location internal refer to?

Answer 62

Within(brain in the skull)

Question 63

What does the body location external refer to?

Answer 63

Outside(ribs are located outside the lungs)

Question 64

What does the body location superficial refer to?

Answer 64

Towards the bodies surface(skin)

Question 65

What does the body location Deep refer to?

Answer 65

Within(various vein systems)

Question 66

What does the body location central refer to?

Answer 66

Primary portion of the body(brain in relation to the nervous system)

Question 67

What does the body location peripheral refer to?

Answer 67

Rooted in the main part of the body and extending outward(nerves in the arms, legs, and face)

Question 68

What does the body location Proximal refer to?

Answer 68

Near the origin(knee, in relation to foot)

Question 69

What does the body location distal refer to?

Answer 69

Removed from the origin (bicep in relation to hand)

Question 70

What does the body location parietal refer to?

Answer 70

Related to the cavity walls (membranes that line the chest cavity)

Question 71

What does the body location visceral refer to?

Answer 71

Related to the organs within a cavity (membranes that cover the lungs)

Question 72

What are the theee primary planes of the body?

Answer 72

Median sagittal, transverse and frontal

Question 73

How does the median sagittal plane divide the body?

Answer 73

It divides the body into left and right

Question 74

How does the transverse plane divide the body?

Answer 74

It is divided into upper and lower sections

Question 75

How does the frontal/coronal plane divide the body?

Answer 75

Divides the body into dorsal and ventral (back and front)

Question 76

What are the four main areas of the abdomen?

Answer 76

Right upper quadrant, left upper quadrant, left lower quadrant and right lower quadrant

Question 77

What are the nine sub regions of the abdomen?

Answer 77

Right: right hypochondriac region, right lumbar region and right iliac region Middle: epigastric region, umbilical region and hypogastric region Left: left hypochondriac region, left lumbar region and left iliac region