anatomy directional terms
Terms
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- deep
- more internal (not superficial)
- inferior
- away from head
- interior
- front of body
- posterior
- back of body (dorsal)
- medial
- towards midline of body
- lateral
- away from midline of body
- intermediate
- between medial and lateral
- proximal
- point of origin
- distal
- farther from the origin of a body part or part of attatchment of a limb to the body trunk.
- superficial
- toward the surface (not deep)
- superior
- towards the head