A&P Directional Terms
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- ANATOMICAL POSITION
- PERSON STANDING ERECT FACING FORWARD, PALMES FACING FORWARD
- PLANES
- FLAST SURFACE DIVIDING A BODY INTO HALVES
- MIDLINE
- CENTER OF BAKY, BETWEENEYES, EXTENDING THRU UMBILICUS, CREATES LEFT AND RIGHT HALVES
- MEDIAL
- POSITION CLOSE TO THE MIDLINE
- LATERAL
- POSITION FURTHER AWAY FROM THE MIDLINE
- BILATERAL
- REFERS TO BOTH SIDES OF THE BODY
- MID-AXILLARY LINE
- VERTICALLY FROM MID ARMPIT TO THE ANKLE CREATES FRONT AND BACK HALVES
- ANTERIOR
- FRONT HALF ALSO REFERRED TO AS DORSAL
- SUPERIOR
- ABOVE
- INFERIOR
- BELOW
- PROXIMAL
- CLOSER TO THE TORSO
- DISTAL
- FARTHER AWAY FROM THE TROSO
- PALMAR
- PALM OF THE HAND
- PLANTAR
- SOLE OF THE FOOT
- MID CLAVICULAR LINE
- RUNS THRU THE CENTER OF THE CLAVICLE AND THE NIPPLE BELOW
- UPPER LEFT QUAD
- STOMACH, SPLEEN, PORTION OF THE COLON, SMALL INTESTINE
- RIGHT UPPER QUAD
- LIVER,GALL BLADDER, PORTION OF THE COLON, SMALL INTESTINE
- RIGHT LOWER QUAD
- SMALL INTESTINE LARGE INTESTINE APPENDIX
- LEFT LOWER QUAD
- SMALL INTESTINE LARGE INTESTINE
- SUPINE
- LYING ON BACK
- PRONE
- LYING ON ABDOMEN
- FOWLERS POSITION
- SEATED POSITION 45-60 DEGREE ANGLE LEGS MAY BE STRAIGHT OUT OR BENT
- SEMI-FOWLER'S POSITION
- SEMI-SITTING POSITIOIN
- TRENDELENBURG POSITION
- PT. LYING WITH HEAD SLIGHTLY LOWER THAN FEET
- MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM- COMPONENTS
- BONES, MUSCLES, LIGAMENT, TENDONS,
- LIGAMENTS
- BONE TO BONE
- TENDONS
- MUSCLE TO BONE
- MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM- FUNCTIONS
- GIVES BODY SHAPE, PROTECTS VITAL INTERNAL ORGANS. PORVIDES FOR BODY MONVMENT
- CERVICAL SPINE
- NECK
- THORACIC SPINE
- CHEST. RIBS ATTACH POSTERIORLY
- LUMBAR SPINE
- MID BACK
- SACRAL SPINE
- SACRUM
- COCCYX
- TAILBONE
- THORACIC CAVITY
- FORMED BY BONES, CONTAINS HEART, LUNGS, MAJOR BLOOD VESSELS
- LATERAL MALLEOLUS
- DISTAL END OF FIBULA
- MEDIAL MALLEOLUS
- DISTAL END OF TIBIA
- TARSALS
- ANKLE
- METATARSALS
- FOOT
- CALCANOUS
- HEEL
- PHALANGES
- FINGERS
- ACROMION PORCESS
- HIGHEST PORTION OF THE SHOULDER
- HUMERUS
- UPPER ARM
- RADIUS
- FORARM
- ULNA
- FOREARM
- CARPALS
- WRIST
- METACARPALS
- HAND