Lab Practicum 1: Directional Terminology

• What is another word for posterior when referring to skull?

  Caudal
• What is another word for anterior when referring to skull?

  Rostral
• What is another word for anterior?

  Ventral
• What is another word for superior?

  Cranial
• What type of movement is allowed in the transverse/axial plane?

  Rotation:

  External/internal

  Right/left

  Supination/pronation

  Horizontal abudction/adduction (arms and legs)
• What type of movement is allowed in the frontal/coronal plane?

  Adduction/abduction

  Eversion/inversion (foot)

  Lateral flexion/lateral tilt

  Radial deviation/ulnar deviation (lateral flexion of wrist)
• What type of movement is allowed in the sagittal plane?

  Extension/flexion

  Dorsiflexion/plantar flexion (foot/ankle)

  Anterior/posterior pelvic tilt
• How are you looking at someone to see transverse movement?

  Bird's eye or from below
• What is the transverse plane?

  Top/bottom halves
• How are you looking at someone to see frontal movement?

  From the front or back
• What is the frontal plane?

  front/black halves
• How are you looking at someone to see sagittal movement?

  From the side
• What is the sagittal plane?

  left/right halves
• How is the axis oriented to the plane of movement?

  Perpendicular to it
• What is an axis?


  The imaginary or real line around which movement takes place
• Oral


  mouth
• Frontal

  forehead
• Sternal


  middle of chest/sternum
• Axillary


  armpit
• Umbilical


  Belly button
• Inguinal


  groin
• Hallux


  big toe
• Plantar


  sole of foot
• Metatarsal


  toes (top side)
• Calcaneal


  heel
• Pedal

  foot
• Fibular/peroneal


  lateral side of leg
• Sural


  calf
• Crural


  leg
• Patellar


  knee
• Olecranal


  back of elbow
• Femoral


  thigh
• Popliteal


  back of knee
• Digital


  finger/toe
• palmar


  palm
• metacarpal


  fingers (backside)
• Manus


  hand
• Pollex


  Thumb
• Antecubital

  front of elbow
• Acromial

  Top/front of shoulder