Anatomy Lecture 1 - Anatomical Terminology

Standing erect, with head, eyes and toes directly anterior. Arms at the side with palms facing anterior, lower limbs together with toes pointing anteriorly.

Lines passing through the body parallel to the median plane. The plane passing directly through the middle of the body is the midsaggital plane. Sagittal planes divide the body into left and right sides

Also called the frontal plane. Vertical plane passing through the body perpendicular to the sagittal plane. These planes divide the body into anterior nad posterior sections.

Also the horisontal plane. Refers to imaginary planes passing through the body perpendicular to the coronal and sagittal planes. Divides the body into superior and inferior parts.

Near the front

Near the back

Nearer to the head

Nearer to the feet

Farther from the median plane

Nearer to the median plane

Nearer to the trunk or point of origin

Farther from the trunk of point of origin

Nearer to the surface

Between a superficial and deep structure

Farther from the surface

Bending or decreasing the angle between the bones or parts of the body

Straightening of increasing the anlge of the joint

Moving away from the median plane in the coronal plane

Moving towards the median plane in the coronal plane

Revolving of turning a part about its longitudinal axis

Also called internal rotation. Brings the anterior surface of a limb closer to the median plane.

Also called External rotation. Takes the anterior surface away from the median plane.

Circular motion that incorporates flexion, extension, abduction, and adduction in such a way that the distal end of a segment moves in a circle.

Movement by which the pad of the 1st digit (thumb) is brought to another digit's pad.

Movement anterior, as in the case of the mandible

Also used to describe anterior movements, usually associated with the shoulder (scapula).

Posterior movement, usually associated with the shoulder (scapula)

Raising or moving a part superiorly

Lowers or moves a part inferiorly

Moves the sole of the foot awat from the median plane.

Moves the sole of the foot toward the median plane

• Hand - medial rotation of the forearm
• Foot - combination of eversion and abduction

• Hand - lateral rotation of the forearm
• Foot - combination of inversion and adduction

epithelium, connective, muscle, and nerve

• 1. Simple - easy diffusion (mouth and lungs)
• 2. Stratified
• 3. Mucous membranes
• 4. Serous Membranes (secrete)

A cell that helps to form connective tissue

• 1. Blood Plasma
• 2. Adipose Tissue (fat)
• 3. Tendon
• 4. Ligaments
• 5. Cartilage
• 6. Bone

• 1. the intercellular substance of a tissue
• or the tissue from which a structure develops.
• 2. groundwork; the base in which or from which a
• thing develops.

They are contractible.

• 1. Skeletal
• 2. Smooth
• 3. Cardiac

It is excitable.

Cell bodies for the motor efferent spinal nerves.

The interconnecting fiber tract systems in the spinal cord. Myelinated nerve fibers.

Nucleus, cytoplasm, cell body, dendrite, axon, axon Hillock, myelinated sheaths, Node of Ranvier, terminal branches