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Anatomical Terms: Dorsal, Ventral, Medial, Lateral, Proximal, Distal, and Planes, Quizzes of Veterinary medicine

Vol State Community College Veterinary medicine

Definitions for various anatomical terms related to body position and planes, including dorsal, ventral, medial, lateral, proximal, distal, cranial, caudal, rostral, and sagittal, median, and transverse planes.

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TERM 1

Individual's left

DEFINITION 1

left

TERM 2

individual's right

DEFINITION 2

Right

TERM 3

Toward the head end of the body

DEFINITION 3

cranial

TERM 4

Toward the tip of the nose (head only)

DEFINITION 4

Rostral

TERM 5

Toward the tail end of the body

DEFINITION 5

Caudal

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Individual's left

left

TERM 2

individual's right

DEFINITION 2

Right

TERM 3

Toward the head end of the body

DEFINITION 3

cranial

TERM 4

Toward the tip of the nose (head only)

DEFINITION 4

Rostral

TERM 5

Toward the tail end of the body

DEFINITION 5

Caudal

Toward the back

dorsal

TERM 7

Toward the belly

DEFINITION 7

Ventral

TERM 8

Toward the median plan

DEFINITION 8

Medial

TERM 9

Toward the center (whole body or

part)

DEFINITION 9

Deep (internal)

TERM 10

Away form the median plane

DEFINITION 10

lateral

"Front" of forelimb and hindlimb distal to

carpus and tarsus

Dorsal

TERM 17

Sagittal plane

DEFINITION 17

A plane that runs the length of the body and divides it into

left and right parts that are not necessarily equal halves.

TERM 18

Median plane

DEFINITION 18

A special kind of safittal plane that runs down the center of

the body lengthwise and divides it into equal left and right

halves. It is also known as a midsagittal plane

TERM 19

Transverse plane

DEFINITION 19

a plane across the b ody that divides it into cranial ( head-

end) and caudal (tail-end) parts that are not necessarily

equal.

TERM 20

Dorsal Plane

DEFINITION 20

A plane at right angles to the sagittal and transverse planes.

It divides the body into dorsal ( toward the back) and ventral

(toward the belly) parts that are not necessarily equal. if an

animal stands in water with its body partially submerged, the

surface of the water descrbes a dorsal plane. In humans this

plane is called the frontal plane