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Use These Words: ventral anterior dorsal posterior superior cranial inferior caudal medial lateral proximal distal superficial deep Which of the terms of position and direction shown above best describes the relative positions of the following structures on your body? The position of your lungs relative to your heart The position of your wrist relative to your elbow The position of your abdominal cavity relative to you thoracic cavity The position of your skeletal muscles relative to your skin The position of your vertebral column relative to your thoracic cavity The position of your nose relative to your chin The position of your eye relative to your ear The position of your tailbone relative to the rest of your vertebral column The position of your mouth relative to your stomach The position of your sternum (breastbone) relative to your heart The position of your hip relative to your knee The position of your brain relative to your spinal cord Use These Words

Solution

1. ventral: the position of your abdominal cavity relative to your thoracic cavity

2. anterior: the position of your nose relative to your chin

3. dorsal: the position of your vertebral column relative to your thoracic cavity

4. posterior: the position of your sternum relative to your heart

5. superior: the position of your mouth relative to your stomach

6. cranial: the position of your brain relative to your spinal cord.

7. inferior: the position of your wrist relative to your elbow

8. caudal: the position of your tailbobe relative to the rest of your vertebral column

9. medial: he position of your lungs relative to your theart

10. lateral: the position of your eyes relative to your ears

11. superior: the position of your hip relative to your knee

12. deep: the position of your skeletal muscle relative to your skin

B. answer

1. sagittal: separating the two halves of the brain

2.Transverse: separating the abdominal cavity from throcic cavity

3. Frontal: separating the ventral body cavity from dorsal body cavity

4.Transverse: cutting the top of the skull to visualize the brain

5. Frontal: viewing th eheart and both lungs in the thoracic cavity

6. Frontal: viewing the internal structure of the knee joint from the side

7. Frontal: separating the anterior body surface from posterior body surface

8. Transverse : separating the superior structures from inferior structures

9. sagittal: separating medial stuctures from more lateral structures