Lab 1 BIOD 151 anatomical position - ✔To stand erect with arms at the sides and palms of the hands turned forward sagittal plane - ✔divides body into left and right frontal plane - ✔Divides the body into front and back portions. transverse plane - ✔horizontal division of the body into upper and lower portions anterior - ✔front of the body posterior - ✔toward the back superior - ✔toward the head inferior - ✔away from the head medial - ✔toward the midline lateral - ✔away from the midline proximal - ✔Closer to the origin of the body part or the point of attachment of a limb to the body trunk distal - ✔farther from the origin of a body part or the point of attachment of a limb to the body trunk superficial - ✔near the surface deep - ✔away from the surface prone - ✔lying face down supine - ✔lying on the back axial region - ✔head, neck, trunk thoracic region - ✔chest area
abdominal region - ✔abdomen appendicular region - ✔upper and lower limbs brachium - ✔upper arm anti-brachium - ✔forearm carpus - ✔wrist manus - ✔hand digits - ✔fingers, toes thigh - ✔the part of the leg between the hip and the knee crus - ✔lower leg tarsus - ✔ankle pes - ✔foot dorsal cavity - ✔includes the cranial and spinal cavities. cranial cavity - ✔contains the brain spinal cavity - ✔contains the spinal cord meninges - ✔three protective membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord ventral cavity - ✔thoracic cavity and abdominopelvic cavity thoracic cavity - ✔contains heart and lungs mediastinum - ✔area between the lungs containing the heart, aorta, venae cavae, esophagus, and trachea pleural cavities - ✔contain the lungs pleura - ✔double-layered membrane surrounding each lung pleurisy - ✔inflammation of the pleura
pericardial cavity - ✔contains the heart pericardium - ✔Double-layered membrane surrounding the heart. abdominopelvic cavity - ✔abdominal cavity and pelvic cavity peritoneum - ✔Double-layered membrane surrounding the abdominal organs peritoneal cavity - ✔space between the parietal and visceral peritoneum retroperitoneal - ✔located behind the peritoneum microscope base - ✔the portion of the microscope that rests on the table and supports the microscope microscope arm - ✔the portion of the microscope that connects the lenses to the base microscope diaphragm - ✔part of the microscope that controls the amount of light to the object being viewed microscope stage - ✔a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination mechanical stage control - ✔allows precise movement of the slide microscope nose piece - ✔revolving plate, holing lenses microscope objectives - ✔Individual lens attached to the revolving nose piece course and fine adjustment knobs - ✔the knobs located on either side of the stage that are used to move the stage in order to bring the specimen into focus microscope ocular - ✔eyepiece