anatomical orientation
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jamesrobey on September 19, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Superior | Toward head or upper end |
| Inferior | toward the feat |
| anterior | front of belly side |
| Posterior | backside |
| Medial | toward the midline |
| Lateral | to the side away from midline |
| proximal | toward the attatchment to the trunk |
| distal | away from the attachment to trunk |
| superficail | towards the surface of body |
| deep | internal, away from surface of body |
| parietal | toward the body wall |
| viceral | attachted to an organ |
| ispsilateral | same side |
| contralateral | different side |
| sagital | line splitting body from head to toe, two half symetrical |
| transverse | superior, inferior |
| frontal coronal | body cut from head to toe from side. |
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