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Directional Terms
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- Supine
- Body lying horizontally; face UPWARD
- Inferior
- Away from the head end or toward the lower part of a structure or the body, below
- Superficial
- Toward or at the body surface
- Superior
- Toward the head end or upper part of a structure of the body, above
- Dorsal
- Of the back
- Proximal
- Closer to the origin of the body part of the point of attachement of a limb to the body trunk
- Medial
- Toward or at the midline of the body, on the inner side of
- Transverse plane
- Plane that divides body into top and bottom
- Posterior
- Toward or at the back of the body, behind
- Intermediate
- Between a more medial and a more lateral structure
- Sagittal plane
- Plane that divides body into left and right
- Ventral
- Of the belly
- Distal
- Farther from the origin of a body part or the point of attachment of a limb to the body trunk
- Contralateral
- Opposite - situated on opposite side of body
- Deep
- Away from the body surface; more internal
- caudal
- Toward the tail
- Ipsilateral
- Situated on same side
- Coronal plane
- Also known as Frontal plane
- cranial
- Toward the head
- Prone
- Body lying horizontally; face DOWNWARD
- Lateral
- Away from the midline of the body; on the outer side
- Frontal plane
- Plane that divides body into front and back
- Anterior
- Toward or at the front of the body, in front of