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body planes
Imagina nary lines used to divide the body into sections. These planes are creitical for desccribing the eriotation
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06/17/2026

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Body Planes
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Imaginary lines used to divide theinto sections. These planes are crucial for describing the orientation of structures &for medical imaging
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Body Cavities
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Spaces within the body that houses and protects vitial organs.
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Directional Terms
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these terms are based on the standard anatomical postion.
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meiosis
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46 chromosomes, arrrranged in 23 pair. These include 22 pairs of autosomes (non-X-chromosomes) and 1 pair of sex chromosomes (xx in females+xy in males)
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Anatomical reference systems
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The Standardized framework for locating and describing body structures.
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Anatomical regions
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Divions of the abdomen and throrax which asst. in indentfing organ locatons and dianosing comditions.
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epithelial tissue
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Forms protective barriers, lines cavites, and in absorption and sereion
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connective tissue
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supports,binds, lines cavitirs, and aids in absorption and secrection
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muscle tissuo
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enables movement includes skeletal cardiac and smooth muscle
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nervous tissue
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Facilities communication and control through electrical impulse
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sagittal panes
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divids the body into left to right
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midsagittal plave
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also called the media plane this divides the body into equal left to right halfs along the middle
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Midsagittal plane
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divides the body into anterior Front posterior (back) sections. This plane is vertical and runs per pedicular to sagittal plane
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posterior Ante
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body movements
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ab-away
ad-near
addtion-movement toward the middle
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flexion and extention
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flexion-decreasing the angle betwwen to bones
extention-increasing the angle between 2 bones
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hyperextension
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extension beyond the normal range of motion
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elevation and depression
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raising a body part and muscles involved: depressor muscles
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rotation and circumduction
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turning bone around its axis circumdumcation;circumduction, circular motion cobinding flexion, extenion abduction
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right Hypochondic
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beneath the ribs on the upper right side origan's: liver right lobe gallbladder right kidney diaphragm
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epigastric
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central upper region above the stomach.
qrgans:spleen, stomach, left kidney, pancreas, diaphragm
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left hypochondriac
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beneath the ribs on the upper left side
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middle regions (lumbar and umbilical)
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near the lower back. organs: ascending colon, small intestine, right kidney
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umbilical
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central region around the navel. Organs: small intesines trasversal colen, pancreas ureters
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left lumbar
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middle left region near the lower back. organs: bladders sigmoid colon rectum, reproductive organs.
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adipose tissue (fat)
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store energy and insulating the body. Bone tissue supports protects the organs and store minrals.
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