Alright. Here we go with anatomical terms for the head and neck. Just a quick reminder before we get going, the list of terms that you need to know for your class may be slightly different than the list that we're going to go over, so always double check your notes to make sure you're studying the right stuff. As we go through, I'll say the term, and I'll say what it means.
That's the information you really need to know. I'll also give a little bit of information that helps me remember it. If that helps you remember it, wonderful, but just remember that extra bit of information you're not going to need for your test. Alright, here we go. First off, we have frontal.
Frontal is going to be the forehead. Now that's pretty straightforward, right? Your forehead is the front of your head, so your forehead is the frontal region. Next, we have orbital. Orbital is the eye.
So when you think of the eye, the eye is sort of like a circular socket in your head and orbits, right, as a planet orbits, it moves in a circular motion. Well technically, if you know your physics, it's an elliptical motion, but that's alright. It's a circular motion, so orbital eye. Next, we have mental. Mental is going to be your chin.
Now this one hangs people up sometimes, right, because when you think of mental, you think of things like thoughts, you think of your mind. Well, that's because these words came from Latin, and there are actually two Latin words that came into English and became mental in English. Those words are first mentum. Mentum in Latin means your chin. That's the one we're worried about.
There's also a word in Latin mens, and mens means mind. So when these words came to English, they both became mental. Now we have confusion. Just remember, mental your mind that's psychology. We don't do your mind in anatomy and physiology.
In anatomy, we talk about your chin. So chin mental. Next, we have OTIC. OTIC is your ear. I wish I had a good memory tool for OTIC because it's one that always hung me up.
It was hard for me to learn. I don't really have any good memory tool for it. Otic is just comes from the Greek for ear, so ear otic otic ear. Next, we have nasal. Nasal means nose.
I bet you already know that one, so I'm not going to spend any time on it. After that, we have buccal. Buccal is your cheek. I always remember buccal because I think of a buccal swab. So that's probably because I've worked in science labs, but if you take a buccal swab, you take a q-tip or a toothpick, and you just rub the inside of your cheek to get a little bit of sample tissue.
You may know buccal because apparently buccal fat removal is the new hot Hollywood plastic surgery trend. If that helps you remember it, great. Buccal cheek. Finally, on this side, we have oral mouth. Again, that's one I bet you know, so I'm not going to spend any more time on it.
Oral mouth. Going down here to the bottom, we have cephalic. Cephalic is head, and when we say, head, we mean the whole head. You can see this bracket here showing the whole thing. So really anywhere on your head is part of the cephalic region.
Moving down, we have occipital. Occipital is the back of the head, and if you have any prior knowledge of anatomy, you may know that the bone in the back of your head is the occipital bone. The lobe of the brain that's in the back of the brain is the occipital lobe of the brain. So occipital, back of the head. And then finally on this slide, we have cervical.
Cervical is going to be neck. All right. Cervical comes from the word cervix in Latin, and some people ask why is the part of the female anatomy cervix if the cervical region is the neck? Well in the uterus, the cervix is sort of considered the neck of the uterus. In the uterus, you have sort of this round shape and then there's a protrusion that comes downward.
That protrusion is the cervix. So cervical always refers to neck anywhere on the body. So cervical, neck. With that, we have 10 terms down. We'll see you in the next video.
