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Anatomical Terms Review
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A test question you're likely to see is where a professor takes anatomical terms and directional terms and they put them together, and you need to know both to be able to answer the question. So we're going to practice those now. So first up, we have name 2 regions that are distal to the antecubital region. I'll give you a second to see if you can name 2 regions like that. Alright. Anticubital, that's the soft spar spot of your elbow or the front of your elbow there, And distal means further from the attachment point on a limb. So really distal to the antecubital region is going to be anywhere, you know, further down the arm in that region there. So there's a number of, regions that work. You could talk about the antebrachial, your forearm. You could talk about the carpal region, your wrist, manus, your hand, pollux, your thumb, digital, your fingers. I'll pick my favorite. I'll go with carpal and digital, but any of those regions that I just mentioned would work. Alright. The next one, you instruct a fellow student to look just lateral to the pubic region. Where are you looking? Alright. Give yourself a second. So the pubic region is the region that's in the area of the genitals. Lateral means towards the side or away from the midline of the body. So if you start at the pubic region and move laterally, the first thing you're gonna come to is the inguinal region, and the inguinal region is the groin. So the best answer here is gonna be inguinal. If you keep going laterally, you'll reach the coxal region, but, again, this question said, look just lateral. So usually, you wanna think of a thing that's the next thing you get to if it gives a question like that. Next, we have, during a dissection, you start your incision in the left superior abdominal region and cut towards the pelvic region. In what direction do you cut? Alright. I'll give you a second to think about that. Alright. Let's start with the abdominal region. So this is sort of the abdominal region, and left superior alright. Let's mark our left and right. So this is the body's left. This is the body's right. So left superior abdominal region is gonna be kinda up here, and we're gonna cut down towards the pelvic region. The pelvic region is we said is the region inside the pelvis, sort of this bowl here. So If we cut towards the middle of that, we're moving moving this way, that was sort of down and towards the middle down and towards the middle. We would use the terms inferior and medial. Alright. Last one. You have pain that is just distal to the popliteal region. What's another way to describe this location? Give you a second to think about that. Alright. Popliteal, I said my knee pops. It's the back of the knee. So a place that is distal to the back of the knee, we're going to go lower on the leg. And remember, we had those two terms that meant the area between the knee and the ankle. We had curl and surl. Curl started with c, so it means this entire region, and surl starts with s, so it comes second, and that meant just the back of the calf. So if you're going from the back of the knee, just distal, you're gonna get to the sural region. Alright. With that, we have a number of problems like this to practice some more below, and I'll see you there.
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If you have a pain that is just proximal to the metacarpals, where is it?
A
Carpal.
B
Antebrachial.
C
Olecranal.
D
Acromial.
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Problem
The vertebral region is medial to which other region?
A
Cervical
B
Sacral
C
Occipital
D
Lumbar
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During a dissection you are directed to start your incision in the popliteal region and cut distal to the popliteal until you reach the calcaneus. What region did you cut?
A
Gluteal
B
Femoral
C
Popliteal
D
Sural
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Problem
After running in high heels your fellow anatomy student complains of a pain just distal to the calcaneal region. What region is the pain coming from?
A
Hallux
B
Digital
C
Plantar
D
Carpal
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Problem
Which of the following statements is correct?
A
The orbital region is posterior to the occipital region.
B
The two otic regions are ipsilateral.
C
The sural region is ventral to the crural region.
D
The hallux is medial to the other digits.
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Which of the following statements is correct?
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The axillary nerves are lateral to the thoracic vertebrae.
B
The median sacral artery is found superior to the coxal bone.
C
The femur region is distal to the calcaneus.
D
To repair an inguinal hernia the incision would be medial to the pubis.
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