Anatomical Terms for the Back - Video Tutorials & Practice Problems
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The Back
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Next up, we have anatomical terms for the back of the trunk. Ok? Same disclaimer as always check your notes. Every anatomy class is a little bit different and you wanna make sure that you're learning the words that are gonna be on your test. Ok. First up, we have scapular scapular is the region of the shoulder blade and the scapula is the bone that is your shoulder blade. Now, both scapular and scapula come from the Latin meaning spade or shovel. Now, we don't know why it could be that a human scapula kind of looks like a small shovel or it could be that a very long time ago, people used animal bones as digging tools and a big old animal scapula would be a particularly good digging tool. We don't know what's right for our purposes. It doesn't matter. Scapular shoulder blade. Next, we have vertebra, vertebra is the spine and the spine is made up of bones. Those bones are called vertebrae. So the bones of the spine are vertebrae, the region of the spine is the vertebra region. Next, we have lumbar. This is one you may be familiar with. Lumbar is the lower back. If you ever bought an office chair, you wanna make sure you get an office chair with nice lumbar support because it's gonna support your lower back, lumbar lower back, moving down. We have gluteal gluteal is your glutes or your buttocks? Your gluteus, maximus is the big muscle in your rear end. So, gluteal glutes are buttocks. Next. We have metacarpal. Now, metacarpal isn't on the trunk, but in anatomical position, it's in the back. So we're gonna do it here. Metacarpal is the bones of the hand. The metacarpal region comes from two root words, meta means after and carpal means wrist. So we're gonna learn that the carpal region is your wrist region. If you go after the wrist, you reach the bones of the hand, metacarpal bones of the hand. Finally, on this side, we have perennial paranal is the small region between the anus and the genitals. Now, you may have a slang term that you use for this region. If it helps you remember it, I encourage you to link those two in your mind. For me, I like to remember it because paranal kind of sounds like peri anal and the perennial region is next to the anus. The the root word perry actually means near or around. So per anal would mean near the near the anus. That's not where perennial comes from, not where that word comes from, but it helped you remember it perennial, the small region between your anus and your genitals. Over here we have electron, electron is the back of the elbow. Now, of electron comes from two Greek words. First, we have Olene, which means elbow in Greek. And second, we have Ranian and Ranian means head. So if you look at the back of your elbow, right, you have that bump on there, that bone that sticks out, that's the head of your elbow. The head of your elbow would be the electron region, electron back of the elbow. Now, finally, here we have Sacre Sarel is gonna be the bottom of the spine. Your spine comes down to, to the sarum, the sarum meets up with the pelvis and that's what connects your pelvis to the spine. The Sarel region. Now, sacro and sac rum comes from the Latin meaning sacred. We're not exactly sure why it could be that an animal sacrifices this bone, the sacrum was considered particularly sacred. And so it is used there. I've also heard that when an uh skeleton decomposes the sacrum is the last bone to rot. I don't know if that's true. But if it is, people might think that that is a sacred bone. So the sacrum is a sacred bone, Sarel, the bottom of your spine. OK. That means we've learned eight more terms. We are on our way. I'll see you in the next video
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Anatomical Terms for the Back Example 1
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This example wants us to take those anatomical terms that we just learned and try to identify some very specific muscles or FASA in the body. Now, you probably know what muscles are. You may not know that fascia is connective tissue that surrounds muscles or connects muscles to other tissue in the body. You don't need to know that for this chapter, we'll learn all about it when we do muscles. Ok. First off, we have the gluteus maximus. Where might that be? Well, gluteus, gluteus is the gluteal region, the gluteal region or your gluteus maximus. That's the big old muscle of your rear end. We're gonna say it's in the buttocks. So the gluteus maximus, the big old muscle of your butt. Next, we have the transverse perennial muscle. Where may that be? All right? Transverse perennial, keyword, perennial. We said perennial was the small region between the anus and the genitals. So I'm just gonna write that between anus and genitals. Next up, we have the levi scapula, think where that may be. All right. Keyword there, scapula, scapula sounds like scapular scapular is the shoulder blade. Finally, we have what I think is a bit of a tricky one, the thoraco lumbar FASA. Where might that be? Ok. This word here actually has two roots in it. First, we have or second, what I see more easily. I see lumbar and lumbar. I know is the lower back. But we have the first part of the word and the first part of the word that thoraco that is going to refer to the thorax, the thoracic region, so lower back and thorax. So this is a whole bunch of FASA connective tissue that connects muscles to your spine in your back, the thoracolumbar FASA with that we have some more practice problems below. Give him a try.
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Using your anatomical terms and directions, where is your sacroiliac joint compared to your naval?
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Superior
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Inferior
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Proximal
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Distal
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Imagine you hit your funny bone. Which anatomical term describes where you hit your arm?
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Perineal
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Scapular
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Olecranal
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Sacral
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