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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 gonna practice those now. So first up, we have named two regions that are distal to the anti UBI region. I'll give you a second to see if you can name two regions like that. All right, anti cubital, that's the soft par 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 anti Ubi region is gonna be anywhere, you know, further down the arm in that region there. So there's a number of uh regions that work. You could talk about the anti brachial, your forearm, you could talk about the carpal region, your wrist, manus, your hand, pollock, your thumb, digital, your fingers. I'll pick my favorite. I'll go with purple and digital. But any of those regions that I just mentioned would work. All right. The next one you instruct a fellow student to look just lateral to the pubic region where are you looking? All right, 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 coal region. But again, this question said, look just lateral. So usually you want to think of a thing. That's the next thing you get to. If it, it gives a question like that. Next we have during that dissection, you start your incision in the left superior abdominal region and cut towards the pelvic region in what direction do you cut? All right. I'll give you a second to think about that. All right, let's start with the abdominal region. So this is sort of the abdominal region and left superior. All right. Let's mark our left and right. Uh So this is the body's left, this is the body's right. So left, superior abdominal region is gonna be kind of 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 media. All right, last one you have pain that is just distal to the POL region. What's another way to describe this location? Give you a second to think about that. All right, plate, 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 gonna 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 Cyl curl started with C so it means this entire region and Cyl 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 and get to the Cyril region. All right, 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?
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Carpal.
B
Antebrachial.
C
Olecranal.
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Acromial.
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Problem
The vertebral region is medial to which other region?
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Cervical
B
Sacral
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Occipital
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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?
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Gluteal
B
Femoral
C
Popliteal
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Sural
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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?
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Hallux
B
Digital
C
Plantar
D
Carpal
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Problem
Which of the following statements is correct?
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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.
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The hallux is medial to the other digits.
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Problem
Which of the following statements is correct?
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The axillary nerves are lateral to the thoracic vertebrae.
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The median sacral artery is found superior to the coxal bone.
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The femur region is distal to the calcaneus.
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To repair an inguinal hernia the incision would be medial to the pubis.
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