In (a)–(e), a directional term [e.g., distal in (a)] is followed by terms indicating different body structures or locations (e.g., the elbow/the wrist). In each case, choose the structure or organ that matches the given directional term. a. distal: the elbow/the wrist, b. lateral: the hip bone/the umbilicus, c. superior: the nose/the chin, d. anterior: the toes/the heel, e. superficial: the scalp/the skull

Video transcript

Hello, everyone and welcome to today's video. So, anatomical terms refer to the standardized language used by anatomist to accurately describe and communicate the location and relationships of body structures. So which of the following terms is not correctly matched with its description? So we're going to go over answer choices A through e in order to solve this problem, let's begin by answer choices A and B anterior and posterior. And these are two opposite terms that are going to be referring to the front and the back of the body. In this case, an interior does refer to the front, the interior does refer to the back, these are correctly matched. So we're going to cancel them out. Then we have C dorsal refers to the back side of the body. This is also going to be correctly matched. As dorsal is going to be referring to the back side of the body. Then we have the ventral refers to the side of the body. Well, not really ventral is going to be referring to the front side of the body, just like dorsal is going to be referring to the back side of the body. These are also these opposite terms. So we're going to be writing that down, that ventral refers to the front side of the body. If we wanted to refer to this side of the body, we could use lateral. But this is not what is written in the question. Therefore, this is incorrectly matched, moving on, we have it, which is me refers to the middle of the body. So this media is going to be this line that is going to be intersecting down a person in the middle of their body. And this is just what we're what we're just drawing here in the screen, we're writing a stick figure being intersected by this medial line. This is correctly matched and therefore, we're also going to be canceling it up. So the only match or the only pair that we were not able to cancel out is going to be the ventral refers to the side of the body. This is going to be incorrectly matched and therefore it's going to be the final answer to our question. I really hope it's helped and I hope to see you on the next video.