The Language of Anatomy

Lab Safety
Lab Exercise 1 p. 1-6 Activities 1-3, 5
Lab Exercise 2 p. 15 Activity 6
 Objectives
1. Understand the rules for safe, careful use of the lab
and its equipment
2. Define anatomical position
3. Use anatomical terms correctly
4. Identify anatomical planes in illustrations from the
book
5. Locate the major body cavities and regions on a
model and on other students
6. Utilize directional terms in describing where body
parts may be found in relation to one another
7. Recognize the eleven body systems and their parts
and functions
 Activity 1
Gross Anatomy-the study of body structures you
can see with your naked eye
Anatomical position-body erect, head and toes
pointed forward, arms hanging and the sides
with palms facing forward
• Abdominal Terms to Know • Manus
• Antecubital • Nasal
• Axillary
Body Landmarks (Act. 2) • Occipital
• Brachial • Oral
• Buccal • Orbital
• Carpal • Patellar
• Cephalic • Pelvic
• Cervical • Popliteal
• Coxal • Pubic
• Deltoid • Sacral
• Digital • Scapular
• Femoral • Sternal
• Fibular • Sural
• Gluteal • Tarsal
• Inguinal • Thoracic
• Lumbar • Umbilical
• Mammary • Vertebral
 Terms to Know
(Activity 3)
Body orientation and direction: Body planes and sections:
• Superior/inferior • Frontal (coronal)
• Cephalad
(cranial)/caudal • Transverse
• Ventral/dorsal
(horizontal)
• Anterior/posterior • Sagittal
• Lateral/Medial – Median or midsagittal
• Proximal/distal
• Superficial/deep
• Practice on page 2-3
Terms to know (Use torso models for Activity 5)
Body cavities (and organs found within them):
• Dorsal
– Cranial cavity
– Spinal cavity
• Ventral
– Thoracic cavity
• Pleural cavity
• Mediastinum
• Pericardial cavity
– Abdominopelvic cavity
• Abdominal cavity
• Pelvic cavity
 Terms to Know
Abdominopelvic quadrants (and organs found in each region):

• Right upper
• Right lower
• Left upper
• Left lower
 Terms to know (Activity 5)
Nine abdominopelvic regions (and organs in each regions):

• Right hypochondriac
• Epigastric
• Left hypochondriac
• Right lumbar
• Umbilical
• Left lumbar
• Right iliac (inguinal)
• Hypogastric
• Left iliac (inguinal)
 Organ Systems and Organs
Activity 6 p. 15-16
• Identify the organs of each organ system using
the torso model at your table.
• Identify organs on page 15, assign to correct
organ system on page 16.
 To Review
• Complete pages 7-8 all
• Complete page 16 all
• Complete pages 17-18 all

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