Medical Terms

The first few weeks of school is hard to get used to. All the homework you have to do and things you need to get learned isn't always easy. When we first got taught the medical terms, there was no way i was going to be able to remember all of them. But as we took notes and actually were able to learn it physically, it wasn't so hard after all. There are eleven directional terms when it comes to the human body and those include superior, inferior, anterior, posterior, medial, lateral, intermediate, proximal, distal, superficial, and deep. Superior is from the feet up, or the upper part of the body. Inferior, on the other hand, is the total opposite. So it means from the head down, or the lower part of the body. Anterior, also known as ventral, is the front of the body (infront of). And posterior, is the opposite again. This is behind the body. Medial is pretty easy because medial is middle. So this is the midline of the body. Lateral is going away from the midline. Intermediate is between a more medial and more lateral structure. An example of this would be the colloarbone which is intermediate between the breastbone and shoulder. Next is proximal. Proximal is the part that is closest to an attachment to the limb. An example of this would be the elbow being proximal to the wrist. The next is distal. Distal is farther from the attachment of a limb. An example is the knee being distal to the thigh. Superficial, also known as external, which is the toward or at the body surface. Finally the last one is deep, or internal. Which is away from the body surface.

Within our body direcional terms, we have planes. They include frontal, medial, and transverse. Frontal is the section through the torso. Transverse is the section through the torse, or the superior view. And the transverse plane is the midsagittal plane.