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Body Planes, Directions, Cavities, and Abdominal Regions
HS-EHS-2 Classify the basic structural and functional organization of the human body and identify body planes,
cavities, regions, directional terms, tissues, organs and parts of the cell.
Define the following terms. After defining all of the terms, make a life size sketch of your body
outlined in the anatomical position. Using this sketch (you may want to make additional) as a
map, label all of the following features on your illustration.
1. Identify the body planes: (15 points)
a. Transverse plane
b. Midsagittal or Median plane
c. Frontal or Coronal plane
2. Identify the directional terms: (20 points)
a. Superior
b. Inferior
c. Cranial
d. Caudal
e. Medial
f. Lateral
g. Ventral or Anterior
h. Dorsal or Posterior
i. Proximal
j. Distal
3. Identify the body cavities and list the organs found within each cavity: (30 points)
a. Dorsal
i. Cranial
ii. Spinal
b. Ventral
i. Thoracic
ii. Abdominopelvic
1. Abdominal
2. Pelvic
c. Orbital
d. Nasal
e. Buccal
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4. Identify the abdominal quadrants and the organs found within each quadrant: (25
points)
a. LUQ
b. LLQ
c. RUQ
d. RLQ
5. Identify the abdominal regions: (10 points)
a. –
b. –
c. –
d. –
e. –
f. –
g. –
h. –
i. -
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