Medical Terms
Across
- 3. lying on your belly;face-down (head turned to side)
- 4. lying on your back, face up
- 6. above
- 8. standing tall
- 9. backside
- 11. towards the sides
- 16. front side
- 17. lying on your side;top arm and leg are at 90 degree angle
- 20. knees pulled up to chest
- 21. vertical line down body
- 22. vertical line down midline
- 24. farther from origin/P.O.A.
- 25. near the head
Down
- 1. HOB elevated
- 2. backside
- 5. below
- 7. closer to origin/point of attachment on body
- 10. patient laying on their side, bottom-up
- 12. towards midline of body
- 13. cavity that only hold the heart; under breastbone (sternum)
- 14. the front side
- 15. skull
- 18. cavity holds only the lungs; sac containing lungs is the pleura
- 19. near the tail-end
- 23. horizontal line divides body to top and bottom halves