Medical Terms

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Across
  1. 1. Near the head-end (cephal= head)
  2. 5. Lying on your belly; face-down (head often turned to the side)
  3. 7. (position) standing tall
  4. 11. Farther away from origin/ P.O.A.
  5. 13. Position Patient lying on their side
  6. 16. plane Horizontal line divides body into top and bottom halves
  7. 18. plane vertical line down midline; separates body into LT/RT halves
  8. 19. skull
  9. 20. position Lying on your side; Top arm and leg are at 90 degree angle
  10. 22. Position HOB (head of bed) elevated
  11. 24. (anter-) located at or toward the front of the body or a structure.
Down
  1. 2. Towards the sides; away from the midline.
  2. 3. Position Knees pulled up to chest, bottom-up
  3. 4. plane vertical line down body; not = halves
  4. 6. Cavity that only holds the heart; under the breastbone (sternum)
  5. 8. coronal, ventral Anatomical terms used to describe the positions and sections of the body.
  6. 9. near the tail-end
  7. 10. cavity Holds only the lungs; sac containing lungs is the pleura
  8. 12. below
  9. 14. Toward the midline of the body
  10. 15. situated behind or toward the back of a body object, or sequence.
  11. 17. Position Lying on you back, face up
  12. 21. Closer to point of origin/point of attachment on body
  13. 23. above