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19 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Anatomical Position
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Body erect, feet parallel & flat, eyes forward, arms @ sides, palms forward, fingers down.
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Frontal/Coronal
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divide front/back
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Sagital
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divides left/right does not have to be middle
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Midsaggittal
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Dead Center
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Parasagittal
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misses midline, separating right and left portions of unequal size
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Oblique
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diagonally
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Superior/Cranial/Cephalic
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on top of
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Inferior/caudal
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toward the bottom
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Anterior or Ventral
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front of body
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posterior or dorsal
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back of body
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medial
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toward the middle
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lateral
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away from the middle
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internal or deep
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away from the surface, closer to the inside
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external or superficial
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closer to the surface
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proximal
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appendages only closer to the base
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Distal
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Appendages only further away from base
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Median or intermidiate
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in between
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contralateral
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opposite side of the body
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ipsilateral
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same side of body
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