Question

Describe how someone is sitting next to you using 5 of the directional terms below...
Abduction/Adduction
Medial/Lateral
Superior/Inferior
Proximal/Distal
Anterior/Posterior
Parietal/Visceral
Prone/Supine
Inversion/Eversion
Palmar/Plantar

2. Describe the sitting position in the opposite .

Answer 1

1)- Adduction is the movement of a body part towards the body's midline. so, if a person has their arms straight out at the shoulders and brings them down to their sides, it is adduction. For fingers or toes, adduction brings the digits towards the center of the hand or foot. For example, if a person has their fingers spread wide apart, bringing them together would be adduction. Adduction of the wrist, moving a hand toward the body at the wrist when that arm is at the person's side, is also called ulnar deviation. Any muscle that creates this type of motion is called an adductor.

Abduction is any motion of the limbs or other body parts that pulls away from the midline of the body. Swinging the hands from the side of the body up to the shoulder or higher is abduction. For fingers and toes, abduction spreads the digits away from the hand or foot’s centerline of hand or foot. Raising the arms laterally, to the sides and moving the knees away from the midline are some examples of abduction. Abduction of the wrist, moving the hand away from the body at the wrist when that arm is at the person’s side, is called radial deviation. Any muscle that creates this type of motion is termed an abductor.

2)- Medial refers to being towards the midline of the body or the median plane, which splits the body, head-to-toe, into two halves, the left and right.

  Lateral is the side of the body or part of the body or part of the body that is away from the middle. So arms are lateral to the torso while the torso is medial to the arms.

3)- Superior is used to refer to what is above something. For example, in the anatomical position, the most superior part of the body is the head.

  Inferior is used to refer something below to superior. For example, the most inferior part of our body is feet.

4)-  Proximal and distal: These two terms are almost always used in reference to relative locations of parts or places on the limbs. Proximal then refers to something closer to the torso while distal refers to parts and places away from the torso. So a finger is distal to the wrist, which is distal to the elbow, which is distal to the shoulder. Or, similarly, the femur is proximal to the knee, which is proximal to the ankle, which is proximal to the toes.

5)-  Anterior describes the front or direction toward the front of the body. For example, the toes are anterior to the foot

Posterior describes the back or direction toward the back of the body. The popliteus is posterior to the foot.

6)- Visceral is one of the two layers of the serous membrane, covering the organs.

  Parietal is the second layer of the serous membrane, lining the walls of the body cavity.

7)- Prone Position is a body position in which the person lies flat with the chest down and the back up. In anatomical terms of location, the dorsal side is up, and the ventral side is down.

Supine position means lying horizontally with the face and torso facing up, as opposed to the prone position.

8)- Inversion refers to movements that tilt the sole of the foot towards the midline of the body

  Eversion refers to movements that tilt the sole of the foot away from the midline of the body.

9)- Palmar of the hands corresponds to the palm of the hand

Plantar refers to sole of the foot.