Superior and inferior
Anterior and posterior
Medial, lateral, and intermediate Proximal and distal
Superficial and deep Superior and Inferior
Superior = Cranial so you are talking about your upper body. Superior because this is where the most important functions of your body are.
Inferior =caudal, so you are talking about your lower body away from your brain. Not many extremely important functions are done in the inferior portion of your body.
Anterior and posterior
Anterior= the front of your body. (ventral) A good example is your breastbone that is anterior to the spinal cord.
Prosterior= Behind your body. (Dorsal) The exact opposite of anterior.
Medial, lateral, and intermediate
Medial= as the name suggest, medial means toward the middle, such as your heart. It is near the middle of in-between your arms.
Lateral= I actually didn't know what this one meant. This one means away from your midline. Such as you stretch out your arms and that is a lateral position from your heart.
Intermediate= I always thought this was in-between the middle and the outside. Which sums up this position term. It is a in-between place of a lateral and medial position.
Proximal and distal
Proximal= is closer to the origin of the body part you start at.
Distal= is farther from the origin of the body part as which you start.
Superficial and deep
I know both of these well.
Superficial= shallow. you can see it on the surface. A superficial cut is a paper cut. Hardly bleeds and you can see the damage on top of your epidermal layer.
Deep= deep is well...deep. You can't see the whole cut as it goes into many layers of your epidermis and you can't always contain the bleeding and such.
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