1. Body Planes
body planes demo

2. Name the planes in these figures:

3. Name the planes in these figures:
How would you name them? Which is the front?

4. Body Planes

5. Body Planes
Mid-sagittal or
Midline

6. Body Planes
Mid-sagittal or
Midline
Coronal or
Frontal

7. Body Planes Mid-sagittal or Midline Coronal or Frontal Transverse or
Horizontal

8. Directional Terms:

9. Planes and directional terms:

10. Translate between medical and layman’s terms
Frontal plane = Coronal plane
Transverse plane = Horizontal plane
Mid-saggital plane = Midline
Ventral = Front
Dorsal = Back
Anterior = Front
Posterior = Back

11. The Matching Game
Each person has a card with a medical or layman’s term on it
Get UP!
Find your match.
Trade cards with someone else a few times as you walk around the room.
At teacher’s signal, Find your new match!
Repeat….

12. Body Planes revisited:

13. Body Planes revisited:
Coronal = Frontal

14. Body Planes revisited:
Coronal = Frontal
Transverse = Horizontal

15. Body Planes revisited:
Coronal = Frontal
Transverse = Horizontal
Mid-sagittal = Midline

16. You are the CSI agent
Mark the location of the injury described in the medical report.
“Deep Knife wound: Left anterior lateral chest, superior to the iliac crest“

17. You are the CSI agent
Mark the location of the injury described in the medical report.
“Spider bite: Inferior to the umbilicus, on the midsaggital line, with deep necrosis“

18. You are the CSI agent
Mark the location of the injury described in the medical report.
“Superficial Burn: Right leg, medial surface, just distal to the knee“

19. Where have you seen this?

20. Where have you seen this?

21. Just the Math:
In 3 dimensional space, using Cartesian coordinates, the coordinates are the signed distances to 3 perpendicular planes

22. Just the Math:
Every point in space has a unique location denoted by the point (x,y,z)
The x value is the signed distance from the x-axis.
Likewise with y and z.

23. Just the Math:
Plot the point
(2,4,5)

24. Just the Math:
Plot the point
(2,4,5)

25. Just the Math:
Plot the point
(-4,4,4)

26. Just the Math:
Plot the point
(-4,4,4)

27. How well do you know you terms?

28. Planes of the Banana
Cut banana across the Transverse plane, leaving Posterior peel to be cut along its mid-saggital plane to form legs.
Cut superior peel back to its coronal plane, dividing the anterior peel to form arms for the banana.

29. Planes of the Banana
Write name on paper plate, for later grading and display
Label the 3 planes on the banana peel, a pen writes very well on banana peel
Use a tooth pick (spaghetti noodle) to injure your banana, leaving it in the “wound”
Describe the wound location with the appropriate medical terms, a minimum of 3 terms