Sectional Planes

Now imagine dissecting this person with imaginary vertical and horizontal planes.

Sectional planes. These planes are the different directions a body is cut to reveal different views of its internal structures. This is the best way to describe anatomical planes. To view the interior of a body we expose the organs and structures that are visible when that body is cut open along one of four commonly used sectional planes.

The cross sectional plane syn. In clinical medicine the cross sectional plane is commonly referred to as an axial or transaxial plane. Imagine a person standing in an upright position.

Anatomical planes can be used to describe any body part or an entire body. When a body of startup material 70 has been interposed in the cavity 4 between the starter block 60 and a first cross sectional plane 72 of the cavity transverse the axis 12 thereof the starter block has commenced reciprocating along the axis and the body of startup material has commenced reciprocating in tandem with it through a. Anatomical body planes.

View a detailed body plane image. The sagittal plane lateral or y z plane divides the body into sinister and dexter left and right sides. Start studying sectional planes body cavities directional terms.

It divides the body into superior and inferior parts. The midsagittal median plane is in the midline through the center of the body and all other sagittal planes are parallel to it.