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What medical position is rotating your wrist inward from anatomical position called?
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Rotating your wrist inward from anatomical position moves your pinkie finger toward the midline of the body. This movement is called adduction in medical terminology. Rotation of your wrist the opposite way so your thumb is far away from the midline of the body is called abduction.
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What is the positioning of one body part in relation to another?
The language of the positions and realtionships in antomy is called anatomical position and directional terms.
What is it called when you're laying down the correct anatomical word for the position?
The word is recumbent.
What is a movement of a new position by rotating the shape around a point called?
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What are anatomical passages called?
It's called ITER and is a passage leading from one anatomical part to another.
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The medical term for position above the point of reference is "superior."
What is Anatomical terminology?
They are terms that are more used in medical and classification purposes rather than vernacular purposes. For example, the knee bone is formally called the patella.
What is the standard human anatomical position?
When the human body is in the standard anatomical position it is upright, erect on two legs, facing frontward, with the arms at the sides each rotated so that the palms of the hands turn forward.
The section of the tooth where the anatomical crown meets the anatomical root is called the?
answer is A. cervix
How can you describe an everyday body position using medical terminology?
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What is dorsal position?
The dorsum is medical terminology for the back. Hence, the dorsal position is lying on your back.
Violently rotating column of air?
A violently rotating column of air is called a tornado.
What Section of the tooth where the anatomical crown meets the anatomical root is called?
It is where the enamel of the tooth meets the cementum of the root and is therefore referred to as the cemento-enamel junction.
