that a new piercing I heard that getting your umbilicus pierced is like super painful and I've gotta say your ocular regions are looking stunning today what's up everybody I'm Patrick Kelly and today we are talking about the language of anatomy because yeah you can get through life with just neck back ears and all that but if you want to do some real Anatomy you need some new words some new complicated words but anatomist are boring so once you get a handful of regions down you can start throwing together really intuitive combinations of all of them no problem but it does take some memorization so in this video I'm gonna tell you my tricks and tips for memorizing the different regions of the body so here we go from the top down starting with the cranial region the superior part of the skull you ever played this game cranium it's a brain next is the occipital the posterior part of the skull personally I sleep on my back so I have two occiput this region on my pillow hey embrace the dad jokes now it'll make the memory stick the buccal regions are your cheeks and you know what you put in those bugles bagels Boca burgers and your bugles oral that relates to anything with the mouth you can't say the word oral without making an O o tick region is your ear and I remember this one because I never knew what the word sounded like is it o tick is it aa Tec am I completely mispronouncing it either way I remembered it because I didn't know what it sounded like the orbital or the ocular region relates to your eyes you know how you roll your eyes whenever your teacher assigns you homework well it's kind of like your eyes are orbiting around in your head nasal it's your nose this one's easy frontal also not surprising it's your forehead the front of your skull that's it for your head moving down lower that was dumb the cervical region is all of your neck and you got a twist your neck to do this did it serve like cervical side note this is one of the anatomical terms that I learned early on so I thought from a young age that cervical cancer meant cancer of the neck and boy was I wrong thoracic region means the upper body but it can also refer to the 12 vertebrae of the upper back easiest way to remember it is that Thor is super buff in the chest and back region and you can't spell thoracic without Thor scapular is the shoulder blade region to me SCAP kind of sounds like stab and how are you gonna stab something with the shoulder blade obviously dorsal means the upper back between the two shoulder blades just like the dorsal fin on a whale and costal means your ribcage area and you know that I will go for ribs no matter the cost I'm confused it's a simple question doctor would you eat the moon if it were made of ribs high-quality educational contents the sternal region is the center of your chest right where your sternum is and for this one I think of a hyper masculine guy with a stern look on his face whose beat in his chest length right here that hurt way more than I thought it would Hecht oral and mammary both kinda mean the same thing they mean breast or chest this one's pretty easy to remember it's got the word mama in it and like look I'm not gonna spell it out for you you can do this one but fair warning you have to remember that biosex women still have pectoralis muscles and biosex men still have nipples so as far as which term you want to use just whatever your teacher says the axillary regions are your armpits axillary an armpit they both start with a that's my memory device you can also remember that if the upper body were an A that's right where the crossbar would go the brachial region is for your upper arm and it's those big brachial muscles that help you break things also can we just rename armwrestling to brachial battles that would make the anatomy nerd in me so happy the antebrachial region is just used for the forearm super-creative I know but the term cubital also means forearm and that's because there was an old unit of measure the cubit that was one forearm long the antecubital region is on the inside at the elbow look I know an atom s aren't super creative live with it the carpal region is the area of your wrist and proximal hand and how are you going to drive a car with your hands the pull X is your thumb and how are you gonna vote in this poll yay or nay finally for the hand we have the digit region and that's your fingers but it's also your toes down on your feet and hey you got to use these digits to enter in these digits I guess you could just dictate but that doesn't work with a memory device the abdominal region is everything from your waist to your thorax it's not just the ABS I'm not gonna give you another shirtless Chris Hemsworth you already got one the lumbar is the lower back both start with L easy enough the gluteal region it's the but this is the one you already knew femoral region as the thigh region named after the femur which is a big bone in the thigh teller region is the front of the knee where that kneecap is that patella ella ella popliteal region is the back of the knee appropriately named because you can hold exactly one pop-tart back there and I know what you're thinking Patrick that's not a practical place to store pop-tarts I want to let you know I hear you and I politely reject your negativity next term the cruel region means your shins I remember this one because there's this giant lumberjack statue in my hometown he has enormous shins and he probably lives in a rural area which rhymes with purl you're sure region are your calf muscles and I always remember this one because I think of a super excited little kid who uses their calf muscles to stand on the tippy toes when they go sure the tarsal region at the top of the foot kind of getting in toward the ankle area you ever heard of the Carolina Tar Heels well I don't want you to start thinking that it's the heel it's the top of the foot completely different the foot itself is the keitel region and you can just think of that prefix for peed or pode anytime you hear podiatrist pediatrician bipedal if it has that prefix we're usually thinking about the feet or if you're like me you need your feet so that you can pedal a bicycle your hallux is your big toe and you know how you walk through the hall in the middle of the night on your tippy toes and then the plantar region is the bottom of your foot because every time you walk you're planting your foot on the ground now remember there are plenty more terms than just these especially when we start getting into the tuberosities and the really specific sites on the body if these will be enough to get you started and again if you want some practice check out the description for a Google slide show I put together for you to give you a good quiz and if you want to learn more about the language of anatomy check out this video I put together on the directional terms to the body it goes hand in hand or carpal and carpal with this video and if this 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