What's up Ninja Nerds? In this video today we're gonna be talking about body planes and sections. This is another very core concept to introduction to anatomy and physiology.
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Now, really, when we talk about body planes and sections, really, what you're trying to do is you're utilizing this a lot for when it comes to looking at anatomical images, looking at different things. For example, some of you guys are going to become clinicians. You'll have to look at a lot of different types of CT scans or MRIs, and those may come in different sections.
And so it's important as you guys go through anatomy. to be able to realize, oh that's a frontal or coronal section, that's a sagittal section, that's a transverse or axial section. Because it's really important because you can get different anatomical views from those different sections.
So basic concept here. What we're going to do is we're going to use here Skelly's head. And I'm going to give you an example of all the different sections and what it would look like on an actual image to give you guys a concept of what I'm talking about here. So if I take Skelly's head, I'm going to show you three sections.
One section we call the sagittal. Sometimes it's also referred to as the mid-sagittal section. And all I'm going to do is the section here that I'm going to be taking. is going to be going from anterior to posterior.
And I'm just going to go slice right down this portion here. So I'm going to slice Skelly's head into two pieces on the left and the right. Okay?
And that will show us particularly an image. What would that image look like? It should look a little bit like this. So you saw what a sagittal or mid-sagittal section should look like. Okay, the next thing here is a frontal or coronal section.
So with a frontal or coronal section, what I'm doing is I'm taking this section like this, and I'm going to cut Skelly's head down this way, and I'm going to use this section like this. And when I cut Skelly, I'm going to cut his head into an anterior and posterior piece. What would that look like on an image? It would look a little bit like this.
The last particular section here is called a transverse. It's also called a horizontal. Sometimes it's even called an axial section.
So we've covered mid-sagittal, going down this way, cutting it into right and left pieces. Frontal or the coronal, cutting down this way, cutting into an anterior and posterior piece. The last one here is what if I cut him like this?
So I have a section that's going from this part here right down the midline like this and I cut him into an inferior and superior piece. So I cut him into an anterior and posterior with which one? The frontal coronal. I cut him into a left and right piece with the midsagittal.
I cut him into a superior and inferior piece with a transverse, horizontal or axial section. What would that look like if I looked at an image? It would look a little bit like this. So within this video we talked very simply about the different types of sections. That being the sagittal, also sometimes referred to as the mid-sagittal, the frontal or coronal, as well as the transverse or horizontal or axial section.
And what that would look like in an anatomical image. I hope this made sense and I hope that you guys enjoyed it. And as always, love you, thank you, and until next time.