| A | B |
| Muscloskelatal | support, movement, protection muscles, bones, joints, bone marrow |
| Integumentary | protection-skin, hair, nails |
| Gastronintestinal | nutrition- stomach, intestines |
| Urinary | elimination of nitrogenous waste-kindneys, bladder, ureters |
| Reproductive | reproduction-ovaries, testes |
| blood/lymphatic | transportation-blood cells |
| Immune | protection- lymph glands |
| Cardiovascular | transportation-heart, vessels |
| Respiratory | delivers oxygen to cells-lungs, bronchi, trachea |
| Nervous/Behavorial | receive/process information--brain, nerves, mind |
| Endocrine | effects changes through chemical messengers-pancreas, thyroid |
| Anterior (ventral) | front surface of the body |
| Posterior (dorsal) | back side of the body |
| Deep | away from the surface |
| Proximal | near the point of attachment to the trunk or near the beginning of a structure |
| Distal | far from the point of attachement to the trunk or far from the beginning of a structure |
| Inferior | below another structure |
| Superior | above another structure |
| Medial | pertaining to the middle or nearer the medial plane of the body |
| Lateral | pertaining to the side |
| Supine | lying on the back |
| Prone | lying on the belly |
| No ROM | most synarthroses are immovable joints held together by fibrous tissue |
| Limited ROM | amphiathroses are joint joined together by cartilage that is slightly moveable, such as the vertebrae of the spine or the pubic bone |
| Full ROM | diathroses are joints that have free movement. ball and socket joint (hip) and hinge joints(knee) are common diathroses joints (synovbial joints) |
| Synovial | joints, free moving joint, are surrounded by joint capsules. many of the synovial joints have bursae, which are sacs of fluid that are located between the bones of the joint and the tendons that hold the muscles in place |
| Extension | to increase the angle of a joint |
| Flexion | to decrease the angle of a joint |
| Abduction | movement away from the midline |
| Adduction | movement towards the midline |
| Supination | turning the palm or foot upward |
| Pronation | turning the palm or foot downward |
| Dorsiflexion | raising the foot, pulling the toes away from the shin |
| Plantar flexion | lowering the foot, pointing the toes away from the shin |
| Eversion | turning outward |
| Inversion | truning inward |
| Protraction | moving a part of the body forward |
| Retraction | moving a part of the body backward |
| Rotation | Revoving a bone around its axis |