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7 Σεπ 2024 · Medial and Lateral. Imagine a line in the sagittal plane, splitting the right and left halves evenly. This is the midline. Medial means towards the midline, lateral means away from the midline. Examples: The eye is lateral to the nose. The nose is medial to the ears. The brachial artery lies medial to the biceps tendon.
Lateral (from Latin lateralis 'to the side') describes something to the sides of an animal, as in "left lateral" and "right lateral". Medial (from Latin medius 'middle') describes structures close to the midline, [2] or closer to the midline than another structure. For example, in a human, the arms are lateral to the torso. The genitals are ...
Lateral and medial are terms used to describe the relative positions or directions of body parts. Lateral refers to the side or outer part of the body, away from the midline. It is the opposite of medial, which refers to the middle or inner part of the body, closer to the midline.
21 Φεβ 2024 · Medial and Lateral. “Medial” means towards the midline of the body, while “lateral” means away from the midline. The nose is medial, while the ears are lateral. Proximal and Distal. These terms are primarily for limbs. “Proximal” means closer to where the limb attaches to the body, and “distal” means further away.
One example is the dorsal fin in fish, found on the upper side of the fish’s body. Lateral is used to describe anything closer to the sides of the body (toward the arms, in the standard anatomical position), while medial is used to describe anything toward the middle of the body.
14 Σεπ 2021 · Medial/Lateral–Equivalent to towards the middle or towards the edge. Used with respect to the midline of the trunk of a body in anatomical position. A structure that medial to another is closer to the midline of the body’s trunk. A feature that is lateral to another is farther away from the midline of the trunk.
30 Οκτ 2023 · The term lateral is a directional term that is used to describe the position of a structure relative to the median plane and the sides of the body. More specifically, it describes how further away a structure is from the median plane of the body.
