All right, here we go with anatomical terms for the head and neck. Just a quick reminder before we get going, the list of terms that you need to know for your class may be slightly different than the list that we're gonna go over. So always double check your notes to make sure you're studying the right stuff as we go through, I'll say the term, I'll say what it means. That's the information you really need to know. I'll also give a little bit of information that helps me remember it if that helps you remember it. Wonderful. But just remember that extra bit of information you're not gonna need for your test. All right, here we go. First off, we have frontal frontal is gonna be the forehead. Now, that's pretty straightforward, right? Your forehead is the front of your head. So your forehead is the frontal region. Next, we have orbital orbital is the eye. So when you think of the eye, the eye is sort of like a circular socket in your head and orbits, right? As a planet orbits, it moves in a circular motion. Well, technically, if you know your physics, it's an elliptical motion, but that's all right. It's a circular motion. So orbital eye next uh we have mental mental is gonna be your chin. Now, this one hangs people up sometimes, right? Because when you think of mental, you think of things like thoughts, you think of your mind. Well, that's because these words came from Latin and there's actually two Latin words that came into English and became mental in English. Those words are first mentum. Mentum in Latin means your chin. That's the one we're worried about. There's also a word in Latin, men's and men's means mind. So when these words came to English, they both became mental. Now we have confusion. Just remember mental, your mind. That's psychology. We don't do your mind in anatomy and physiology in anatomy, we talk about your chin. So chin mental. Next we have tech otic is your ear. I wish I had a good memory tool for OTI because it's one that always hung me up. It was hard for me to learn. I don't really have any good memory tool for it. Otic is just comes from the Greek for ear. So ear otic otic ear next, we have nasal, nasal means nose. I bet you already know that one. So I'm not gonna spend any time on it. After that. We have buckle, buckle is your cheek. I always remember buckle because I think of a buckle swab. So that's probably because I've worked in science labs. But if you take a buckle swab, you take a Q tip or a toothpick and you just rub the inside of your cheek to get a little bit of uh sample tissue. You may know buckle because apparently buckle fat removal is the new Hot Hollywood plastic uh surgery trend. If that helps you remember it. Great buckle cheek. Uh Finally on this side, we have oral mouth again, that's when I bet, you know, so I'm not gonna spend any more time on it. Oral mouth going down here to the bottom. Uh We have cephalic, cephalic is head. And when we say uh head, we mean the whole head, you can see this bracket here showing the whole thing. So really anywhere on your head is part of the cephalic region moving down, we have occipital occipital is the back of the head. And uh if you have any prior knowledge of anatomy, you may know that your, the bone in the back of your head is the occipital bone, the lobe of the brain that's in the back of the brain is the occipital lobe of the brain. So, occipital back of the head. And then finally on, on this slide, we have cervical, cervical is going to be neck. All right, cervical comes from the word cervix in Latin. And some people ask why is the part of the female anatomy? Cervix if the cervical region is the neck. Well, in the uterus, the cervix is sort of considered the neck of the uterus in the uterus, you have sort of this round shape and then there's a protrusion that comes downward, that protrusion is the cervix. So cervical always refers to neck anywhere in the body. So cervical neck with that, we have 10 terms down. We'll see you in the next video.
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This example asks us to use some of those anatomical terms that we just learned to label the lobes of the brain. Specifically, it wants us to put an o on the occipital lobe and an f on the frontal lobe. Now, on this brain here, we have four lobes that are different colors. We have this sort of blue gray lobe, a green lobe, a pinkish red lobe and this gold lobe. So take a second and think where the occipital lobe is gonna be and where the frontal lobe is gonna be. Ok. These terms, we said occipital occipital means the back of the head. So back of the head, I'm gonna look for a lobe of the brain. That's all the way in the back. When I do that, I look here, this pink one is right in the back of the head. I'm gonna predict that that is the occipital lobe. Next, we have frontal, frontal, we said is the forehead, the front of the head is the frontal region. So the frontal lobe is gonna be the lobe that's all the way in the front. Well, this blue gray one looks like it's in the front. So I'm gonna put an F there. All right there by just knowing my anatomical terms. I now already know some of my lobes of the brain occipital lobe in the back, frontal lobe in the front. With that, we have some more practice problems for you to practice your anatomical terms and we'll see you in the next video.
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Based on the anatomical terminology, the superior orbital fissure is related to which structure?
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Neck
B
Head
C
Eye
D
Nose
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During a prenatal exam, Connie is told there is a chance her child has hydrocephalus. She knows the prefix hydro means water. Where is she expecting there to be excess water in her child's body?
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Neck
B
Head
C
Eye
D
Nose
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