Anatomical Terms for the Leg and Foot - Video Tutorials & Practice Problems
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The Leg and Foot
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All right on to anatomical terms, the leg and thigh. Now, quick reminder, every anatomy class has a slightly different list of anatomical terms that you need to know. So make sure you refer to your notes to know exactly which words you need to study with that. I wanna to orient you to the picture here. This picture shows two legs, but specifically the one on the left is the front of the leg and the thigh and the one on the right is the back of the leg and thigh. So now cox cox is your hip. If you touch your hips, you feel there's a bone there, that bone is part of your pelvis. Specifically, it's the coal bone. Your cockle bone is your hip bone, cocci region is your hip region. Next, we have femoral femoral is your thigh and you may be familiar the large bone in your thigh is your femur, your femur is in the femoral region, femoral thigh, moving down the leg, we have the patella or the patella region that's gonna be your kneecap. Now, the kneecap, the bone is the patella and it comes from the Latin meaning small or shallow dish. And if you look at the bone, you can sort of imagine it looking like a little saucer for a teacup or something like that. Now, interestingly, the word, which is a terrifically delicious Spanish or Latin food. It also comes from that word patella and it's called that because it's cooked in a shallow dish. So both patella, your kneecap and the food come from the Latin term. Patella, patella is your kneecap. Now, sticking with the knee, we're gonna look over here to pop the teel, pop, the teel is the back of the knee. And I remember that one because that's it's back of the knee. It's a soft spot in the back of the knee. When I stand up, sometimes my knees pop. So when my knees pop, I say, hey, that's my pop region. OK? Continue to move down. You'll note that the next two both have these red letters starting them crowl and sl these sound similar and they refer to similar regions. So I think it's really good to learn them together and always say them together. So you can keep them straight. Curl means the lower leg or really just between the, the knee and the ankle while CRL refers to the back of the calf. So the way I keep that straight in my head curl C become comes before S so C talks about the curl region, talks about the entire region while S comes after C. So CRL just talks about the back of the region. It's just the back of the, the calf curl and cl next we have pedal pedal is your foot. You can remember that because you pedal a bicycle with your pedal region. Both those words come from the same Latin root, pedal, your foot. And lastly on this list, we have planter. Planter is the bottom of the foot. And I remember that because I plant my feet on my planter region. Ok. We've just learned eight more anatomical terms and I'll see you in the next video.
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Anatomical Terms for the Leg and Foot Example 1
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This example wants to know based on the anatomical terms. Where do you think the following injuries affect? And first up, we have a planter fasciitis. Take a second for that one. All right, planter, remember I plant my feet on my planter region. So the planter region is the bottom of the foot. Now, you don't need to know the rest of this for this unit. But FASA FASA is connective tissue that surrounds muscles, binds muscles and connects muscles to other things. So uh planter fish is a painful condition of the fascia of the bottom of the foot, makes it really painful to walk or sometimes even stand next up. We have a FASA Curri tea. See if you know that one. All right, keyword, Curri. Remember you have your curl and C region. I said, remember those together curl and cl both relate to the lower leg, the place between the ankle and the knee C comes before s So it's that whole region, Cyl S comes after C. So it's just the back. So the chorus we're talking about that whole lower leg. The fauss is the connective tissue that separates the major muscles of your lower legs, for example, your calf from the muscles at the front of your leg. All right. Next up, we have patella tendonitis, see if you know that one. All right, patella, your patella is your kneecap. So patella is the front of the knee and tendinitis is just a painful condition of the tendons. You have a patella tendon that connects your quad to your knee cap to the front of the lower leg. And then finally, we have a poly cyst. See if you know that one. All right. Remember, I like to say my knee pops pole is the back of the knee. So that's a cyst in the back of the knee. I guess you can pop a cyst too. And that's kind of gross. All right, we have more practice problems below and I'll see you in the next video.
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The posterior part of the knee is called:
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Hallux
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Patellar
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Popliteal
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Sural
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Which anatomical term refers to a region that is proximal to the crural region?
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Digital
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Tarsal
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Patellar
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Sural
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Based on the anatomical terms, the dorsalis pedis artery is likely associated with which structure?
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Ankle
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Back of the knee
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Foot
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Calf
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The Foot
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We have reached our last set of anatomical terms for body regions, terms for the foot, same disclaimers as always check your notes. Every professor, every class has a slightly different list. They want you to know. So make sure you know what you need to study for your test. All right, first up we have tarsal, tarsal is the ankle or the tarsal region is the ankle region and the tars soles are the ankle bones. Now I say here learn with carpal. If you remember carpal is the wrist, the wrist and the ankle are pretty similar body regions and carpal and tarsal sound similar. So carpal wrist tarsal is the ankle. Now, if we go over here, we see meta tale. Meta tale is the bones of the foot. And if you remember the wrist, we had carpal metacarpal, the same pattern here. Tarsal meta tale, you remember meta means after and in this case, tarsal means ankle. So after the ankle, the meta tale is the bones of the foot moving down. We have Calcaneal. Calcaneal is the heel and the calcaneus is the heel bone. Now that comes from Cal Cania, which is Latin for chalk and I don't know about you. But if I look at my heel, the skin looks pretty white and chalky. So that helps me remember it. Calcaneal heel moving down, we have Hale Hale is just Latin for your big toe. And the way I remember it is, I say how has a luxuriously large big toe, how Lux Hale, big toe. Finally, we have digital and digital is just your toes. Now, you'll know we have the same word digital for your fingers and your toes. You count digits on your fingers. And if you run out of fingers to count on, well, you can keep counting on your toes. So the same word for fingers and toes, digital with that, we have learned our anatomical terms for body regions. Good job everybody.
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Anatomical Terms for the Leg and Foot Example 2
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This problem asks us to use our knowledge of anatomical terms to see if we can figure out where these four medical conditions affect in the body. So let's give a look. First off, we have Hale rigid. All right, see if we can figure that one out. Ok, Hale Hale, we said Hal has a luxuriously large big toe. So Hale rigid affects the big toe. Specifically, it's an arthritic condition of the big toe. Next, we have a Calcaneal spur, give yourself a second to figure that one out. Ok. Keyword there being Calcaneal Calcaneal is the heel. Calcaneus is the heel bone. So a Calcaneal spur is just a bone spur on the heel. Next, we have metatarsalgia. See what you think about that, right? The key part of this word is meta tarsal and we said meta means after and tarsal means the ankle. So it's the bones after the ankle, which are the bones of the foot. Specifically metatarsalgia is a painful condition of the ball of the foot. That's where those bones of the foot are along the top of your foot. That's where they end. So meta tasia affects those bones of your foot. Then finally, we have tarsal tunnel syndrome. See what you think about that one. All right, tarsal tunnel syndrome. You've probably heard of carpal tunnel syndrome. Carpal tunnel syndrome affects your wrist. And I suggest you, you remember carpal and tarsal together because they kind of sound together, tarsals your ankle. So you have AAA carpal tunnel, you also have a tarsal tunnel and so tarsal tunnel syndrome affects your ankle. All right. With that, we have some practice problems below. Give them a try.
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You injure yourself and the doctor says you have a contusion in the hallux region. Based on your anatomical terms, what could be another name for this injury?
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Stubbed big toe
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Sprained ankle
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Torn tendon in the knee
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Broken leg
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Which structure is distal to the metatarsals?
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Sural
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Tarsal
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Digital
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Femoral
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