Anatomical Directional Terms - Why Doctors Use Big Words to Describe Where Things Are

Learn A&P 2 with me! Enrollment closes Monday morning (October 5): https://courses.siebertscience.com 🫀 🧠 Join THE MEMORY LAB, where I teach you how to learn science so you score higher, remember more, and feel confident in your exams! 🤓 https://memorylab.siebertscience.com ----- 🧑🏽‍🎓Learning anatomy & physiology? Check out these resources I've made to help you learn! ↙️ 📗 FREE A&P SURVIVAL GUIDE 🧠 https://siebertscience.ck.page/anatomysurvivalguide 📘 A&P STUDY CARDS 🫀 https://store.siebertscience.com/products/anatomy-physiology-study-cards 🫁 COMPLETE LIST OF ALL MY A&P VIDEOS 💀 https://www.siebertscience.com/science/anatomy-physiology 🧠 COMPREHENSIVE A&P SYSTEM GUIDES 👀 https://store.siebertscience.com ⬆️ Guides coming soon! Check back in August 2024. ----- 🩻 Support the channel and get access to blank and labeled diagrams for all of my anatomy & physiology videos! - https://www.patreon.com/siebertscience ----- Doctors use anatomical directions terms (superior, inferior, anterior, posterior, distal, proximal, superficial, deep, cranial, caudal, dorsal, and ventral) to describe the locations of structures in the body. I explain why these are needed and give an overview of each term. This is the first video in my Anatomy & Physiology series! ----- Images used: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anatomical_Position.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anatomical_Directions_2.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thigh_cross_section.svg Music from: Storyblocks Audio (Free Version)