Anatomical plane that divides the body into superior and inferior parts
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Transverse plane
The main anatomical planes of the human body, including median (red), paramedian (yellow), frontal or coronal plane (blue) and transverse or axial plane (green)
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Latin
plana transversalia
TA98
A01.2.00.006
TA2
52
FMA
12247 71928, 12247
Anatomical terminology
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The transverse plane (also known as the horizontal plane, axial plane and transaxial plane) is an anatomical plane that divides the body into superior and inferior sections. It is perpendicular to the coronal and sagittal planes.
The transverseplane (also known as the horizontal plane, axial plane and transaxial plane) is an anatomical plane that divides the body into superior...
plane or frontal plane (vertical) divides the body into dorsal and ventral (back and front, or posterior and anterior) portions. The transverseplane...
into right and left sections. It is perpendicular to the transverse and coronal planes. The plane may be in the center of the body and divide it into two...
to the sagittal and transverseplanes. The coronal plane is an example of a longitudinal plane. For a human, the mid-coronal plane would transect a standing...
In geometry, a transversalplane is a plane that intersects (not contains) two or more lines or planes. A transversalplane may also form dihedral angles...
membrane plane, but each point in the membrane itself gets displaced up and down, perpendicular to that plane. Light is another example of a transverse wave...
lower transverseplane midway between the upper transverse and the upper border of the pubic symphysis; this is termed the intertubercular plane (or transtubercular)...
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graduations Transversal Corporation, a software company Transversalplane, a geometric concept Transversal, relating to the transverseplane in anatomy...
acceleration Transverse mass, a particle physics quantity Transverseplane, the plane orthogonal to the anteroposterior or oral-aboral axis Transverse rotors...
pitch plane of a rack or crown gear is also the pitch surface. The transverseplane is perpendicular to the axial plane and to the pitch plane. In gears...
normal to a plane of isotropy. This transverseplane has infinite planes of symmetry and thus, within this plane, the material properties are the same...
medium such as air, water and solids as longitudinal waves and also as a transverse wave in solids. The sound waves are generated by a sound source, such...
a transverseplane, and the general terms profile angle and pressure angle are customarily used rather than transverse profile angle and transverse pressure...
subcostal plane is a transverseplane which bisects the body at the level of the 10th costal margin and the vertebra body L3. "Definition: subcostal plane from...
circle. Transverse circular thickness Circular thickness in the transverseplane. Normal circular thickness Circular thickness in the normal plane. In a...
this transverseplane crossed the pylorus, he called it the transpyloric plane. Surface projections of the organs of the trunk, with transpyloric plane labeled...
A transverse abdominis plane block, also called TAP block, is a regional technique to provide analgesia after lower abdominal wall operations. The techniques...
transverseplane is given by a Gaussian function; this also implies a Gaussian intensity (irradiance) profile. This fundamental (or TEM00) transverse...
Horizontal position representation Local tangent plane Northing and easting Tilted planeTransverseplane Vertical and horizontal (radio propagation) Vertical...
and a transverse wave if they are always orthogonal (perpendicular) to it. Often the term "plane wave" refers specifically to a traveling plane wave,...
The Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) is a map projection system for assigning coordinates to locations on the surface of the Earth. Like the traditional...
exist. The name derives from the fact that, in the sagittal plane and/or transverseplane, the SMA and AA (with some imagination) appear to be a nutcracker...
system divides the lobes of the liver into eight segments based on a transverseplane through the bifurcation of the main portal vein, arranged in a clockwise...
A transverse mode of electromagnetic radiation is a particular electromagnetic field pattern of the radiation in the plane perpendicular (i.e., transverse)...
lateral ends/angles of the palpebral fissure. The bicanthal plane is the transversalplane linking both canthi and defines the upper boundary of the midface...
The transumbilical plane or umbilical plane, one of the transverseplanes in human anatomy, is a horizontal line that passes through the abdomen at the...
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