• Umbrias@beehaw.org
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    4 months ago

    Dorsal means towards the (anatomical) back, ventral means towards the ground. These are perpendicular to the dorsal plane, as frontwards is perpendicular to the frontal plane.

    I’m unfamiliar with brain orientation so perhaps the tradition is a bit different!

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      4 months ago

      Is the same. We’d call it the horizontal plane though. Dorsal takes a bend so it’s the top of the head and the back. Sagittal sections move medial/lateral and coronal sections move rostral/caudal again taking a bend down the neuraxis of the spine.

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        4 months ago

        Interesting! Thank you.

        Neat that the dorsal plane bends, I could see that disagreeing with the body orientation planes

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          4 months ago

          Also we just use anterior/posterior for the organism if you want to ignore the bend and talk about the face and chest vs the back and back of the head. All the other planes are ok.