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Human back. The human back, also called the dorsum (pl.: dorsa), is the large posterior area of the human body, rising from the top of the buttocks to the back of the neck. [1] It is the surface of the body opposite from the chest and the abdomen. The vertebral column runs the length of the back and creates a central area of recession.
Dorsum (anatomy), the upper side of an animal, or the back in erect organisms. Dorsum humanum, the human back. Dorsum of foot, the top of the foot. Dorsum of hand, the back of the hand. The back of the tongue, which is used for articulating dorsal consonants.
The tongue is a muscular organ in the mouth of a typical tetrapod. It manipulates food for chewing and swallowing as part of the digestive process, and is the primary organ of taste. The tongue's upper surface (dorsum) is covered by taste buds housed in numerous lingual papillae. It is sensitive and kept moist by saliva and is richly supplied ...
Standard anatomical terms of location are used to describe unambiguously the anatomy of animals, including humans. The terms, typically derived from Latin or Greek roots, describe something in its standard anatomical position. This position provides a definition of what is at the front ("anterior"), behind ("posterior") and so on.
The dorsum sellae is part of the sphenoid bone in the skull.Together with the basilar part of the occipital bone it forms the clivus.. In the sphenoid bone, the anterior boundary of the sella turcica is completed by two small eminences, one on either side, called the middle clinoid processes, while the posterior boundary is formed by a square-shaped plate of bone, the dorsum sellae, ending at ...
Clivus (anatomy) The clivus (/ ˈklaɪvəs /, [ 1 ] Latin for "slope") or Blumenbach clivus is a part of the occipital bone at the base of the skull. [ 2 ] It is a shallow depression behind the dorsum sellae of the sphenoid bone. It slopes gradually to the anterior part of the basilar occipital bone at its junction with the sphenoid bone.
SIMBAD. data. Theta Capricorni, Latinized from θ Capricorni, is a white-hued star in the southern constellation of Capricornus, [ 10 ] positioned 0.58° south of the ecliptic. [ 11 ] Sometimes, this star is called by the name Dorsum, [ 12 ] meaning the back (of the goat) in Latin. It can be seen with the naked eye, having an apparent visual ...
The lateral dorsal cutaneous nerve is the continuation/terminal sensory branch of the sural nerve, and is ultimately derived from the 1st sacral nerve (S1). It passes distally along the lateral part of the dorsum of foot. It gives rise to the lateral dorsal digital nerve of the 5th toe, and sometimes also the medial dorsal digital nerve of the ...