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e ** Human Anatomy Terms  ** **The following terms are those which are used to identify the location of parts of the human body in medicine and academic study. These terms are often used to describe a specific portion of a structure or to compare the locations of two different structures. "The hand is distal to the forearm" or "the medial portion of the frontal bone contains the frontal sinus" are examples of this. We have organized this list of terms by keeping similar pairs or groups of terms together instead of by alphabetical order so that you will find them easier to learn and remember.**

**Superior - toward the head** **Anterior - the front of the body or body part** **Posterior - the back of the body or body part** **Medial - toward the midline that divides left and right** **Proximal - closer to the torso** **Distal - farther away from the torso** **Anatomical position - standing erect, facing the observer, arms are at the sides with palms facing forward.**
 * Inferior - away from the head**
 * Lateral - to the side away from the midline**

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