sagittal plane in a sentence
Examples
- Hip flexion and hip extension take place in the sagittal plane while hip abduction and adduction move the femur in the frontal plane.
- The body is on the whole light pink in colour, oval in the tentacular plane and considerably compressed in the sagittal plane.
- An inverted mark along the horizontal or sagittal plane of symmetry indicates a socially inferior rank to that indicated by the primary mark.
- Bernhardt M . Spien 1989 : Segmental Analysis of the Sagittal Plane Alignment of the Normal Thoracic and Lumbar Spines and Thoracolumbar Junction.
- The axes and the sagittal plane are the same for bipeds and quadrupeds, but the orientation of the coronal and transverse planes switch.
- The mesothelium of the body wall is extended round the central gut to form a mesentery, a longitudinal partition in the sagittal plane.
- In gait analysis, planar X-ray studies are done in the sagittal plane to allow for highly accurate tracking of large movements.
- This plane is called either the " sagittal meridional plane " or, confusingly, just the " sagittal plane ".
- The position of the sagittal plane that divides the object into equal right and left halves is called the midsaggital ( or median ) plane.
- The posterior canal is part of the bony labyrinth and is used by the vestibular system to detect rotations of the head in the sagittal plane.