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Anatomy terms

shin (xương chày)

biopsy: sinh thiết

dorsal

lap: the top part of your legs that forms a flat surface when you are sitting down
I want to sleep on your lap. thigh

In humans and other primates, the knee (đầu gối) joins the thigh with the leg and consists of two joints: one between the femur and tibia (tibiofemoral joint), and one between the femur and patella (patellofemoral joint).
"To your knee!", "Bend the knee!"

In humans, the sole of the foot is anatomically referred to as the plantar aspect.

Ham is pork from a leg cut that has been preserved by wet or dry curing, with or without smoking. As a processed meat, the term ham includes both whole cuts of meat and ones that have been mechanically formed.
Ham: the thigh and rump of a meat animal

haunch: the tops of the legs and buttocks; the similar parts at the back of the body of an animal that has four legs

navel: rốn; belly button

Pectoral muscles (nhóm cơ ngực, colloquially referred to as "pecs") are the muscles that connect the front of the human chest with the bones of the upper arm and shoulder.

The latissimus dorsi (cơ xô) is a large, flat muscle on the back that stretches to the sides, behind the arm, and is partly covered by the trapezius on the back near the midline.

Skull

Sagittal suture: đường khớp dọc từ sau ra trước

Mạch máu

Aorta: động mạch chủ

The esophagus (thực quản, cuốn họng, American English), oesophagus (British English), or œsophagus (archaic spelling), colloquially known also as the food pipe, food tube, or gullet, is an organ in vertebrates through which food passes, aided by peristaltic contractions, from the pharynx to the stomach.

The temple, also known as the pterion, is a latch where four skull bones intersect: the frontal, parietal, temporal, and sphenoid.[1] It is located on the side of the head behind the eye between the forehead and the ear. The temporal muscle covers this area and is used during mastication.
temporal lobe: thùy thái dương

Anatomical plane & location terms

forefinger: the finger next to the thumb

calf: bắp chân, con bê
cab: a taxi

standard anatomical position: tư thế giải phẫu. Lòng bàn tay hướng ra trước

anterior: at the front
posterior: back, behind

Planes

Median or mid-sagittal plane (mặt phẳng đứng dọc or mặt phẳng trung tuyến); parallel to the sagittal suture; divides the body into left and right. forwards and backwards movement
The term parasagittal plane is used to refer to any plane parallel to the sagittal and median plane.
Còn một tên gọi khác là longitudinal plane == cả 2 loại sagittal plane nêu ở trên.

Frontal Plane or coronal plane hay mặt phẳng đứng ngang/đứng bên (trán); divides the body into front and back; left or right movement

Transverse Plane or horizontal plane (mặt phẳng ngang) rotational and twisting movement) around the longitudinal axis; In a human, this plane is parallel to the ground; in a quadruped, this divides the animal into anterior and posterior sections.

Fins (vây cá hay vi cá) are moving appendages protruding from the body of fish that interact with water to generate thrust and help the fish swim.
flap (N.): a part of the wing of an aircraft, at the back of the wing, that can be moved up or down to control movement in either direction

Axes

References

anatomical plane

anatomical terms of location

Fish anatomy

A dorsal fin (vây lưng) is a fin located on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates within various taxa of the animal kingdom.

blubber (mỡ cá)

fish fin named after human muscle names

Fish gills (mang cá) are organs that allow fish to breathe underwater. Most fish exchange gases like oxygen and carbon dioxide using gills that are protected under gill covers (operculum) on both sides of the pharynx (throat).

Whale

Baleen is a filter-feeding system inside the mouths of baleen whales.

whale fluke: cái đuôi ở sau cùng, strong, fibrous but contain no bones. Chia ra right fluke & left fluke.

Unlike fish, whales and dolphins evolved from four-legged animals with limbs underneath their bodies, their backbones naturally bend up and down and not side to side. It is also why their tail fins are horizontal and not vertical like those of fish.

Four-legged animals

Ham: the thigh and rump of a meat animal

Behaviours

whale behaviour

Whale breaches: leaps out of the water

sinew or tendon: gân

spleen: lá lách

Cartilage (sụn) is a resilient and smooth type of connective tissue. Semi-transparent and non-porous, it is usually covered by a tough and fibrous membrane called perichondrium.
Carthage

Other terms

Bilateria (động vật đối xứng 2 bên) is a large clade or infrakingdom of animals called bilaterians characterized by bilateral symmetry (i.e. having a left and a right side that are mirror images of each other) during embryonic development.

A stinger (mũi kim chích, or sting) is a sharp organ found in various animals (typically insects and other arthropods) capable of injecting venom, usually by piercing the epidermis of another animal.

bilateral: involving two groups of people or two countries unilateral: đơn phương; unilaterally.

lateral: of or pertaining to the side
medial: in the middle

The crook of your arm: the part of your arm where it bends