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DrBob@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Why is the coronal section labeled “transverse” and the horizontal section labeled “dorsal”? That is some batshit fucking wrongness there.
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DrBob@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Why is the coronal section labeled “transverse” and the horizontal section labeled “dorsal”? That is some batshit fucking wrongness there.
Umbrias@beehaw.org 4 months ago
Because quadrupeds are oriented differently. This chart is accurate.
DrBob@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
The figures I’m looking at call the dorsal plane “frontal” which at last makes sense. Dorsal and ventral would be their regular directions in the frontal plane. I’m a brain guy so I normally only deal with the things in the neuraxis.
Umbrias@beehaw.org 4 months ago
It can be either the frontal or dorsal, however consider in zoology “dorsal fin”. Intuitively this is because the front of these animals doesn’t align with the frontal plane as it does in humans, but dorsal is a common alternative.
DrBob@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Dorsal plane still doesn’t make sense to me as dorsal/ventral are the directions in the plane. In the same way it wouldn’t make sense to describe something as the lateral plane if the directions are medial/lateral. But as I said I’m a brain guy.