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Plane Body Frontol Coronal Anterior Posterior Transverse Horizontal

Front What are the three planes of the body?
Back These are:
1) Frontol (coronal) plane - Anterior vs. posterior.
2) Transverse (horizontal) plane - Superior vs. inferior.
and
3) Sagittal plane - medial vs. lateral.

Tags: 5, anatomy

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