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Body Planes

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A standing vertebrate divides by three anatomical planes: sagittal, splitting left and right; frontal, splitting front and back; and transverse, splitting upper and lower.

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A transverse cut separates a goat's upper body from its lower body, producing what doctors call a cross section.

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"Frontal" and "coronal" name the same plane — front-to-back, not top-to-bottom.