Identify the anatomical movement: Moving the arm away from the body.
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Identify the anatomical movement:
Moving the arm away from the body.
Planes and Axes of the Human Body
There are three planes of movement, each correlating to an axis is human movement, as follows:
- Sagittal plane - Mediolateral axis
- Frontal (coronal) plane - anteroposterior axis
- Transverse plane - longitudinal axis
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View this answerMoving the arm away from the body is also known as shoulder abduction.
This is a movement along the frontal plane, about the anteroposterior axis...
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