Sagittal plane

As sagittal plane (from the Latin sagitta "arrow" ) a from the head to the pelvis and from back to belly extending plane is referred to in the anatomy. In vertical view of a sagittal plane, you can see a side view of the body. The corresponding adjective is called sagittal and corresponds to the meaning " from front to back running ."

In the picture, the red area the sagittal plane through the center of the body dar. This special case is called the median plane. The line along which it touches the surface of the body is also referred to as a media line. This plane divides the body exactly in a right and a left half. Among other things, in the acoustics of human hearing the median plane has a meaning (→ Blue Czech bands).

Possible movements within a sagittal plane can be performed by forward or backward and up or down.

In radiology, and especially the tomographic imaging can play sagittal sections, either in a sagittal plane is recorded or reconstructed image data, an important role. From the tomographic investigation in this plane, the sagittal strata, with which one " slice by slice " considered the patients studied from one to the other side of his body found. Sagittal sections are for example used in the ultrasound measurement of nuchal translucency in the context of prenatal diagnosis or for imaging of the spine with the magnetic resonance or computed tomography.