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What's torquing my brain is that in the diagram, the left is on the right, and the right is on the left!
by twic 7y ago
What's torquing my brain is that in the diagram, the left is on the right, and the right is on the left!
- bookofjoe 7y agoYES! I spent about 10 minutes trying to visualize the diagram as correct before I gave up. In my case, I just thought I wasn't looking at it correctly.
- pfortuny 7y agoIt is looked at from below... Strange.
- twic 7y agoBelow and in front. Like you were looking at the underneath of a hat you were about to put on someone else, not on yourself.
- Someone 7y agoLeft and right are defined from “1st person’s perspective”, but that’s not how medics typically look at their patients. When a doctor looks a patient in the eye, the left is on the right, and the right is on the left. That’s why many medical illustrations have the left on the right and vice versa (examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical_terminology#/media/File%3AAbdominal_Quadrant_Regions.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical_terminology#/media/..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_notation)
- DaiPlusPlus 7y agoIsn’t this also why the terms SX and DX are used (from the Latin Sinister and Dexter, for Left and Right) respectively - because they always unambiguously refer to the subject/patient’s left and right?
- kazinator 7y agoMust be a cranial view (toward the top of the head from the bottom).
- KC8ZKF 7y agoAlso, if you look at it as bottom as front, the description doesn't match. The left side is slightly forward to the right, contrary to the article.