[QUOTE=Librarygirl;509909]Oakleaf,

What is the sagittal plane? And what are the other two planes? (If it is explainable without too much complicated stuff!)

sagital plane- if you are standing beside a wall with your right shoulder touching, the wall equals you sagital plane. If I cut your arm off at the shoulder joint from front to back- I have cut itoff in a sagital plane.

If I cut you apart into front and back by going through both ears, I have cut you in the transverse plane which is parallel the wall in front of you if you stand in the middle of the room.

If I cut you apart at the waist with a cut that is parallel to the ceiling or the floor I have cut you in the medial or median plane.

I think? And I am sorry that I sound like Hannible Lecter., I had it explained to me by my father when I was a child as he cut up a a beef carcass for our winter meat many years ago.

marni