Body planes and sections

Body planes are imaginary cuts that separate the body into sections. There are three different body planes:

• The sagittal plane.
• The coronal plane, which is also referred to as the frontal plane.
• The transverse plane, which is also referred to as the horizontal plane.

If you further divide the body into sections where the plane lacks a right angle, the plane is referred to as an oblique plane.

Image 1: Human model divided into sections by the three anatomical body planes; coronal plane, transverse plane and sagittal plane