Anatomy breaks the human abdomen down into segments called _______________.

Question

Anatomy breaks the human abdomen down into segments called _______________.

Answer 1

The abdomen is split into four quadrants or nine regions.

First, the quadrants:

left upper and lower, and right upper and lower

and then the regions (from top to bottom):

right hypochondriac, epigastric, left hypochondriac

right lumbar, umbilical, left lumbar

right iliac, hypogastric, and left iliac