Umbilical plane

Umbilical plane
The main anatomical planes of the human body, including median (red), parasagittal (yellow), frontal or coronal plane (blue) and transverse or axial plane (green). In this case, the transverse plane is an umbilical plane because it passes through the navel.
umbilicus
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

The umbilical plane is the transverse plane passing through the umbilicus.

This is similar to the location of the mid-transverse plane, which is the transverse plane made through the waist, into roughly two halves: the torso, arms and head on the top, and the pelvis and legs (including hands if arms are held vertically) at the bottom. That is the plane seen in the picture.

Anatomical planes and lines

Sagittal plane	Median plane front (Anterior median line/Midsternal line, Parasternal line, Midclavicular line, Anterior axillary line, Midaxillary line) back (Posterior median line, Scapular line, Posterior axillary line)

Transverse plane	Thoracic plane Transpyloric plane Subcostal plane Umbilical plane Supracristal plane Intertubercular plane Interspinous plane

Coronal/frontal plane	Sternal plane

General anatomy: systems and organs, regional anatomy, planes and lines, superficial axial anatomy, superficial anatomy of limbs

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