<P> Brain viewed from below . This is an example of a transverse plane . </P> <Li> <P> Brain cut in half through the midsection . This is an example of a sagittal plane . </P> </Li> <P> Brain cut in half through the midsection . This is an example of a sagittal plane . </P> <P> When describing anatomical motion, these planes describe the axis along which an action is performed . So by moving through the transverse plane, movement travels from head to toe . For example, if a person jumped directly up and then down, their body would be moving through the transverse plane in the coronal and sagittal planes . </P>

The sagittal plane is a vertical plane that divides the body into anterior and posterior segments