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In fields of anatomy, anatomical terms of location are descriptive terms to help identify positions or directions relative to a species. For example, the "top" of a human is generally considered to be the head, whereas for a snake, the top may be considered the highest portion of its back. Anatomical terms of location are not standardized and can differ dramatically between different fields of biology. In the sciences dealing with the anatomy of animals, precise anatomical terms of location are necessary for a variety of reasons. Two major problems arise with common usage, however. First, they tend to be language-specific, requiring translation into equivalent, or almost-equivalent, terms in other languages. They are not universal terms that may be readily understood by zoologists speaking other languages. Differences in terminology remain a problem that, to some extent, still separates the fields of zoological anatomy (sometimes called zootomy) and human (medical) anatomy.
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