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The planimetry is that branch of the Topographythat takes care of the representation of the land surface on a plane. So it focuses its study on the set of methods and procedures that will tend to get representation to scale of all those interesting details of the terrain in question on a flat surface, except for its relief and represented in a horizontal projection.

Then, the planimetry, projects on the horizontal plane the elements of the polygonal as points, straight lines, diagonals, curves, surfaces, contours, bodies, etc., without considering the difference in elevation.

Meanwhile, horizontal distance measurements can be decide based on various instruments and procedures and their choice will depend exclusively on the objectives to be pursued, the lengths to be measured, the terrain conditions and the instruments to be have.

Mostly, horizontal distances will be determined by references (when available blueprints coordinates can be read directly using coordinate systems),

steps (the distance in question through the normal steps that a person takes and the number of them when traveling a certain distance), by tape measure (we will need additional elements such as stakes, plumb lines, rods and spirit levels), by tachymeter, among other methods.

And on his side the anatomical planimetry it's a method highly employed in Anatomy that serves to study the human body from imaginary lines that begin in certain anatomical structures and that they precisely have the objective of dividing the human being into planes to locate certain structures, or failing that, some pathologies.

The fundamental plans in this sense are: median or midsagittal plane (It is the vertical plane that runs longitudinally throughout the body and divides it into two equal parts), paramedian or parasigatal planes (any of the vertical planes that are parallel to the median plane and that divide the body into two unequal zones), frontal or coronal planes (any vertical plane that is perpendicular to the median plane and that divides the body into an anterior and posterior zone), horizontal planes (Any of the planes perpendicular to the median and coronal planes and that divide the body into two zones, one cranial or superior and another caudal or inferior) and transverse planes (It will be that plane perpendicular to the major longitudinal axis).

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