What Is a Sagittal Plane?

The sagittal plane is an anatomical term. The human body is divided into left and right parts, the left and right cut planes are sagittal planes, and the left and right cut planes are called median sagittal planes.

Sagittal plane

The plane passing through the human body (or other object) along the vertical and longitudinal axes (that is, the median sagittal plane) and all planes parallel to it are called sagittal planes.