What is the difference between transverse section and longitudinal section? Can anyone explain the difference between transverse and longitudinal section? Or are they the same?

For an animal with bilateral symmetry, a longitudinal section is parallel to the anterior-posterior axis (labelled central axis in the image below). Sections through or parallel to either the sagittal or coronal (also called frontal) plane are longitudinal. A transverse section is perpendicular to the anterior-posterior axis and is also called a cross section.

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