Divisional planes

In a view of your body, there are some "primary" ways of dividing your body. One of which is sagittal, or just dividing the body into left and right parts. So you would cut straight down between the eyes, making two parallel half-people. Then there is frontal, or coronal, which divides the body into Anterior and posterior parts. Meaning this time, your would cut in half from the side, cutting both ears in half...painful. Then there is transverse, which divides your body in half Horizontally, dividing the body into upper and lower sections. There is one that is not mentioned here, and that is the
Oblique section, which divides the body diagonally thoughout the body. There you have it, the division of the body.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5COfnxIMB8&list=FL8mwj6QXDUtoT6iTJD00EVg&index=1
in this resident evil clip, the laser slices the first guy horizontally through his neck. In other words, that would be a transverse cut, although it is at the neck. The second one that was cut to bits, was cut obliquely to the utmost extreme. most oblique cuts are normally one diagonally cut and not so much as a ton of squares. But, the representation still applies, and lets face it, nobody wants to be cut into little bite sized squares.