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What is anatomy?
The study of the body's structures
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What is physiology?
The study of the body's functions
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List these in order: Organelles, tissue, cells, organisms, organ systems, macromolecules, organs
Macromolecules, organelles, cells, tissue, organ, organ system, organism
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What does the Integumentary system do?
External body covering, protects, synthesizes vitamin D
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What does the Skeletal system do?
Protects, supports, framework for muscles, where blood cells are made
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What does the Muscular system do?
Produces heat, posture, facial expression
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What does the Nervous system do?
Fast acting control system, responds to changes
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What does the Endocrine system do?
Glands secrete hormones
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What does the Lymphatic/Immune system do?
Picks up fluid leaked from blood vessels, disposes of debris, houses white blood cells, attacks foreign substances
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What does the Respiratory system do?
Keeps blood supplied w/ oxygen, removes CO2
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What does the Digestive system do?
Breaks down food
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What does the Excretory/Urinary system do?
Eliminates mitrogenous waste, regulates water and electrolyte
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What does the Reproductive system do?
Produces offspring, produces sperm and egg
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What is Anatomical Position?
Visual reference point. Person stands erect, feet together, eyes forward, palms facing forward, thumbs pointed away from the body
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What is the Axial region?
The main axis of the body
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What is the Appendicular region?
The limbs
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What is Superior and Inferior?
- Superior: above
- Inferior: below
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What is Medial and Lateral?
- Medial: close to the body
- Lateral: away from the body
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What is Proximal and Distal?
- Proximal: closer to point of attachment (limbs)
- Distal: farther from point of attachment (limbs)
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What is Superficial and Deep?
- Superficial: surface
- Deep: deeper
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What is the Coronal (frontal) plane?
Lies vertically and divides the body into anterior and posterior
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What is the Median (Sagittal) plane?
Lies vertically in the middle and cuts body into right and left sides
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What is the Transverse plane?
Runs horizontally and divides the body into superior and inferior parts
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What 2 cavities is the dorsal/posterior cavity divided into?
The cranial cavity (holds the brain) and the vertebral cavity (holds the spinal cord)
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What 3 parts is the Thoracic cavity divided into?
The pleural, the mediastinum, and the pericardial
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What are the Abdominal regions?
- R hypochondriac Epigastric L hypocondriac
- R lumbar Umbilical L lumbar
- R iliac hypogastric L iliac
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What are the quadrants? Which one is the stomach located in?
- Right upper, right lower, left upper, left lower.
- It is the the left upper quadrant
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What is homeostasis?
the ability to maintain a stable internal environment in a changing outside world
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What is negative feedback?
The PRIMARY homeostasis mechanism that keeps the variable close to a particular value (backwards)
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What is positive feedback?
Moves the system in the same direction (forwards)
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What does the Parietal serosa do?
A) lines the body walls
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What does Serous Fluid do?
C) separates the seosa
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What does the Viseral serosa?
B) covers organs
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What is an acute disease?
- A disease that happens suddenly, lasts a short time.
- ex: heart attack
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What is a chronic disease?
A disease that develops slowly, lasts long term, less severe
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Acromial
Point of shoulder
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Antecubital
Front of elbow
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Acromial
Point of shoulder
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