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What is a plane and a section
Planes are immaginary and sections are actual cuts/sections of the body.
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What is frontal and coronal?
- Frontal = front, anterior, ventral
- Coronal = back, posterior, dorsal
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What does "Para" mean?
Close to or next to the midline, it's proximal, but not on the midline
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What are more terms for cranial and caudal?
- Cranial = head
- Caudal = tail, toe
- Rostral = close to nose
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What do the terms Superficial, Deep, and Proximal mean?
- Superficial = external, closer to outside of skin
- Deep = more internal, deep to something, more underneath
- Proximal = "close to" reference point (trunk/torso)
- Distal = more "away from" reference point
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What's the difference b/w the dorsal body cavity and the ventral body cavity?
- Dorsal = houses 2 organs of the central nervous system, spinal/vertebral cord & cranial/brain
- Ventral = thoracic cavity - superior to diaphram
- abdominopelvic cavity - inferior to diaphram, also divided into abdominopelvic and pelvic cavities
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What is mucus?
thick, open to outside, mucin fibers which thicken
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what is serous membranes?
thin, watery, found within closed body cavity
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what are the 3 cavities?
- - pleural = right and left lungs
- - pericardial = heart
- - peritoneal = abdominopelvic cavity
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Phospholipid Bylayer
- - phosphate group carries a "-" charge, this is the polar/water soluble part
- - phospholipid bylayer seperates the ECF from the ICF
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