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The upper and lower limbs?
Appendicular
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The head, neck, and trunk?
Axial
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Organs within body cavities?
Viscera
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Contains the lungs, heart, esophagus, trachea, and thymus gland?
Thoracic Cavity
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The potential space between pleural membranes?
Pleural Cavity
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The region between the lungs?
Mediastinum
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The potential space between pericardial membranes?
Pericardial Cavity
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The abdominal cavity and pelvic cavity?
Abdominopelvic Cavity
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Contains the stomach, liver, spleen, gallbladder, kidneys, and the small and large intestines?
Abdominal Cavity
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Contains end of large intestine, the urinary bladder, and the internal reproductive organs?
Pelvic Cavity
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Contains the spinal cord and is surrounded by sections of the backbone?
Vertebral Cavity
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The most abundant substance in the body, required for a variety of metabolic processes, and is important in regulating body temperature?
Water
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The substances that provide organisms with necessary nutrients that supply energy and raw materials for building new living matter?
Food
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A gas that makes up about one-fifth of the air used to release energy from nutrients?
Oxygen
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A form of energy used by the body that helps regulate rates of metabolic reactions?
Heat
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The application of force on an object?
Pressure
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The body's maintenance of a stable internal environment?
Homeostasis
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The primary mechanism used in a process that returns conditions to set a value and turns off the response once the corrections is made?
Negative Feedback
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A process that moves conditions away from the normal state?
Positive Feedback
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Provide information about specific conditions in the body?
Receptors
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Analyze information presented by receptors, compare receptor input to normal "set point," and send correcting signals to correct change from normal?
Control Centers
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Cause responses that alter conditions in the internal environment?
Effectors
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What are the 5 items required for life?
Water, food, oxygen, heat, and pressure
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