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What is the upper or lower limbs?
Appendicular
What is head neck and trunk?
Axial
What are internal organs?
Viscera
What is the cavity in teh vertebrate body enclosed by hte ribs between the diaphram and the neck and containing hte lungs and heart?
What is the narrow, fluid-filled space of the lung and inner chest wall?
What is the median septum or partition between two parts of an orgain or paired cavities?
mediastinum
What is the space between the layers of the pericardium that contains fluid that lubricates the membrane surfaces and allows easy heart movement?
What encompasses both the abdomen and the pelvic cavity?
What is the portion of the abdominopelvic cavity enclosed by the pelvic bones?
What is the cavity that contians the spinal cord and is surrounded by sections of the backbone?
Verterbral Cavity
What is a medium for metabolic reactions, to transport substances, and to regulate body temperature?
What are substances that provide organisms with necessary chemicals or nutrients?
Food
What is the gas that makes up one-fifth of the air and is used to release energy from nutrients?
Oxygen
What is the form of energy that is also a process of metabolic reactions and partly controls the rate at which the reactions occur?
Heat
What is the application of force on an object or substance?
Pressure
What is the body's maintenence of a stable internal environment?
Homeostasis
What is it when a correction reduces the action of the effectors?
Negative Feedback
Positive Feedback
What provides information about specific conditions or stimuli in the internal environment?
Receptor
What is a set point which is a specific value?
What causes responses that alter conditions in the internal environment?
Effector
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