Introductory Info
Plane that divides the body into equal right and left halves
Midsagittal or median plane
Type of epithelial tissue that is one layer of flattened cells
Simple squamous
Location of thick skin
Palms of hands, soles of feet
Mature bone cell that lives in lacuna and performs housekeeping, with its extensions traveling through canaliculi
Osteocyte
Structural joint category for bones united by cartilage
Cartilaginous joint
Type of transport that utilizes a carrier or channel but still follows a concentration gradient, with solutes moving from high to low concentration areas
Facilitated diffusion (passive transport)
Types of cartilaginous connective tissue
Elastic, fibrocartilage, hyaline
Gland found in axillary, inguinal, and anogenital regions that contains sweat as well as lipid secretion
Apocrine sudoriferous gland
Type of ossification that forms the cranial bones
Intramembranous ossification
Movement that is a combination of flexion, extension, abduction, and adduction
Circumduction
Structural division between the thoracic and abdominopelvic cavities
Diaphragm
Type of tissue designed to conduct an electrical impulse
Nervous tissue (the neuron)
Type of connective tissue that makes up the dermis
Dense irregular connective tissue, loose areolar connective tissue
Suture connecting the two parietal bones
Sagittal suture
Functional name for a joint that permits a slight degree of movement
Amphiarthrosis
Type of solution that would cause crenation of a red blood cell
Hypertonic
"Wet" membrane that lines the cavities that open to the outside of the body
Mucous membrane
Slowly adapting mechanoreceptors, adapting to stretch and deep pressure
Ruffini endings
Bone that contains the lateral malleolus
Fibula
The functional and specific structural type of joint between the first metacarpal and trapezium
Extension of the nuclear membrane which may either be a site of protein synthesis or site of phospholipid and steroid hormone production as well as detox
Endoplasmic reticulum
Which type of fibers make up the arrangement of regular vs irregular dense connective tissue?
Collagen fibers
List the layers of the epidermis of thick skin from deepest to most superficial
Stratum basale, stratum spinosum, stratum granulosum, stratum lucidum, stratum corneum
Landmark on the posterior, proximal aspect of the femur, running between and connecting the greater and lesser trochanters.
Intertrochanteric crest
Functional categories of a syndesmosis
Amphiarthrotic or synarthrotic