Anatomy Terms
What is the anatomical term for the cuticle?
What is eponychium?
What is the body's process of self-regulation and stable internal conditions?
What is homeostasis?
What structure regulates the intracellular environment?
The coronal plane divides the body into what cavities?
What are ventral and dorsal cavities?
What is histology?
[blank] is distal to the palmar region?
What is digital?
What is the primary function of epithelial tissue lining the small intestine?
What is absorbing nutrients from digested food?
Membrane fluidity is made possible by [blank]?
What are the lipid bilayer, integral proteins, and cholesterol?
What cavity is inferior to the thoracic cavity?
What is abdominal cavity?
What tissue has intercalated discs and striations?
What is cardiac muscle tissue?
The mediastinum is what [blank] to the pericardial?
What is superior?
If a cell's external environment has a higher solute concentration than its internal environment, what conditions is the cell experiencing?
What membrane lines the organ walls and cavities of the thoracic and abdominopelvic cavities?
What is serous membrane?
Connective tissue is characterized by what three elements?
What are ECMs, specialized cells, and ground substance?
[blank] is the first line of defense found in the epidermal layer of skin?
What are langerhans cells?
What signaling molecule fuels "second inflammation?"
What type of exocrine gland is found during embryonic development but is not typically present as a mature gland in humans?
What is simple acinar glands?
What cavities make up the ventral abdominal thoracic cavities?
What are the mediastinum, pleural, pericardial, abdominal, and pelvic cavities?
What type of epithelial tissue is specialized for rapid diffusion and lines the alveoli of the lungs?
What is simple squamous epithelium?
If a patient has pain in the left femoral and right brachial regions, they are experiencing [blank] pain?
What is contralateral pain?
Which internal organ directly converts vitamin D into its active form, calcitriol, for use in the skeleton?
What are the kidneys?
What type of cell junction uses protein channels called connexons to allow ions and small molecules to pass directly between neighboring cells?
What is gap junctions?
What region of the abdominal cavity is the appendix found in?
What is right inguinal?
What type of tissue contains chondrocytes in lacunae and provides flexible support in structures such as the external ear?
What is elastic cartilage?