Anatomical Direction
The agreed stance of the body that is used as a reference when describing location.
What is anatomical position?
The anatomical name for the lower back region of the body.
What is the lumbar region?
This system contains the heart and all the blood vessels.
What is the circulatory system?
The organelle where the DNA is housed in the cell.
What is the nucleus?
This characteristic of the cell membrane helps allow some things into the cell, but not others.
What is semi-permeability?
This term is used to describe parts of the body "above" others.
What is superior?
The name for the anterior elbow.
What is the antecubital region?
The system responsible for monitoring the body's internal environment and responding to changes.
What is the nervous system?
The mitochondria is nick-named the "powerhouse of the cell" due to it's ability to produce this molecule.
What is ATP?
One of two types of membrane transport, this one does not require energy.
What is passive transport?
This word could be used to describe the placement of the ears, relative to the nose.
What is lateral?
This body region can be used to describe part of the hand and the foot.
What is the digital region?
The organs/tissues of the endocrine system communicate with these chemical messengers.
What are hormones?
These structures aid in protein synthesis and are often found associated with another cell organelle.
What are ribosomes?
The condition that dictates the direction solutes will move across the membrane.
What is a concentration gradient?
This term is used to describe placement along a limb or other long part of the body that is close to the point of attachment.
What is proximal?
This region is in the medial abdomen, superior to the pelvic region and inferior the sternal region.
What is the umbilical region?
These two systems work very closely together. One of the systems is also responsible for producing body heat.
What are the skeletal and muscular systems?
The cell membrane is composed primarily of phospholipids, but also contains these large structures, some of which aid in transport.
What are membrane-bound proteins?
The three factors that dictate whether a molecule can cross the cell membrane.
What are size, charge, and polarity?
This term describes the "front" of the body, and is aligned with the inferior portion of the body in a four-legged animal.
What is ventral?
This is the most lateral and proximal part of the shoulder.
What is the deltoid region?
The main organ of this system helps ensure that the blood is isotonic to the cells throughout the body.
What is the excretory system?
Due to it's function, a muscle fiber (cell) has many of this organelle.
What are mitochondria?
What is a hypotonic solution?