Anatomy Basics
This body position is used as the universal reference position for anatomy.
What is anatomical position?
The four most abundant elements in the body.
What is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen?
The smallest unit capable of life.
What is a cell?
Movement from an area of high concentration to low concentration.
What is diffusion?
The tissue that covers body surfaces and lines cavities.
What is epithelial tissue?
This anatomical term refers to the wrist.
What is carpal?
An atom becomes this when it gains or loses electrons.
What is an ion?
This organelle forms the outer boundary of the cell.
What is the plasma membrane?
Diffusion of water across a selectively permeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
The muscle type found in blood vessel walls.
What is smooth muscle?
This body plane divides the body into superior and inferior portions.
What is the transverse plane?
Sodium does this during formation of an ionic bond.
What is lose an electron?
This organelle produces most ATP.
What is the mitochondrion?
These proteins help substances cross cell membranes.
What are transport proteins?
The two major cell types of nervous tissue.
What are neurons and glial cells?
This directional term means closer to the point of attachment.
What is proximal?
This particle determines atomic number.
What is a proton?
This structure serves as the control center of the cell.
What is the nucleus?
This membrane pump moves sodium out and potassium in.
What is the sodium-potassium pump?
This tissue predominates in the deep dermis.
What is dense irregular connective tissue?
These levels of organization are arranged from smallest to largest:
cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism.
What are the levels of structural organization?
Hydrogen bonding gives water these two important properties.
What are high cohesion and high heat of vaporization?
The only human cell possessing a flagellum.
What is a sperm cell?
The stages of cellular respiration in correct order.
What are glycolysis, intermediate stage, citric acid cycle, and electron transport system?
The most widely distributed tissue type in the body.
What is connective tissue?