History
This ancient Greek physician emphasized diet and cleanliness to prevent illness
Who is Hippocrates?
These microscopic structures carry on all function of life
What are cells?
In this reference posture, the body faces forward with palms facing forward
What is anatomic position?
This body system includes the skin and its accessory structures
What is the integumentary system?
This is the number of bones in the adult human skeleton
What is 206?
This invention by Anton van Leewenhoek greatly increased knowledge of the human body.
What is the microscope?
This cell structure controls the cell and contains genetic material
What is the nucleus?
This plane divides the body into equal right and left halves
What is the midsagittal plane?
These glands are also called sweat glands
What are sudoriferous glands?
This process produces red and white blood cells and platelets
What is hematopoiesis?
The Romans used these waterways to bring clean water to communities
What are aqueducts?
This tissue covers surfaces and performs protection, secretion, and absorption
What is epithelial tissue?
This plane separates the body into front and back sections
What is the frontal plane?
These glands produce oil
What are sebaceous glands?
This part of a long bone is its shaft
What is the diaphysis?
Edward Jenner developed a vaccine against this disease
What is smallpox?
This most abundant tissue type supports and connects body structures
What is connective tissue?
The cranial and spinal cavities together form this major cavity
What is the dorsal cavity?
Acne vulgaris and athlete's foot are examples of these
What are diseases or abnormal conditions of the skin?
Of the 12 pairs of ribs, this many pairs are true ribs
What is 7 pairs?
This 21st-century project led to advances in genetic testing and gene therapy
What is the Human Genome Project?
These three varieties make up muscle tissue
What are skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle?
These four abbreviations identify the abdominal quadrants
What are RUQ, LUQ, RLQ, AND LLQ?
Name any three abnormal conditions of the skin listed in the lecture
What is acne vulgaris, athlete's feet, dermatitis, eczema, impetigo, psoriasis, ringworm, verrucae, basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, or melanoma?
These three parts make up the sternum
What are the manubrium, body, and xiphoid process?
During this period, human dissection and the printing press helped revive medical science.
What is the Renaissance?
This thin boundary controls what enters and leaves a cell
This plane divides the body into upper and lower sections
What is the transverse plane?
Hair and nails are accessory structures of this body system
What is the integumentary system?
These ends of a long bone are composed largely of spongy bone
What are the epiphyses?
This deadly disease killed approximately 75% of Europe and Asia during the 1300s.
What is the bubonic plague?
These organelles are commonly called the powerhouses of the cell
What are mitochondria?
The thoracic, abdominal, and pelvic cavities are divisions of this major cavity
What is the ventral cavity?
This term refers to the coloring of the skin
What is pigmentation?
This cavity in the diaphysis contains yellow marrow
What is the medullary canal?
René Laënnec invented this instrument for listening to internal body sounds
What is the stethoscope?
This tissue type transmits messages throughout the body
What is nerve tissue?
These two cavities make up the dorsal cavity
What are the cranial and spinal cavities?
This fungal skin condition is also called tinea pedis
What is athlete's foot?
This outer covering of a bone contains blood vessels and nerves
What is the periosteum?
Lister, Pasteur, and Koch helped introduce methods for controlling this
What is infection?
These specialized nerve cells transmits messages
What are neurons?
These three small cavities contain the eyes, nose, and mouth
What are the orbital, nasal, and buccal cavities?
This contagious bacterial skin condition is commonly seen in children
What is impetigo?
These connective tissues join bone to bone at joints
What are ligaments?
The first open-heart surgery occurred during this century
What is the 20th century?
In order from simplest to most complex, these levels follow cells
What are tissues, organs, and systems?
Name the three regions in the center column of the nine abdominal regions
What are the epigastric, umbilical, and hypogastric regions?
These growths are also called warts
What are verrucae?
Of the five pairs of false ribs, these two pairs do not attach to the sternum
What are floating ribs?