Medical Terminology
What is a steady state, a condition of internal stability and constancy?
What is Homeostasis?
What is the term for an abnormal and uncontrolled growth of tissue?
What is Neoplasia?
What system is the skin and its associated glands. hair, and nails called?
What is the integumentary system?
What is the band of connective tissue that attaches a muscle to a bone?
What is a tendon?
What is the largest part of the brain?
What is the cerebrum?
What is the basic structural and functional unit of the living organism, a microscopic unit that combines with other cells to form tissues?
What is a cell?
What is when white blood cells engulf foreign organisms by the process of?
What is a protein that thickens and toughens the skin and makes up hair and nails?
What is keratin?
What does the word Kinesis mean?
What is movement?
What system controls involuntary responses?
What is Autonomic nervous system?
What is an enzyme?
What is a reason for not using a specific drug?
What is contraindication?
What is a skin gland that produces sebum usually associated with a hair follicle?
What is sebaceous gland?
What is a muscle that opposes an agonist: it must relax when the agonist contracts?
What is antagonist?
What is the scientific name for sense of smell?
What is olfaction?
What is the plane that passes from front to back and divides the body into right and left portions?
What is the Sagittal Plane?
What is a malignant neoplasm composed of epithelial cells?
What is a Carcinoma?
What is the layer of tissue beneath the skin: also called the hypodermis?
What is the subcutaneous layer?
What is the muscle that assists a prime mover to produce a given movement?
What is a synergist?
What is the scientific name for the white of the eye?
What is Sclera?
What is a complex sugar compound stored in liver and muscles and broken down into glucose when needed for energy?
What is Glycogen?
What is the root for Rupture?
What is -Rhexis?
What is the root word for hair?
What is trich/o?
What is a group of hereditary diseases involving progressive, noninflammatory muscular degeneration?
What is muscular dystrophy?
What is an extreme persistent fear?
What is Phobia?