Week One
Physiology
CHON
What is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen?
Epigastric, umbilical, iliac.
What are regions of the abdomen?
Interstitial fluid, lymph and plasma.
What is extracellular fluid, ECF?
Larger molecules broke down to smaller molecules.
What is Catabolism?
The term that describes the chemical and physiological processes that occur in the body?
What is metabolism?
Charged particle.
What is an electrolyte?
Right upper quadrant RUQ.
What is a quadrant of the abdomen?
What is a cation?
Information is sensed causing an opposite response.
What is negative feedback?
Building larger molecules from smaller molecules.
What is Anabolism?
Potassium
What is the major intracellular cation?
Blood buffers
pH
What is the measurement of hydrogen ions in a solution?
What is the levels of organization in the body?
Water, food, oxygen, temperature and pressure.
What are basic physiological needs?
7.35 - 7.45
What is the pH of human blood?
Necessary to build proteins in the body.
Amino Acids
The structural unit of carbohydrates.
What is a monosaccharide?
Substances that dissolve in water and release hydrogen ions.
What are acids?
Body is upright, face forward, palms forward.
What is anatomical position?
The most abundant compound in the body?
What is water?
The major extracellular cation.
What is Sodium?
Found in minute quantities, essential for physiological processes.
What are trace elements?
Carries a negative charge.
What is an anion?