Anatomical Terminilogy
Means towards the front.
What is anterior?
The basic unit of structure and function
What is a cell?
This area of science taken from Greek for "a cutting up" examines the structures of body parts.
What is anatomy?
The increase in cell number and size and increase in body size.
What is growth?
This cavity houses the brain.
What is cranial?
Toward the side, away from midline
What is lateral?
Groups of different tissues.
What are organs?
This area of medical science taken from Greek for "relationships to nature" focuses on the functions of body parts.
What is physiology?
The production of new cells and organisms.
What is reproduction?
This cavity includes an upper abdominal portion and a lower pelvic portion.
What is abdominopelvic?
The opposite of proximal; means body part is farther from point of attachment to the trunk.
What is distal?
Interacting organ systems make up these.
What are organisms?
The environment within the body in which the cells live.
What is the internal environment?
The reaction to a change inside or outside the body.
What is responsiveness?
This broad, thin muscle separates the thoracic cavity from the abdominopelvic cavity?
What is the diaphragm?
Near the surface.
What is superficial?
Complex structures with specialized function formed from groups of different tissues.
The maintenance of relatively constant internal environment.
What is homeostasis?
The change in body position or location; motion of internal organs.
What is movement?
This compartment forms a boundary between the right and left sides of the thoracic cavity.
What is the mediastinum?
Structures on the same side.
What is ipsilateral?
Specialized cells assembled into layers or masses that have specific functions.
What is tissue?
Knowledge about the human body came from this method.
What is the scientific method?
The sum of all chemical reactions in a living systems; Energy and nutrient cycling which includes respirations, digestion, circulation, and excretion.
What is metabolism?
This cavity contains the spinal cord and is surrounded by sections of vertebrae.
What is vertebral canal or spinal cavity?