Functions of Systems
Toward the head.
What is superior?
The major organs in the respiratory systems.
What are the lungs?
The location of the cephalic region.
What is the head?
In anatomical the position, the position of the palms.
What is facing forward?
This system allows movement.
What is the muscular system?
Closer to the point of attachment.
What is proximal?
This system includes the trachea, bronchi, and alveoli.
What is the respiratory system?
This region has the same name, because it is in the same area, as the cavity that contains the intestines.
What is the abdominal region?
The relative position of skin to bones.
What is superficial to deep?
System that removes solid waste from the body.
What is the digestive system?
The two terms that refer to the back.
What are dorsal and posterior?
The main parts of the endocrine system.
What are the glands?
The body region (and cavity) where the heart and lungs are found.
What is thoracic?
The two systems that move substances throughout the body.
What are the cardiovascular and lymphatic systems?
The main function of the digestive system.
What is to break down food?
The rib cage is (what two terms) in relation to the spiinal column.
What are dorsal and posterior?
The three major components of the nervous system.
What are the brain, spinal cord, and nerves (sensory receptors are also acceptable)?
The primary organs in the pelvic region.
What are the reproductive organs?
The system where blood cells are made.
What is the skeletal system?
The system that eliminated liquid wastes from the body.
This system removes liquid wastes from the body.
What is the excretory system?
Two terms that would describe the relationship of the foot to the thigh.
What are distal and inferior?
Component of blood and also part of the immune system.
What are white blood cells?
The center region of the nine regions in your book is the umbilical region. Give the terms that describe the regions immediately above and below this region.
What are the epigastic and hypogastric regions?
The condition of maintaining a stable internal enviornment.
What is homeostasis?