Skeletal System
The soft, spongy tissue that fills the cavities of bones and produces the cellular components of blood.
What is bone marrow?
The three major subdivisions of the brain.
What is the cerebrum, cerebellum, and the brain stem?
The band of tough, fibrous tissue that connect muscles to bones.
What is a tendon?
The decrease in angle of a joint (bending elbow, bending knee, bending at waist)
What is Flexion?
The tendency of the body to seek and maintain a condition of balance or equilibrium within its internal environment, even when faced with external changes.
What is homeostasis?
The Type of bone that makes up the diaphysis.
What is compact bone?
The component of the nervous system that is sort of like a highway.
What is the spinal cord?
The contractile units of a myofibril responsible for the striated appearance.
What is a sarcomere?
The superior movement (a shrug, shoulders up)
What is Elevation?
The integumentary system synthesizes.
What is Vitamin D?
The type of bone that makes up the epiphysis.
What is spongy bone?
The part of the peripheral nervous system that regulates activities over which there is voluntary control. (walking, talking, riding a bike)
What is the somatic nervous system?
The layer of fibrous tissue that separates muscles from each other and from the skin
What is fascia?
The movement of a limb in the coronal plane toward the body/midline. ("adding" a limb to the body.) (related to the inside muscle of the thigh)
What is Adduction?
The amount of layers of the skin.
What is three layers?
The three parts is the appendicular skeleton divided into.
What is the pectoral girdle, pelvic girdle, and limbs?
The part that controls the many body functions that occur without voluntary control. (digestion, dilation and constriction of blood vessels)
What is the autonomic Nervous System?
The bones, cartilage, and connective tissue covering.
What are the sites of muscle attachment?
The circular movement that maintains a fixed proximal position, while drawing an imaginary circle in the air at the distal end.
What is Circumduction?
The epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis.
What are the three layers of the skin?
The process that ossifies bones that originate as hyaline cartilage.
What is epichondrial ossification?
The muscles in the digestive system the brain controls.
What is all of the muscles involoved in eating and drinking?
The specialized plasma membrane.
What is the membrane sarcolemma?
The bending of the sole of the foot by curling the toes toward the ground (tip toes)
What is plantar flexion?
The protection, regulation of body temperature, communication, excretion of wastes, and vitamin D production.
What are the basic functions of the Integumentary system?