Mixed Bag
A section that cuts the body into right and left halves
What is a sagittal section?
Name for a bone cell
What is an osteocyte?
Movement of this ion into a neuron initiate an action potential
What is sodium?
Describes the body's ability to maintain relatively stable internal conditions
What is homeostasis?
One of the four major tissue types that is found covering or lining a free surface
What is epithelial tissue?
Movement of a limb TOWARD the midline of the body
What is aDduction?
Attachment point of a muscle to the movable bone
What is the insertion?
Name for the heel bone
What is the calcaneus?
Name for a blood clot that persists and develops in an unbroken blood vessel
What is a thrombus?
The two overlapping proteins involved in muscle contraction
What are actin and myosin?
Type of joint that allows movement in one plane; like opening a door
What is a hinge joint?
Structure int eh eye that "accommodates" for up close vision
What is the lens?
Term for blood cell formation
What is hematopoiesis?
Type of fracture where bone breaks incompletely; like the way a twig might break
What is a greenstick fracture?
White matter tract that connects the right and left hemispheres of the brain
What is the corpus callosum?
Part of the brain stem that regulates vital body functions
What is the medulla oblongata?
Blood type that contain both types of antibodies in the plasma and no antigens on the RBCs
What is type O?
The abdominopelvic region that is superior to the umbilical region
What is the epigastric region?
This is the pacemaker of the heart
What is the SA node?
Antagonist to the triceps brachii
What is the biceps brachii?
Wave-like contractions of smooth muscle that propel food through the digestive tract
What is peristalsis?
When the diet lacks roughage the muscles of the colon contract more powerfully and contribute to the formation of these
What are diverticula?
Name of food in digestive tract once mixed with gastric juices
What is chyme?
Area of greatest visual acuity in the eye; has the most cones
What is the fovea centralis?
Starling's Law of the Heart is the critical factor controlling this
What is stroke volume?