Body Systems
Homeostasis and feedback
Directional Terms
Sections and Cavities
Miscellaneous
100
The body system that rids your body of wastes in the form of urine and/or feces
excretory system
100
What is the existence and maintenance of a relatively constant internal environment?
Homeostasis
100
The foot is what to the hips?
Inferior
100
What section divides into equal lateral sides (into a left and right)?
Midsagittal
100
Define Anatomy
The study of structure of the human body
200
How many organ systems do we have in our body?
11
200
Labor contractions is an example of this
Positive feedback
200
The directional term for towards the middle is
Medial
200
What are the two cavities that comprise (make up) the dorsal body cavity?
Spinal and Cranial Cavity
200
Define Physiology
The study of the function of the structures within the body
300
Major organs include white blood cells and thymus
The Lymphatic System
300
The component of feedback that senses the stimulus
The receptor
300
The term for above in anatomy
Superior
300
If I get my leg cut off at the knee dividing into upper and lower portions, what kind of section did I use?
Transverse
300

What is two or more tissues working together organized to form?

Organ

400
The only body system you can live without
The reproductive system
400
What tends to stabilize a process by reducing its rate or output when its effects are too great
Negative feedback
400
Defined as being away from the trunk of the body or the point of attachment
Distal
400
What body section divides into a ventral and posterior? (Front and back)
Frontal
400
A neuron is an example of this level of organization
Cellular
500
This system controls the release of the hormone insulin so that we regulate our sugar intake.
Endocrine System
500
DAILY DOUBLE: How does our body thermoregulate? What kind of feedback is this?
Sweating, it is negative feedback
500
Location of the vertebral in relation to the sternal
Posterior or dorsal
500
What separates the thoracic from the abdominopelvic cavity?
The diaphragm
500
When the abdominopelvic region is divided what is the center region?
Umbilical Region
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