Unit 1 - Organization
The smallest unit of all living things.
What is the cell?
The 4 main types of tissues.
What are epithelium, connective, muscle, and nervous tissues?
What are the epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis?
The purpose of the skeletal system.
What is:
- To protect and support soft organs
- Movement
- Storage of minerals (calcium)
- blood cell formation (hematopoiesis)
What is a ball-and-socket joint?
The term for "towards the head".
What is superior (cranial)?
One of the categories of epithelial cells.
What are squamous cells, cuboidal cells, and columnar cells?
Another name for the oil secreted from the sebaceous glands.
What is "sebum"?
The 4 parts of the vertebrae.
What are the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacral vertebrae?
The type of fracture more common in elderly people.
The term for closer to the trunk of the body.
What is "proximal"?
Name 2 types of connective tissue.
What are bone, cartilage, tendons, ligaments, areolar, and adipose tissue?
The two layers of the dermis.
What are the papillary layer and reticular layer?
The three bones responsible for hearing. (The anatomical names)
What are the malleus, incus, and stapes?
The type of tumors that are dangerous because they are cancerous.
What is malignant?
The cavity that contains the lungs and heart, separated by the diaphragm.
What is the thoracic cavity?
The only liquid connective tissue.
Another name for bruise.
What is a hematoma?
The two types of cells involved in bone formation.
What are osteoblasts and osteoclasts?
The most common type of skin cancer (and most treatable).
What is basal cell carcinoma?
The body is organized into ______ different organ systems.
What is 11 different organ systems?
The term for slow, wave-like contractions in smooth muscle tissue.
What is peristalsis?
This is considered a critical burn injury.
What is the following:
The name of the second cervical vertebrae (C2).
What is the axis?
The type of coloring of the skin due to liver failure, most commonly caused by alcoholism.
What is jaundice?