Cells/Tissue
cellular structure best described as a phospholipid bilayer
What is the cell plasma membrane
Where you would find thick skin
What are the palms and soles
Bone category which includes the sternum
What is flat bone
Muscle term meaning "on the thumb side" of the arm
What is radial(is)
Refers to nerves carrying information away from the brain
What is efferent
Used by epithelial cells to increase surface area
microvilli
Cartilaginous shock absorbers in the knee
What are menisci
A common word for a hole within a bone
What is foramen (also accept meatus)
The three types of muscle tissue
What are skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle
Part of the neuron which conducts the electrical impulse (action potential)
What are neurotransmitters
The connective tissue type which includes bone
What is connective tissue
"stinky" sweat glands found in the groin and axilla
What are apocrine sweat glands
The portion of a long bone proximal to the proximal growth plate (physis)
What is the epiphysis
The nerve which innervates most muscles of facial expression
What is the facial nerve
The largest nerve in the body
What is the sciatic nerve
The type of epithelial cells used on protective surfaces
stratified (squamous usually)
Movement of a limb away from the longitudinal axis of the body
What is abduction
The largest "soft spot" on an infants head
What is the anterior fontanelle
A muscle term which means "deep" in relation to another more superficial muscle
profundus
Chemicals released at the synaptic cleft
What are Schwann cells
The four major tissue types
Muscle, nervous, connective, epithelia
The most commonly dislocated joint in the body
What is the glenohumeral joint
Fracture which occurs along the horizontal axis of the bone and maintains good bone alignment (hint: requires two different descriptive terms)
What is a Non-displaced, transverse fracture
Where neurotransmitters are released causing muscle contraction
What is the neuromuscular junction (accept motor endplate as well)
Supportive cells which produce myelin in the peripheral nervous system
What are Schwann cells