Body Systems
Body Cavities
Membranes
Definitions
Directional Terms
100
The support system of the body, provides protection, consists of bones, ligaments, etc.
What is Skeletal System?
100
Bounded by abdominal muscles, contains stomach, liver, spleen, pancreas, and kidneys.
What is the Abdominal Cavity?
100
Surrounds the stomach, stomach
What is Peritoneal?
100
The scientific discipline that investigates the structure of the body.
What is Anatomy?
100
Towards the back of the body.
What is Dorsal?
200
Exchanges oxygen and carbon dioxide between blood and air, contains lungs.
What is Respiratory System?
200
Surrounded by the rib cage, separated from the abdominal cavity by the diaphragm.
What is the Thoracic cavity?
200
Surrounds the heart.
What is pericardial?
200
The scientific discipline that deals with the processes or functions of living things.
What is Physiology?
200
below; lower than
What is Superior?
300
Transports nutrients, waste products, gases, and hormones through the body, consists of heart and blood.
What is Cardiovascular System?
300
The small space enclosed by the pelvic bones.
What is the pelvic cavity?
300
Lines the inner wall of organs.
What is visceral?
300
the small structures that make up cells.
What are Organelles?
300
Closer to a point of attachment
What is Proximal?
400
Removes waste from blood, consists of kidneys, and urinary bladder.
What is Urinary System?
400
The abdominal and pelvic cavities.
What is Abdominopelvic?
400
lines or surrounds the outer wall of organs.
What is Parietal?
400
The formation of new cells or new organisms.
What is Reproduction?
400
Towards the middle or mid line of the body.
What is Medial?
500
Removes foreign substances from the blood and lymph, combats disease, contains the lymph nodes
What is Lymphatic System?
500
Separates the Thoracic cavity into left and right parts.
What is the mediastinum?
500
Lines the trunk cavities/ the organs within.
What is Serous?
500
The origin of a word.
What is Etymology?
500
Toward or on the surface of the body.
What is Superficial?
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