Anatomical Basics: Directions, Cavities, & Regions
Nervous System: CNS & ANS
Skeletal System & Bones
Muscular System & Muscles of the Body
Endocrine System & Hormones
100
Push-ups require this anatomical position.
What is prone?
100
These are the smallest units that make up the basis of the nervous system.
What are neurons?
100
These are the main functions of the skeletal system.
What are support, protection, and calcium storage?
100
The muscular system is composed of these three types of muscles.
What are smooth, striated, and cardiac?
100
This is the primary hormone responsible for the development of secondary male characteristics.
What is testosterone?
200
Antecubital describes this body region.
What is the elbow?
200
These are specialized cells that provide primarily structural and metabolic support for other cells.
What are glia or glial cells?
200
New blood cells are constantly being produced in this kind of bone.
What is spongy bone?
200
This shortens when a muscle contracts.
What is a sarcomere?
200
Too much or too little of this can lead to dwarfism or gigantism.
What is growth hormone?
300
"Crural" injury would describe an injury of this body part.
What is the calf?
300
These are responsible for the transmission of signals across neural membranes and through the brain and body.
What are neurotransmitters?
300
These build bone on a microscopic level.
What are osteoblasts?
300
This muscle is a large, flat, dorso-lateral muscle on the trunk, posterior to the arm, and partly covered by the trapezius.
What is the latissimus dorsi?
300
This gland controls appetite and metabolism.
What is the thyroid?
400
These two words are synonyms for the plane that divides the body into left and right sections.
What are the sagittal and axial planes?
400
This is a form of temporary facial paralysis resulting from damage or trauma to one of the facial nerves.
What is Bell's Palsy?
400
In the space between two articulating ends of bones, an articular capsule uses this to cushion the joint.
What is synovial fluid?
400
These muscles can move autonomously.
What are cardiac muscles?
400
This characteristic makes hormones different than neurotransmitters.
What is method of locomotion? i.e., NTs travel across synapses while hormones travel through blood stream.
500
The mediastinum contains these 4 organs.
What are the trachea, esophagus, thymus, and heart?
500
Multiple sclerosis, a debilitating and degenerative neuromuscular disease, is caused by this.
What is autoimmunity that causes damage to the myelin sheath?
500
This is the largest bone in the foot.
What is the calcaneus?
500
This is the process of muscle contraction on a microscopic scale.
What is The myosin heads move in a coordinated style, they swivel toward the center of the sarcomere, detach and then reattach to the nearest active site of the actin filament. This is called a rachet type drive system. This process consumes large amounts of ATP.
500
This is the function of progesterone in the placenta.
What is protecting and nourishing a growing fetus?