A/P Definitions
Anatomical Direction
Membranes/Cavities
Chemical Definitions
Chemical reactions/compounds
100
The study of structure and the study of function.
What is anatomy and physiology?
100
The ventral side of the body
What is anterior?
100
The coverings for organs
What are membranes?
100
atoms or molecules that have an electric charge
What are ions?
100
What is used to store genetic information?
What are nucleic acids?
200
A stable, internal environment
What is homeostasis?
200
The belly button is what to the chin?
What is inferior?
200
What membrane covers the lungs?
What is the pleural membrane?
200
atoms of the same element with different numbers of neutrons
What are isotopes?
200
What is the synthesis of new compounds in the body?
What is anabolism?
300
The study of disease
What is pathology?
300
What plane cuts through the mid-line of the body dividing it into left and right parts?
What is midsagittal?
300
What protect organs and allow them to change shape and size without interfering with the rest of the body?
What are body cavities?
300
inorganic compounds whose ions can conduct electricity in solution
What are electrolytes?
300
The decomposition reactions of complex molecules within cells.
What is catabolism?
400
By putting on more clothes when one is cold it is a regulation mechanism of what?
What is negative feedback?
400
A cut closest to the surface of the body, is said to be what?
What is superficial?
400
The diaphragm separates these two cavities
What are the thoracic and abdominopelvic cavities?
400
Name the four organic compounds of the body
What are: carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids?
400
What chemicals speed up reactions that support life?
What are enzymes?
500
Name the three components of homeostatic regulation
What are receptor, control center, and effector?
500
What thee cuts are used to separate the body into three planes?
What are transverse, frontal/coronal, and sagittal?
500
Name three membranes and what they cover
What are parietal- wall of the cavity(superficial) visceral- covers an organ(deep) pleura- lungs pericardium- heart peritoneum- abdominopelvic cavity
500
A pain in the left arm during a heart attack is an example of what?
What is referred pain?
500
Name four of the seven protein functions
What are: support, movement, transport, buffering, metabolic regulation, coordination-communication-control, defense?
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