Organization
The basic unit of life.
What is a cell?
The wrist is _____________ to the fingers.
What is proximal?
When an organ is cut to separate the front from the back.
What is a frontal plane?
Something that gathers information and sends a signal to a control center.
What is a sensor?
The structures of the body, where they are, and what they are called.
What is anatomy?
A group of cells that carry out a common function.
What is a tissue?
The bladder is _____________ and ______________ to the kidneys.
What are inferior and medial?
A transverse plane separates the ____________ and the _______________ aspects of the body. (Anatomical directions only, please!)
What are superior and inferior?
Any organ of the body that carries out an order to bring a factor under control.
What is an effector?
The study of how the systems of the body function.
What is physiology?
This system includes skin, hair, and nails.
What is the integumentary system?
If you do a lunge on your left leg with a 15 pound weight in your left hand, it is this kind of exercise.
What is ipsilateral?
The division between the superior and inferior part of the ventral body cavity.
What is the diaphragm?
A regulatory mechanism in which a 'stimulus' causes an opposite 'output' in order to maintain an ideal level of whatever is being regulated.
The function of the diaphragm.
to expand the chest and allow the lungs to fill with air.
This system includes the kidneys, lungs, skin, and bladder.
What is the excretory system?
The name for the body region of the leg.
What is crural?
The two main body cavities inside the ventral body cavity, which are separated by the diaphragm.
What are the thoracic and abdominopelvic cavities?
What is a positive feedback loop?
This endocrine organ regulates blood sugar levels.
What is the pancreas?
The thymus gland has a role in both of these body systems.
Heidi has pain in her right hypochondriac region and the doctor suspects a problem in this organ.
What is liver or gallbladder?
The organ found in the right pleural cavity.
What is the right lung?
The 5 main "players" in a negative feedback loop.
What are factor, sensor, integrating center, effector, and result?
When using directional terminology, you should always assume the subject is in this position.
What is anatomical position?