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This is the study of body structures, microscopic and macroscopic.
What is anatomy?
This is an organized group of tissues.
What is an organ?
This is the largest organ of the body.
What is the skin?
The brain and spinal cord make up what part of the nervous system?
What is the CNS?
These are bones that are not long, not short and not flat.
What are irregular bones?
This is the system that includes the kidneys, ureters and bladder
What is the urinary system?
This type of tissue that appears to be layered due to nuclei at different levels, but really is only one layer.
What is psuedostratified epithelium?
This is the protection of unvaccinated individuals that is accomplished by having a large number of the population vaccinated.
What is herd immunity?
The skeletal muscles control is part of this division of the nervous system.
What is the somatic nervous system?
This mineral is stored in bone and makes the bone hard.
What is calcium?
This is the term for the back of the knee
What is popliteal?
These are the four types of tissues in the human body. (Name all four.)
What are epithelial, connective, muscle and nervous tissue?
These are substances in the environment that cause the body to form antibodies for pet dander, pollen, etc.
What are antigens?
The substance that travels across the space between the end of one neuron and the target (another neuron, muscle or organ target)
What is a neurotransmitter?
This is the term for the changes that bone goes through as bones repair or as bone gets older.
What is remodeling? (or bone remodeling)
This is the term to describe the relationship of the heart to the vertebrae
What is anterior?
This is the type of tissue found in the outer ear.
What is elastic cartilage?
This is the specific type of sweat gland in the armpit and groin region that is active during stress.
What is an apocrine gland?
This is the name of the types of nerves that branch from the spinal cord and go out to the arms, legs and organs.
What are the peripheral nerves?
type of bone that makes up the bone marrow
What is spongy bone?
This is the quadrant where you would find the appendix
What is the right lower quadrant?
This is the only place in the body where you find transitional epithelium.
What is the urinary bladder?
These are the five layers in order that makeup the epidermis, from superficial to deep. (List all 5).
What are stratum corneum, stratum lucidum, stratum granulosum, stratum spinosum, stratum basal?
These are the type of neuroglia cells that wrap around the axon of neurons in the Central Nervous System.
What are oligodendrocytes?
This is the type of bone cell that destroys bone to release calcium into the blood.
What is osteoclast?