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This term describes closer to the point of attachment.
What is proximal?
This is a group of organized cells that perform a function.
What is a tissue?
These are the muscles attached to the hair follicle.
What are the arrector pili?
This is the name for the part of the neuron that carries information AWAY from the cell body.
What is the axon?
This is total number of bones in the skeleton.
What is 206?
The sternum is __ to the shoulders.
What is medial?
This is the process that allows cells to start as stem cells and become different types of cells with different functions.
What is cell differentiation?
the specific region of the skin where mitosis is always occuring
What is the stratum basale?
The part of the brain that is responsible for coordination and balance.
What is the cerebellum?
This is the name for the ends of a long bone.
What is the epiphysis?
This the term that describe the ability of an organism to maintain stable internal conditions, despite changes occurring on the outside.
What is homeostasis?
Its structure allows it to perform secretion and absorption and often makes up glands
What is simple cuboidal epithelium?
These are the cells that make and secrete a waterproofing substance in the skin.
What are the keratinocytes?
This is the type of nerve pathways that carry information from the brain out to the muscles or glands.
What are efferent pathways?
This is the basic unit of bone tissue.
What is the osteon?
This specific type of feedback that occurs when the body works to return body conditions to normal.
What is negative feedback?
This is a tissue type that is super strong and makes up tendons.
What is dense connective tissue?
This is the layer of the skin where fat is located.
What is the subcutaneous (or hypodermis) layer?
This is the division of the nervous system that controls the heart and breathing.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
This is the name for the process of turning cartilage into bone during development.
What is ossification?
This body system releases hormones that circulate through the blood to target organs
What is the endocrine system?
This is the type of tissue that blood is classified as.
What is connective tissue?
The type of tissue makes up the epidermis
What is stratified squamous epithelium?
The specific division of the nervous system that controls the fight or flight response?
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
This is the name of the concentric rings that make up compact bone.
What are the lamellae?