Systems
Homeostasis
The Body Plan
Body Cavities and Membranes
Vocabulary
100
A group of organs with a common function
What is an organ system?
100
The maintenance of a stable environment
What is homeostasis?
100
this extends from the shoulder to the elbow
What is the arm?
100
cavity that contains the abdominal and pelvic
What is the abdominopelvic cavity?
100
Anatomic position
What stance would a person stand in to refer to?
200
This system preforms the mechanical and chemical processes of digestion
What is the digestive system?
200
Conditions within the body with values that can change.
What is a variable?
200
Cephalic, trunk, upper limbs, and lower limbs are what
What are the four main regions of the body?
200
The thoracic cavity,abdominal cavity, and pelvic cavity
What three cavities does the trunk contain?
200
A group of similar cells make up this...
What is a tissue?
300
This system contains hair and nails.
What is the Integumentary system?
300
An ideal normal value of the body's temperature
What is a set point?
300
head, neck, and trunk make up a region
What is consists of the central region?
300
this consistes of two layers of peritoneum fused together
What is mesenteries?
300
The wrist is ____ to the shoulder.
What is distal?
400
The Lymphatic system
What system the spleen and lymph nodes?
400
When the body's environment is not normal but comes right back to normal, like drinking water when thirsty.
What is negative feedback?
400
a cut through the long axis of the origin
What is longitudinal section?
400
inflamation of the serour membrane surrounding the lungs
What is pleuralitis?
400
Organization,growth,metabolism, development, and reproduction are examples of what.
What are essential characteristics of life?
500
this system regulates characteristics of life
What is the endocrine system?
500
when the body's environment goes away from normal before coming back.
What is positive feedback?
500
the knee is ____ to the ankle and ____ to the hip
What is proximal and distal?
500
the inflamation of the membrane surrounding the heart
What is pericardialitis?
500
The origin of new words
What is etymology?
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