Systems
Structural and Functional Organization
Balance in the Body
Terms
Body Parts and Regions
100
A system that consists of bones, associated cartilages, ligaments, and joints.
What is the skeletal system?
100
The study of the structure of the body.
What is anatomy?
100
The ideal normal value for body temperature.
What is a set point?
100
The origin of words.
What is etymology?
100
Contains the thorax, abdomen, and pelvis.
What is the trunk?
200
A system that performs mechanical and chemical processes of digestion.
What is the digestive system?
200
The scientific discipline that deals with the processes or functions of living things.
What is physiology?
200
The existence and maintenance of a relatively constant environment within the body.
What is homeostasis?
200
A person standing upright, face forward, upper limbs hanging to the sides, and the palms of the hands facing forward.
What is the anatomic position?
200
Another word for thigh.
What is femoral?
300
A system that detects sensations and controls movements.
What is the nervous system?
300
The basic living units of all plants and animals.
What are cells?
300
Maintains variation within a normal range.
What is negative-feedback?
300
Synonym of posterior.
What is dorsal?
300
At the base of the skull.
What is the occipital?
400
A system that influences metabolism, growth, and reproduction.
What is the endocrine system?
400
Small structures that make up cells.
What are organelles?
400
The response of the system is to make the deviation even greater.
What is positive-feedback?
400
Closer to a point of attachment.
What is proximal?
400
Cuts the body into right and left parts.
What is a sagittal plane?
500
A system that transports nutrients, waste products, gases, and hormones throughout the body.
What is the cardiovascular system?
500
Made up of two or more tissue types that perform one or more common functions together.
What is an organ?
500
Establishes the set point around which the variable is maintained.
What is the control center?
500
Away from the midline of the body.
What is lateral?
500
Divides body into inferior and superior parts.
What is a transverse plane?
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