Definitions
Branch of science dealing with the form and structure of body parts
What is anatomy?
What is movement?
What is foods?
The spinal cord is located in this region
What is the vertebral canal?
Provides an outer covering
What is the integumentary system?
Dynamic state in which the body's internal environment is maintained (balanced) in the normal range
What is homeostasis?
Reaction to a change inside or outside the body
What is responsiveness?
Used to release energy from food substances
What is oxygen?
The brain is located in this cavity
What is the cranial cavity?
Provides a framework for soft tissues and produces blood cells
What is the skeletal system?
The study of body functions
What is physiology?
Changing absorbed substances into chemically different forms
What is assimilation?
The lungs are located in this cavity
What is the thoracic cavity?
Converts food molecules into absorbable forms
What is the digestive system?
The combined chemical reactions in cells that use or release energy
Increase in body size without change in shape
What is growth?
Application of force to something
What is pressure?
The stomach is located in this cavity
What is the abdominal cavity?
Removes wastes from blood and transports them to outside the body
What is the urinary system?
A mechanism that restores the level of a biochemical or other balance in the internal environment
What is negative feedback?
Production of new organisms and new cells
What is reproduction?
What is heat?
The internal reproductive organs are located in this cavity
Transports excess fluid from tissues to blood
What is the lymphatic system?