Planes and Directions
Divides the body into superior/inferior
What is the transverse plane?
The other word for frontal plane
What is coronal plane?
When cells of the same type join to form a common task
What is a tissue
Keeping a state of balance in the body
Homeostasis
An increase in a number of cells.
What is hyperplasia?
Divides the body into anterior/posterior
What is Frontal Plane
Another word for anterior
What is ventral
Carries messages throughout the body to direct its activities
Whyat is Nervous tissue
Systems working together to support human life
What is interdependence
Cells changing in structure and uncontrolled growth
What is neoplasia?
Divides the body into equal Left and Right Halves
What is Midsagittal
Another word for Posterior
What is distal
Contracts to allow the body to move
What is Muscle tissue
Answers could include genetic development errors, infection, poison, nutritional deficiency
What are possible causes of disease
A decrease in cell size as a result of age or disease
What is Atrohpy
What are distal and proximal
The opposite of medial
What is lateral
Tissue that provides structure and support for the body and helps hold organs in their body cavities
What is connected tissue
Signs that disease can be measured
What are objective
When a tumor spreads to another part of the body
What is metstasis
Toward the head and the opposite toward the tail/feet
What are cephalic and caudal
The word for internal
What is Visceral
Tissue that covers internal and external body structures and forms glands
Epithelial
Symptoms like blurry vision, pain and dizziness
What are subjective
acquired immunity by intentional exposure
What is artificial immunity?