Ch. 10 Intro to the Human Body
The most abundant protein in the body
What is collagen?
The brain and spinal cord make up this subsection of the nervous system.
What is the central nervous system?
When not enough of a hormone is secreted.
What is hyposecretion?
When the outer layer of skin becomes damaged by UV light.
What is a sunburn?
Connect bone to bone.
What are ligaments?
When cells don't get the needed resources and waste accumulates in the body
What is homeostatic imbalance?
Production of new neurons by cell division
What is neurogenesis?
The type of cell on which a hormone has an effect.
What is a target cell?
2 main layers of the skin
The number of bones in an adult skeleton (usually).
The 2 systems that regulate organ systems
What is the nervous system and the endocrine system?
Brain part that coordinates body movements.
What is the cerebellum?
What type of feedback loop controls most endocrine hormones?
What is a negative feedback loop?
3 main functions of hair.
What is insulation, UV light protection, and sensory receptors?
States that tissues and bones adapt according to the stress put on them.
What is Wolff's Law?
4 basic types of tissue
What is connective, epithelial, muscle, and nervous?
Occurs because of a difference in electrical charge across the plasma membrane of a neuron.
What is a nerve impulse?
The type of diabetes where there is insulin resistance and impaired insulin secretion.
What is Type 2 Diabetes?
Functions of the skin.
What is regulates body temperature, protects from UV sunlight, makes vitamin D, prevents water loss, protects from pathogens, secretes waste via sweat
When muscle fibers become narrower/grow smaller.
What is atrophy?
The 5 Vital Organs
What are the heart, brain, liver, kidneys, and lungs?
The 2 subdivisions of the autonomic nervous system.
What is sympathetic and parasympathetic?
List the endocrine glands.
What are the thyroid, pituitary, parathyroid, pineal, pancreas, adrenal, gonad, and thymus?
Asymmetry, border regularity, color evenness, diameter, evolving
The 3 main types of muscle tissues.
What are skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle tissues?