A&P TERMINOLOGY
The study of disease
What is pathology?
Cavity containing organs for gas exchange
What is the thoracic cavity?
Building blocks of proteins
What are amino acids?
Four basic tissue types
What are epithelial, connective, muscle, and nervous?
Tumors that can metastasize
What are malignant tumors?
Prevents skin from drying out
What is sebum?
Term meaning toward the back
What is dorsal?
Charged atom
What is an ion?
Organelle that produces ATP
What is the mitochondria?
Function of stratified epithelium
What is protection from wear and tear?
Disease involving tissue breakdown
What is degenerative disease?
Low oxygen causing blue skin
What is cyanosis?
Plane that divides the body into right and left sides
What is the sagittal plane?
Type of mixture that is salt water
What is a solution?
Water movement toward higher solute concentration
What is osmosis?
Flat epithelial cells
What are squamous cells?
Short-term disease
What is an acute disease?
Bone breakdown by osteoclasts
What is bone resorption?
Body cavity containing the stomach
What is the abdominal cavity?
Substance with a pH of 9.0
What is a base (alkaline)?
Solution that causes blood cells to shrink
What is a hypertonic solution?
Lining of the abdominal cavity
What is a serous membrane?
Microorganism causing Candida
What are fungi?
Muscle attachment that moves
What is insertion?
The diaphragm is ___ to the thoracic cavity
What is inferior?
Dorsal cavity components
What are the cranial and spinal cavities?
Process that decodes mRNA into protein
What is translation?
Dense regular connective tissue location
What are tendons?
Protozoan disease
What is giardiasis?
Duchenne muscular dystrophy outcome
What is progressive weakness and paralysis?