Vocabulary
Feeling structure with the hands
ex. taking a pulse
What is Palpation?
“Do no harm”
What is the Hippocratic Oath?
Individuals with advantageous traits reproduce more successfully
What is Natural Selection?
Single, compete individual
What is an organism?
Certain habits of disciplined creativity, careful observation, logical thinking, and honest analysis of one’s observations and conclusions
What is the scientific method?
Microscopic examination of tissue for diseases
What is Histopathology?
He observed thin shavings of, a cork and saw they consisted of many little boxes which he called cellulae
Who is Robert Hooke?
Natural forces that influence which individuals in a species are more successful at reproducing
What is selection pressure?
A mass of similar cells and cell products that forms a discrete region of an organ
ex. epithelial
What is a tissue?
A process of making numerous observations until one feels confident in drawing generalizations and predictions from them
What is the inductive method?
All living organisms are composed of cells
What is Cell theory?
Invented a simple microscope, and examined a drop of lake water and saw a variety of microorganisms
Who is Antony van Leeuwehoek?
The habit of walking on two legs; defining characteristic of the family Homindae that underlies many skeletal and other characteristics of humans
What is bipedalism?
Microscopic structures in a cell that carry out its individual functions
What are organelles?
Begins by asking a question and formulating a hypothesis
What is the hypothetico-deductive method?
Information that can be independently verified by an trained person
What is a Scientific Fact?
Who was one of the first philosophers to write about anatomy and physiology
Who is Aristotle?
Analyzes how human diseases and dysfunctions can be traced to differences between artificial environment, and prehistoric environment
What is evolutionary medicine?
Groups of at least two or more atoms bonded together
What are molecules?
1. sample size
2. controls
3. psychosomatic effects
4. experimenter bias
5. statistical testing
What is experimental design?
The complementary theory that there are “emergent properties” of the whole organism that can’t be predicted from the properties of its separate parts
ex. looking at the whole person and not just the parts.
emotions, and perceptions of the patient
What is the Holism theory?
Wrote On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Who is Charles Darwin?
Auricularis muscles
ex. above each ear, mammals use them to move their ears
What are vestigial organs?
Chemical reaction within all living organisms
What is metabolism?
A process in which the body senses a change and activates mechanisms that negate or reverse it
What is negative feedback?