Abdominal Areas
Pain caused by appendicitis commonly localizes to this quadrant.
What is the right lower quadrant (RLQ)?
This is the smallest living unit of the human body.
What is a cell?
The brain is protected within this body cavity.
What is the cranial cavity?
This is the most abundant compound in the human body.
What is water?
This is the normal arterial blood pH range.
What is 7.35-7.45?
These organelles are the primary site of ATP production.
What is mitochondria?
The stomach and spleen are primarily located in this abdominal quadrant.
What is the left upper quadrant (LUQ)?
This tissue covers body surfaces and lines internal structures.
What is epithelial tissue?
The heart and lungs are located within this cavity.
What is the thoracic cavity?
This trace element is required to form hemoglobin and transport oxygen.
What is iron?
An arterial blood pH of 7.28 indicates this imbalance.
What is acidosis?
These organelles synthesize proteins.
What are ribosomes?
This quadrant contains most of the liver and the gallbladder.
What is the right upper quadrant (RUQ)?
Blood is classified as this type of tissue.
What is connective tissue?
The stomach, intestines, bladder, and internal reproductive organs are located within this cavity.
What is the abdominopelvic cavity?
Abnormal levels of this electrolyte can cause dangerous cardiac dysrhythmias.
What is potassium?
An arterial blood pH of 7.50 indicates this imbalance.
What is alkalosis?
This organelle modifies, packages, and prepares cellular products for secretion.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
This central abdominal region surrounds the navel.
What is the umbilical region?
This tissue transmits electrical signals throughout the body.
What is nervous tissue?
This spinal region is located in the lower back between the thoracic region and sacrum.
What is the lumbar region?
Tingling and muscle spasms may occur when the level of this electrolyte is too low.
What is calcium?
Sweating when body temperature rises is an example of this feedback mechanism.
What is negative feedback?
This process allows a white blood cell to surround and engulf a bacterium.
What is phagocytosis?
The urinary bladder is primarily located in this lower-middle abdominopelvic region.
What is the hypogastric or pubic region?
These are the five levels of organization from simplest to most complex.
What are chemicals, cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems?
This cavity is formed by the vertebrae and protects the spinal cord.
What is the spinal or vertebral cavity?
Confusion and seizures can occur when the level of this electrolyte becomes severely abnormal.
What is sodium?
After a blood vessel is injured, platelets attach to the damaged area and release chemicals that attract additional platelets until a clot forms. This is an example of this type of feedback mechanism.
What is positive feedback.
This type of transport uses a carrier protein to move glucose from high to low concentration without using energy.
What is facilitated diffusion?