Anatomy and Physiology
The body's largest organ
What is the skin?
This cellular organelle is responsible for modifying and packaging proteins
What is the golgi apparatus?
This prefix means “slow” and is used in a term meaning “slow heart rate”
What is Brady-?
Glycogen is the way the body stores glucose - better known by this common name.
What is sugar?
The muscle type found only in the heart.
What is cardiac muscle?
This process explains how water moves through a semipermeable membrane from low to high solute concentration
What is osmosis?
This suffix means “surgical removal”
What is -ectomy?
Otolaryngologists specialize in treating this/these part(s) of the body
What are the ear, nose and throat?
This part of the neuron receives signals
What is the dendrite?
This is the term for a trait influenced by multiple genes, often seen in traits like height and skin color.
What is a polygenic trait?
This prefix means “within” and is used in a term describing fluid given directly into a vein
What is -intra?
This type of medication is used for pain relief
What are analgesics?
The only human body cells without mitochondria
What is the red blood cell?
This bacterial process involves uptake of foreign DNA from the environment and integration into the genome.
What is transformation?
This suffix means “enlargement” and is used in a term for an enlarged heart
What is -megaly?
CPR stands for this
What is Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation?
This specialized cardiac cell type is responsible for the spontaneous depolarization that initiates the heartbeat
What are pacemaker cells?
This process results in different mRNAs being produced from the same pre-mRNA transcript, increasing protein diversity.
What is alternative splicing?
This term means “excessive growth” and appears in abnormal tissue formation
What is hyperplasia?
This organ is removed during a cholecystectomy
What is the gallbladder?