Body Cavities
Anatomical Terminology
Muscle Contraction
Feedback Loops
Anatomy and Physiology
100
This is where the heart is.
What is the ventral cavity, or the thoracic cavity?
100
The synonyms for ventral and dorsal.
What are anterior and posterior?
100
This element is necessary for muscle contraction.
What is Calcium?
100
This organ is the "Control Center."
What is the brain?
100
"Physiology" concerns how the cells, tissues and organs of the body work, meaning it studies their_____________.
What is their function(s)?
200
This is wher the spinal cord is.
What is the dorsal body cavity?
200
Relative to the shoulder, the elbow is ______________and the wrist is_________>
What are proximal and distal?
200
These parts of the sarcomere do not change during muscle contraction?
What are the A-band and Z-band?
200
An "effector" can be either of these two types of organs.
What is a muscle, or a gland?
200
Like the sarcomere is of muscle tissue, this is the functional subunit of bone tissue.
What is the osteon?
300
This membrane lines body cavities.
What is the serous membrane?
300
Relative to the the plantar region, the metatarsal region is____________________.
What is superior?
300
____________moves out of the way to unblock binding sites for myosin on actin.
What is tropomyosin?
300
If a feedback loop regulates room temperature, then the temperature set by the feedback loop is called this__________________________.
What is the set point?
300
This term concerns the physical structure of the body's parts.
What is "anatomy?"
400
This body cavity is beneath the belly button.
What is the abdominal cavity?
400
Transverse sections are_____________relative to each other.
What is lateral?
400
The myosin heads form___________-____________when they attach to the expoosed binding sites on the actin.
What are cross-bridges?
400
In this type of feedback loop, the response of the feedback loop reverses the original stimulus.
What is a "negative" feedback loop?
400
From the perspective of its anatomy and physiology, this is the most basic structure in the nervous system.
What is the "nerve cell?"
500
It is another, more specific specific name for the ventral cavity.
What is abdominopelvic cavity?
500
Any two other anatomical structures that are lateral.
What are the________________________________?
500
The cross bridge is broken when an________molecule binds to the myosin head.
What is an ATP?
500
In this type of feedback, the magnitude of the stimulus increases until the result is achieved.
What is "positive" feedback?
500
From the perspective of structure and function, the muscular system contains these three basic types of muscle cells and tissues.
What are skeletal, smooth and cardiac?
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