Intro to Anatomy
The body's ability to keep its internal conditions stable.
What is homeostasis?
A balanced solution.
What is isotonic?
The common function of skin, hair, and nails.
What is protection?
The plane that divides the body into front and back halves.
What is frontal plane?
Directional term that means toward the tail or bottom.
What is inferior?
When the body reverses a change in its internal environment to to keep levels at a normal level.
What is negative feedback?
'Function depends on the structure'
What is principle of complementarity?
Area of skin that contains pores and melanocytes
What is epidermis?
Directional term that describes toward the head area.
What is superior?
Directional term that means to be at the surface.
What is superficial?
When the body encourages a change to continue, thereby taking it farther from its normal point.
What is positive feedback?
A cell is placed in a solution that is high in salt (solute). The water inside the cell rushes out in an attempt to balance the salt.
What is hypertonic?
Used to estimate the amount of fluid that needs to be returned to a burn victim.
What is the "Rule of Nines"?
The plane that divides the body into upper and lower halves.
What is transverse?
Directional term that means to be close to the start of an appendage.
What is proximal?
The structure of an organism.
What is anatomy?
A concentration from high to low, no energy required for movement.
What is passive transport?
A guide for surgeons making incisions to reduce scarring.
What are lines of cleavage?
Directional term that means toward the center or middle.
What is medial?
Directional term that means to move away from the middle.
What is lateral?
The lanuage used for the basis of human anatomy.
What is Greek/Latin?
Requires some energy to move large molecules.
What is facilitated diffusion?
Area of skin that contains glands.
What is dermis?
Directional term that means to move toward the end of an appendage?
What is distal?
The plane that divides the human body into right and left portions.
What is midsagittal?