Vocabulary
Directional Terms
Organ System
Organ System
randoms
100
The study of the STRUCTURE of the human body.
What is anatomy?
100
The forehead is ________ to the chin.
What is superior?
100

Arteries, veins and capillaries.

What are blood vessels?

100

The main function is to obtain nutrients from food.

What is the digestive system?

100

A disease of the pancreas with high level of blood glucose.

What is diabetes?

200
The study of the FUNCTION of the human body.
What is physiology?
200
Muscles are _______ to the skin.
What is deep?
200

Cells that hormones work on.

What are target cells?

200
The major organ is skin.
What is integumentary system?
200

What leukocyte is made by the lymphatic system?

What are lymphocytes?

300
The voice box.
What is the larynx?
300

The gluteus maximus is on the _______ side of the body.

What is posterior?

300

A body system that filters your blood.

What is urinary system?

300

Hematopoeisis takes place here.

What is the bones or bone marrow?

300

The ability of a muscle to return to its original shape.

What is elasticity?

400

Which arm is drained by the thoracic duct?

What is left?

400
The patella (knee) is _______ to the femur (thighbone).
What is distal?
400

A small, shriveled up muscle.

What is atrophy?

400
Major organ is the spleen.
What is lymphatic system?
400

The functional unit of the kidney

What is nephron?

500
Formation of red blood cells.
What is hematopoeisis?
500
The spine is _______ to the ribcage.
What is medial?
500

The specific system made up of the skull, ribs, spine and pelvis.

What is the axial skeletal system?

500

The waste that is removed from blood by the kidneys.

What is urine?

500

The structure shared by the respiratory and digestive systems?

What is pharynx?

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