A&P Foundations
The study of how an organism's body functions.
What is Physiology?
The layer of the epidermis that is constantly dividing and pushing up cells into the next layer.
What is the Stratum Basale
The bone classification of the scapula.
What is a Flat Bone?
The characteristic of muscle tissue that provides the ability to lengthen or stretch, even past their original shape.
What is Extensibility?
The location that blood cells are produced.
What is bone marrow?
The body system that's function is to detect impulses from the senses; control center.
What is the nervous system?
The layer of skin composed of dense irregular connective tissue and contains nerves, blood vessels, sweat glands, and hair follicles.
What is the Dermis?
Connect muscle to bone.
What are tendons?
Muscle tissue that is found in walls of internal organs (ex: stomach)
What is Smooth Muscle?
One of the three main types of blood cells that help the blood clot by clumping together and forming a clot at the injury site.
What are platelets?
A necessary function of life that let's some substance in and keeps others out.
What is Maintaining Boundaries?
The tiny muscles that are attached to the hair shaft to make hair "Stand on end".
What are arrector pili muscles?
The covering around the ends of the epiphyses of a long bone which provide smooth movement of joints and cushion from shock.
What is articular cartilage?
The opposing muscle that relaxes during motion (Ex: Biceps Brachii & Triceps brachii)
What is the Antagonist?
The blood vessel that carry blood away from the heart. They are the largest and strongest blood vessels.
What are arteries?
What is distal?
The sudoriferous gland that are abundance and often found on the palms, soles of feat, and forehead.
What is the Eccrine Gland?
The primary and secondary curvatures of the spine that allow for better balance and distribution of weight throughout the body.
What are convex and concave?
The name of the process that causes muscle fibers to contract using ATP energy.
What is sliding filament theory?
The 4 main blood types
What are A, B, AB, and O?
The anatomical plane that divides the the top half of the body from the bottom half at the waist.
What is a Transverse Plane?
The gland that produces sebum and functions to lubricate skin, hair, and kill bacteria.
What is the sebaceous (oil) glands?
Joins that are immovable or slightly moveable and held together by fibrous connective tissue (Ex: Joints in the skull & teeth)
What are Fibrous Joints?
The two filaments that work together to produce a muscle contraction by pulling the muscle fibers towards the M-line and shortening the muscle fiber.
What are Actin and Myosin?
A disease that causes a lack of red blood cells or of hemoglobin (the protein that carries oxygen in the blood) that reduces supply of oxygen to tissues.
What is anemia?