Med Terms
-cyte
cell
This cavity contains the brain.
What is the cranial cavity?
List the 4 quadrants of the abdomen
RUQ, RLQ, LUQ, LLQ
Toward the head is described as this.
What is superior?
This part carries out the response to bring the body back toward normal.
What is the effector?
a-
without, not
This cavity contains the lungs.
What is the thoracic cavity?
The liver is primarily located in this quadrant.
What is the RUQ?
The nose is ___ to the ears.
What is medial?
This part detects a change in the body.
What is the sensor?
-dynia
pain
This cavity contains the urinary bladder and reproductive organs.
What is the pelvic cavity?
Pain in the lower right abdomen may make a healthcare worker think about this organ.
What is the appendix?
The skin is ___ to the muscles.
What is superficial?
This part receives information from the sensor and decides what response is needed.
What is the integrator?
-itis
inflammation
The dorsal cavity contains these two cavities.
What are the cranial and vertebral cavities?
The region located directly below the umbilical region is called what?
Hypogastric region
This plane divides the body into anterior and posterior portions.
What is the frontal (coronal) plane?
When blood pressure rises, receptors detect the change and the brain signals the heart to slow down. In this feedback loop, what is the effector?
What is the heart?
therm-
heat
The ventral cavity is divided into these two major cavities.
What are the thoracic and abdominopelvic cavities?
The area directly above the umbilical region is called this region.
What is the epigastric region?
This directional term means farther away from the point where a limb attaches to the body.
What is distal?
When body temperature rises, the hypothalamus detects the change and activates sweat glands to help cool the body. In this example, what is the effector?
What are the sweat glands?