Key Directional Terms
The head is _____ to the belly button.
What is SUPERIOR
The cavity that contains the brain.
What is the CRANIAL cavity?
Includes the skin, hair and nails.
What is the INTEGUMENTARY system?
Adipocyte
What is a fat cell?
When the concentration on either side of the membrane is equal.
What is EQUILIBRIUM?
The spine is __________ to the bellybutton.
What is POSTERIOR/DORSAL.
The plane that could divide the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity.
What is the TRANSVERSE plane?
The system that breaks down and absorbs food and nutrients.
What is the DIGESTIVE system?
Bicephaly
What is TWO HEADS?
The type of cell division that results in identical daughter says with the same amount of DNA.
What is MITOSIS?
The muscles are _______ to the skin.
The cavity posterior to the ventral cavity.
What is the VERTEBRAL/SPINAL cavity?
Fights infection and provides fluid for cells.
What is the LYMPHATIC system?
Hepatitis
What is the SWELLING of the LIVER?
The diffusion of water through a membrane.
What is OSMOSIS?
The ears are _____ to the nose.
What is LATERAL?
The plane that could separate the ventral cavity from the spinal cavity.
What is the FRONTAL plane?
Secretes Hormones.
What is the ENDOCRINE SYSTEM?
Podophile
What is SOMEONE who LOVES FEET?
A solution that has more solute than a cell.
What is HYPERTONIC?
The toes are ______ to the ankle.
What is DISTAL?
The double layered lining of the ventral cavity.
What is the SEROSA?
The building of larger molecules from small ones (anabolism) and breaking down of larger molecules into smaller ones (catabolism).
What is METABOLISM?
Glossitis
What is SWELLING OF THE TONGUE?
The type of solution that is ideal for cell growth.
What is ISOTONIC?