Homeostasis
Body Planes
Body Parts and Regions
Body cavities
Body Systems
100
The existance and maintenance of a relatively constant environment within the body.
What is Homeostasis?
100
The plane that runs vertically through the body, separating it into left and right.
What is sagital plane?
100
The region of the mouth.
What is oral region?
100
The cavity that contains the abdominal cavity and the pelvic cavity.
What is abdominopelvic cavity?
100
The system that provides motor function, and provides heat for the body.
What is muscular system.
200
Positive and negative homeostatic mechanisms to maintain a constant internal value.
What is feedback mechanisms?
200
The plane that divides the body into left and right HALVES.
What is midsagital plane?
200
The nine regions of organs in the abdomin.
What is abdominal regions?
200
The organ that divides and separates the thoracic cavity and the abdominopelvic cavity.
What is the Diaphragm?
200
The system containing the lungs....
What is respiratory system?
300
A normal value that is maintained my homeostatic mechanisms.
What is a set point?
300
The plane that runs parralel to the ground and divides the body into superior and inferior parts.
What is transverse plane?
300
The section of the body containing the popliteal, sural, plantar and calcaneal areas.
What is lower limb?
300
The cavity that contains the lungs.
What is pleural cavity?
300
The system that generates hormones used to regulate and control body function.
What is Endocrine system?
400
Homeostatic mechanisms that resist or shrink any deviation from a set point.
What is negative feedback?
400
The plane that runs vetically through the body, separating it into anterior and posterior sections.
What is coronal plane?
400
The region of the body where the ear is located.
What is Otic region?
400
Organs that have parietal peritoneum stretched around their surface.
What are retroperitoneal organs?
400
The system that helps fight disease.
What is lymphatic system?
500
Non-Homeostatic responses that when a deviation from a set point occurs, the response if to make that deviation greater.
What is Positive feedback?
500
The plane cutting through the long axis of an organ at a 90 degree angle.
What is Longitudinal plane?
500
The chest region.
What is thorax?
500
The double walled membranes lining the interior and exteriors of body cavities.
What is serous membranes?
500
The hub of the nervous system.
What is the brain?
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