A & P/Directional Terms
The nasal region is _____ to the mental region.
What is superior?
Cell structure most notable for selective permeability and is composed of a phospholipid bilayer.
What is the plasma membrane?
Epithelial tissues that are scale-like and flattened.
What is squamous?
The sternum is this type of bone.
What is flat bone?
Moving a limb away from the midline of the body along a frontal plane.
What is abduction?
The plane that runs longitudinally and divides the body into right and left sides
What is the sagittal plane?
Cell cycle period where cell carries out normal metabolic activities and grows.
What is interphase?
Cells that produce a brown-to-black pigment that colors the skin and protects DNA from ultraviolet radiation damage.
What are melanocytes?
The shaft of a long bone.
What is diaphysis?
Synovial joint type found in the shoulders and hip joint.
What is a ball-and-socket joint?
Large cavity containing the brain and spinal cord
What is the Dorsal cavity?
The TOTAL magnification if my objective lens is at low-power (10x)
What is 100x? [Note: TM= 10x(ocular lens) x 10x (low-power objective lens) = 100 x]
In addition to the typical 4 epidermal layers, thick skin includes this 5th layer not found in thin skin.
What is stratum lucidum?
The structural unit of compact bone.
What is osteon?
A movement that turns the sole of the foot laterally.
What is eversion?
Abdominopelvic region immediately superior to the umbilical region and overlines most of the stomach
What is epigastric region?
Mitotic phase in which a new nuclear envelope forms around each chromatin mass, nucleoli reappear, and spindle breaks down and disappears.
What is telophase?
Small bands of smooth muscle that pull hair follicles upright when contracted, causing goosebumps.
What is arrector pili muscle?
A thin area of hyaline cartilage that provides for longitudinal growth of the bone during youth.
What is growth plate?
Movement of the palm from a posterior position to an anterior position; the radius and ulna are parallel.
What is supination?
Region referring to the back of the elbow
What is olecranal?
What is the golgi apparatus?
The type of cartilage that has the greatest strength and is found in the knee joint and intervertebral discs
What is fibrocartilage?
Central cavity of the bone that stores yellow bone marrow.
What is medullary cavity?
The formal name for the hip socket.
What is acetabulum?