Sensory organs
What are the two types of photoreceptors that sense light?
This term means ‘toward the feet’ or ‘below another structure’.
What is inferior?
The two parts of the skeletal system.
What are the Axial and Appendicular skeletons?
What is the medical term for a white blood cell?
What is leukocyte?
How many WBCS are there
5
What is emmetropia?
When the eye focuses images correctly on the retina.
What is the sagittal or medial plane of the body?
The plane that divides the body into the left and right sides.
What is the cartilage type that is very flexible and is found in the ear and epiglottis?
Elastic cartilage
Which blood cells have a nucleus and which blood cells do not?
White blood cells have a nucleus, and red blood cells and platelets do not.
Which antigen is reponsible for the + or - indicator in blood types?
What is Rh antigen?
What does the cochlear duct do?
What is senses sound?
What are the 3 characteristics of a body in anatomical positioning?
The body is upright, feet are slightly apart and toes are pointed forward, and arms hang at sides with palms facing forward.
What is the bone forming process that creates most flat bones during development?
What is Intramembranous ossification?
What are the four main components of blood?
Plasma, erythrocytes, leukocytes, and platelets
Which cell is most affected by sickle cell disease? Use the scientific name.
Erythrocytes (red blood cells)
What are the malleus, incus, and stapes?
What does caudal mean?
Located toward the tail or feet.
What connective tissue covers the ends of long bones and reduces friction at joint surfaces?
Articular cartilage
Where are red blood cells formed, and what is this process called?
Red blood cells are formed in red bone marrow and this is called erythropoiesis.
What is a hollow ball of 100-200 cells/a 5-6 day old embryo called?
A blastocyst
What is the difference between the lacrimal caruncle and the lacrimal apparatus?
The lacrimal caruncle is the fleshy elevation at the medial commissure, and the lacrimal apparatus produces and drains tears to lubricate the eye.
Where is the epigastric region in the abdominopelvic cavity located in comparison to the umbilical region (use superior/inferior or medial/lateral)?
What is superior?
What bone formation process begins with a hyaline cartilage model and later replaces that model with bone in most of the body’s bones?
Endochondral ossification
What is polycythemia (abnormal increase in erythrocytes) caused by?
It can be caused by bone marrow cancer and living at high altitudes.
Which WBC releases histomine?
What is blastocyte?