The Body
Body Regulation
Directions in the Body
Body Cavities
The Metric System
100
The study of body structure.
What is anatomy.
100
All the chemical reactions needed to sustain life.
What is metabolism.
100
These 2 terms refer to above or higher, and below or lower.
What are superior and inferior.
100
This body cavity contains the cranial and spinal cavities for the brain and spinal cord.
What is the dorsal cavity?
100
The basic unit of length.
What is the meter?
200
The study of how the body functions.
What is physiology.
200
The breakdown of complex substances into simpler substances.
What is catabolism.
200
These 2 terms refer to nearer the point of origin and farther from the point of origin.
What are proximal and distal.
200
This cavity contains the thoracic and abdominopelvic cavity.
What is the ventral cavity.
200
The basic unit of weight.
What is the gram?
300
These 2 body systems help with support and movement.
What are the skeletal and muscular systems.
300
The building up of simple compounds into more complex substances.
What is anabolism.
300
These 2 terms refer to toward the midline and toward the side.
What are medial and lateral.
300
This cavity contains the heart and lungs.
What is the thoracic cavity?
300
The basic unit of volume.
What is the liter?
400
What body system produces hormones for the regulation of growth, metabolism, and reproduction.
What is the endocrine system.
400
Normal body function maintains a state of internal balance known as
What is homeostasis.
400
You get this body division when you divide the body into left and right parts.
What is sagittal.
400
The space between the lungs and the organs contained in that space.
What is the mediastinum?
400
The prefix kilo.
What is 1000 times?
500
Levels of organization of the body.
What is chemicals, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, body as a whole
500
This feedback system keeps body conditions within a set normal range by reversing any upward or downward shift, such as a thermostat in a house.
What is negative feedback system.
500
You get this body division when you divide the body into superior and inferior parts.
What is transverse.
500
The nine regions of the abdomen.
What are epigastric, umbilical, hypogastric, and the right and left hypochondriac, lumbar, and iliac.
500
The prefix centi.
What is 1/100th (0.01)
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