Study of the Human Body and Body Systems
Metabolism
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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
In this position, the body is upright, palms forward, face front, feet parallel.
What is anatomical position?
100
This cavity contains the cranial and spinal cavities.
What is the dorsal cavity?
100
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
This means above or higher.
What is superior?
200
This cavity contains the thoracic and abdominopelvic cavities.
What is the ventral cavity?
200
Basic unit of weight.
What is the gram?
300
The body system that deals with the intake of oxygen and release of carbon dioxide.
What is the respiratory system?
300
The building phase of metabolism.
What is anabolism?
300
This means toward the midline.
What is medial?
300
The space between the lungs.
What is the mediastinum?
300
Basic unit of volume.
What is the liter?
400
The body system that deals with the intake, breakdown, and absorption of nutrients.
What is the digestive system?
400
Normal body function maintains a state of internal balance known as this.
What is homeostasis?
400
Nearer to the point of origin.
What is proximal?
400
Of the nine abdominal regions, these are the 3 center from top to bottom.
What is the epigastric, umbilical, hypogastric?
400
Kilo
What is 1,000 times?
500
The level of organization of the body.
What are chemicals, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism?
500
This type of feedback sysem keeps the body conditions within a set normal range by reversing any upward or downward shift.
What is negative feedback?
500
In this body division, the body is divided into left and right parts.
What is sagittal?
500
Of the nine regions of the abdomen, these are the lateral regions.
What are the hypochondriac, lumbar, iliac?
500
Centi
What is 1/100th?
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