Homeostasis & Anatomical Terms
The overall process the body uses to maintain internal balance
What is homeostasis?
This tissue type contracts to produce movement
What is muscle tissue?
The voltage difference across a cell membrane
What is membrane potential?
The dense bone tissue designed for strength and weight‑bearing
What is compact bone?
The tough outer meningeal layer
What is the dura mater?
This homeostatic component receives information from receptors and makes decisions
What is the control center?
An epithelium classified by having a single layer of cells
What is simple epithelium?
The membrane voltage that exists when the neuron is not firing
What is the resting membrane potential?
Bone cells responsible for breaking down bone matrix
What are osteoclasts?
The autonomic division responsible for “rest and digest”
What is the parasympathetic division?
This homeostatic component carries out the response directed by the control center
What is the effector?
Flat epithelial cells shaped like floor tiles
What is squamous epithelium?
The phase where Na⁺ channels open and the membrane becomes positive
What is depolarization?
The type of bone growth that increases length at the epiphyseal plate
What is interstitial growth?
The brain region responsible for balance and coordination
What is the cerebellum?
What is proximal?
The large amount of nonliving material found between connective tissue cells
What is the matrix?
The phase caused by K⁺ channels staying open too long
What is hyperpolarization?
Calcium release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum occurs during this process
What is excitation-contraction coupling?
The skin layer composed mainly of dense irregular connective tissue
What is the reticular layer?
A body plane that divides the body into anterior and posterior portions
What is the frontal (coronal) plane?
Adipose tissue, tendons, and ligaments belong to this category
What is connective tissue proper?
The refractory period where no stimulus can trigger another action potential
What is the absolute refractory period?
The step where myosin pulls actin toward the M line
What is the power stroke?
The gland type that secretes watery sweat for cooling
What are eccrine sweat glands?