Terms
Anatomic terminology is primarily based on these two languages
What are Greek and Latin?
Functional unit of compact bone
What is an osteon?
Muscle responsible for goose bumps
What is arrector pili muscle?
The hand is this to the shoulder
What is distal?
The body plane that separates body into left and right
What is sagittal plane?
Maintenance of a relatively stable internal environment
What is homeostasis?
Fat cells are called
What is adipose tissue?
Cells that give the skin its color by secreting pigment
What are melanocytes?
The heart is this to the ribs
What is deep?
Main cavity of the body that contains the brain and spinal cord
What is the Dorsal cavity?
All chemical and physical reactions in the body
What is metabolism?
single layer of flat cells found lining blood vessels and common in alveoli of the lungs
What is simple squamous epithelium?
pain receptors
What are nociceptors?
What is medial?
Organization of similar cells that carry out a certain function
What is a tissue?
Smallest, fundamental unit of life
What is the cell?
Cells that secrete matrix and are not full differentiated
What are fibroblasts?
The CT layer at the point of attachment for epidermis
What is basal lamina or basement membrane?
The bone is immediately superior to C1 vertebra
What is occipital?
The membrane that lines internal organs
What is the visceral membrane?
The cavity that separates the lungs
What is the mediastinum?
Mature cells of cartilage lie in these encapsulated spaces with a proteoglycan matrix
What are lacunae?
Fingerlike projections into the epidermis that are important in creating mechanical strength in skin
What are dermal papillae?
The bulbourethral gland is this to the prostate
What is inferior?
In medical imaging, PET scan stands for
What is positron emission tomography?