Anatomical Position Terms
laying horizontal face up
what is supine?
building blocks of every living thing
what is a cell?
The abnormal shrinking of cells
What is atrophy?
The membrane the epidermis and dermis form together
What is cutaneous membrane?
group of organs that work together
what is an organ system?
closer to the surface of body
what is superficial?
Single units link to form polymers
What is monomers?
A gland that secretes mucin via exocytosis
What is Merocrine?
Vesicles that contribute to skin's pigmentation in keratinocytes
What are melanosomes?
system encloses internal body
what is the integumentary system?
divides body into anterior and posterior
what is frontal plane?
forms between a nucleic acid and nucleotide
what is a phosphodiester bond?
Epithelial tissue located in the small intestines and urinary tubes
What is simple columnar?
The phase of the hair growth cycle that takes the longest
What is anagen?
enables movement
abdominopelvic cavity is ________ to thoracic cavity
what is inferior?
protein synthesis site
what is Rough ER?
Uniform tissue located in the ligaments and tendons
What is dense regular connective tissue?
They are slowly adapting mechanoreceptors which respond to stretch and movement
What are Ruffini corpuscles?
activates bodily responses
what is the nervous system?
In regards to one side of the body, or on the same side
what is ipsilateral?
Cells don't divide in this part of the cell cycle
what is Gzero?
The second phase of the injury healing process
What is regeneration?
Replacement of a mature cell type by another mature cell type
What is metaplasia?
system includes the spleen
what is the lymphatic system?