Feedback Mechanisms
Body Systems
Vocabulary
Anatomical Positions
Body Plans and Cavities
100
The names of the two different types of feedback mechanisms.
What is positive and negative feedback?
100
A group of organs working together
What is an organ system?
100
This is the general study of the body's structures
What is anatomy?
100
The face-down orientation
What is prone?
100
A two dimensional surface of a three dimensional structure that has been cut
What is a section?
200
The feedback where the condition worsens drastically before getting better
What is positive feedback?
200
This system is made up of hair, skin, and nails
What is the integumentary system?
200
The state of steady internal conditions maintained by living things
What is homeostasis?
200
2 anatomical words that mean toward the front of the body
What is anterior and ventral
200
An imaginary two dimensional surface that passes through the body
What is a plane?
300
The most common example of positive feedback that only women experience
What is childbirth?
300
This system is composed of the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves
What is the nervous system?
300
The process where larger more complex substances are broken down to smaller, simpler substances
What is catabolism?
300
two words that represent a position above or higher than another part of the body
What is superior?
300
The largest cavity in the body
What is the abdominopelvic cavity?
400
Feedback mechanisms help your body maintain what
What is homeostasis?
400
The epididymis, testes, mammory glands, ovaries, and uterus are all part of these two systems
What is the male and female reproductive systems?
400
When the body is standing upright with its feet at shoulder width apart and parallel with toes forward and arms to the side with palms facing forward
What is the anatomical position?
400
A position in a limb that's near to the point of attachment or trunk of the body
What is proximal?
400
The superior subdivision of the anterior cavity, enclosed by the rib cage
What is the thoracic cavity?
500
This mechanism prevents the condition from going beyond a normal range by reversing the action
What is negative feedback?
500
The study of structures that make up a discrete body system is called
What is systemic anatomy?
500
The ability of an organ to change due to changes in its internal and external environments
What is responsiveness?
500
A position that's both far from the surface from the body and far from the point of attachment or trunk of the body
What is deep distal?
500
The the region in the front view of the abdominopelvic cavity that's the uppermost to the left
What is the left hypochondriac region?
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