Body Positions
The general position where your palms are facing forward and feet are straight.
Anatomical Position
An organelle found in large numbers in most cells, in which the biochemical processes of respiration and energy production occur.
Mitochondria
The largest organ of the body that forms a physical barrier between the external environment and the internal environment that it serves to protect and maintain.
Integumentary System
This disease is the result of a buildup of certain fatty substances in certain organs, particularly your spleen and liver.
Gaucher disease
This tissue involves air sacs in the lungs lining up, one flat surface.
Simple Squamous
The Back portion of the body
Dorsal Position
A minute particle consisting of RNA and associated proteins found in large numbers in the cytoplasm of living cells.
Ribosomes
This system permits movement of the body, maintains posture, and circulates blood throughout the body.
Muscular System
This disease is when the body cannot process certain amino acids, causing a harmful build-up of substances in the blood and urine.
Maple syrup urine disease
This tissue is attached to the basement membrane and is more taller than wide.
Simple Columnar
This position refers to the side of the body
Lateral Position
Golgi Apparatus
This system involves the breakdown of food into smaller and smaller components.
Digestive System
This disease results in extensive degeneration of the myelin sheaths surrounding nerves in the brain.
Krabbe disease
this tissue is easily identified when there is cilia present above the tissue with a hairy texture.
Pseudostratified Columnar
Refers to being close to the midline of body
Medial Position
A membrane-bound cell organelle that contains digestive enzymes.
Lysosome
The function of this sytem is to eliminate waste from the body, regulate blood volume and blood pressure, control levels of electrolytes and metabolites.
Urinary System
A inherited disorder in which the body does not properly digest sugar molecules in the body.
Hunter syndrome
This tissue is very stretchable and is found in the urinary bladder.
Transitional Epithelium
This position is near the center (trunk of the body) or the point of attachment to the body.
Proximal Position
A space or vesicle within the cytoplasm of a cell, enclosed by a membrane and typically containing fluid.
Vacuole
This is the biological system made up of all the anatomical organs involved in sexual reproduction.
Reproductive System
A diagnosis which refers to individuals with very significantly elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol or bad cholesterol.
Familial hypercholesterolemia.
This tissue is found in the ducts of the glands and involves absorption and secretion.
Glandular Epithelium