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General Knowledge
Histology
Bones
Joints
Muscles
100
This is the cavity that contains the stomach.
What is the abdominal cavity?
100
This tissue is responsible for pumping blood.
What is cardiac muscle tissue?
100
This is the region of a long bone that articulates with other bones.
What is the epiphysis?
100
This is how the knee joint is functionally classified.
What is a synovial joint?
100
This is the attachment of a muscle's tendon to a movable bone.
What is the insertion?
200
This directional term is the opposite of deep.
What is superficial?
200
These are immature, undifferentiated cells that divide to replace lost or damaged cells.
What are stem cells?
200
These are the two minerals that are needed in large quantities when bones are growing.
What are calcium & phosphorus?
200
This is the region of they body where symphyses joints are found.
What is the midline of the body?
200
This is another name for the prime mover.
What is the agonist?
300
This directional term means "farher from the attachment of a limb to the trunk or farther from the origination of a structure."
What is distal?
300
This tissue forms the most superficial layer of the skin.
What is stratified squamous epithelium?
300
These are extensions of the lacunae that are filled with extracellular fluid.
What are canaliculi?
300
This is one structure used to reduce friction at joints.
What is bursae or synovial fluid?
300
This is the substance stored in the sarcoplasmic reticulum.
What calcium?
400
This cavity is inferior to the abdominal.
What is the pelvic cavity?
400
This type of tissue is small, spindle shaped cells found in the walls of hollow organs.
What is smooth muscle tissue?
400
This vitamin increases calcium absorption in the gastrointestinal tract.
What is vitamin D?
400
This is the type of movement where there is a decrease in the angle between articulating bones.
What is flexion?
400
These structures are found in cardiac muscle but not in skeletal muscle.
What are intercalated discs?
500
This is the plane that cuts the human body or an organ into superior and inferior halves.
What is transverse?
500
This is dense connective tissue's main funciton.
What is providing strong attachment between structures?
500
This is the component of bone matrix that is responsible for its resiliency.
What is collagen?
500
This is the type of movement that involves a continuous sequence of flexion, abduction, extension and adduction.
What is curcumduction?
500
This is the location of titin within the sarcomere.
What is the region extending from the Z disc to the M line?