Body Directions
What is proximal?
Cell whose basic shape is square.
What is cubiodal cell?
Membrane lines all body cavities that open to the exterior, such as those of the respiratory, digestive, urinary and reproductive tracts.
What is the mucous membrane?
The most distal bones of the arm.
What are phalanges?
The type of muscle that is striated and sometimes multinucleate.
What is skeletal muscle?
Moving towards the midline.
What is medial?
Tissue that connects organs of the body together.
What is connective tissue?
Membrane that surrounds the heart.
What is pericardium?
This bone is distal from the knee, proximal from the ankle and lateral to the shin
What is the fibula?
This muscle connects the lower part of your spine up to your humerus. Responsible for pulling your upper arm backwards.
What is Latissimus Dorsi?
The palms face ________ in anatomical position.
What is forward?
Tissue that transports materials throughout the body.
What is blood?
Deepest dermal layer containing blood vessels, sweat and oil glands
The uppermost part of the sternum.
What is the manubrium?
The hamstring group is composed of the biceps femoris, the semitendinosus, and the _____________.
What is the semimembranosus?
The body plane that cuts a person in half through their abdomen.
What is transverse?
Protein Fibers that connect cells together.
What are desmosomes?
The number of layers of skin that are actually made up of living cells.
What is three?
The most posterior bone of the skull.
What is the occipital bone?
This muscle runs from its attachment point at your hip/pelvis across the front of your leg and connects to the inside of your knee.
What is sartorius?
Ventral is to dorsal as anterior is to ___________.
What is posterior?
Cell that change shapes between square and flat.
What are transitional cells?
A small sac of connective tissue that cushions movement of joints/tendons. Responsible for the pain associated with “tennis elbow”.
What is bursa?
The five largest vertebrae in the lower back.
What are lumbar vertebrae?
This muscle connects high on your anterior midline to low on your posterior midline (at an angle). Responsible for compressing your abdomen.
What is internal oblique?