The Basics
The structure of the body and the relationship of its parts to each other.
What is anatomy?
The patient is lying face up and on their back.
What is supine?
What gives the body its shape, protects vital organs, allows movement, and stores minerals.
What is the skeletal system?
Movement of the body is due to work performed by?
What are muscles?
The process of moving oxygen and carbon dioxide across membranes, in and out of the alveoli, capillaries, and cells.
What is respiration?
The function of the living body and its parts.
What is Physiology?
The patient is lying face down on his stomach.
What is prone?
There are 206 of these in the body.
What are bones?
Name the types of muscle (3)
What is skeletal, smooth, & cardiac?
A form of respiration in which oxygen molecules move across a membrane from an area of high oxygen concentration to an area of low oxygen concentration.
What is oxygenation?
Anterior is toward the?
Posterior is toward the?
What is front and back?
The patient is lying on his left or right side.
What is (left or right) lateral recumbent? (recovery)
Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar, Sacral make up what?
What is the spine?
Smooth muscle that is not smooth muscle and stringlike muscle that is not skeletal muscle.
What is cardiac muscle?
Mechanical process by which air is moved in and out of the lungs.
What is ventilation?
Proximal means ____ the point of reference?
Distal is _____, far from the point of reference?
What is near and far?
The patient is lying on his back with the upper body elevated at an angle less than 45 degrees.
What is semi-fowlers position?
Also known as the limbs of the body.
What are extremities?
Muscle that can be contracted and relaxed by will of the individual because it is under control of the brain.
What is skeletal muscle?
Passageway for air from its entry into the body to the lungs.
What is the airway?
The patient is standing erect, facing forward, with armsdown at the sides and palms facing forward.
What is the anatomical position?
The patient is bent forward and holding themselves up on their knees (or legs)
What is tripod position?
The place where one bone connects to another.
What are joints?
Muscle found in the walls of tubelike organs, ducts, and the respiratory tract.
What is smooth muscle?
Under _, ventilate!!!
What is eight?