Anatomical Positions
Which quadrant is the stomach located?
What is Left Upper Quadrant?
These glands secrete substances into ducts to the epithelial surface
What are Exocrine Glands?
This gland excretes perspiration through pores and often referred to the sweat glands
What are Sudoriferous glands?
In the long bone, this makes up most of the bone’s length
What is Diaphysis or Shaft?
This type of muscle is involuntary and striated
What is Cardiac Muscle?
This directional term refers to away from the head end or towards lower part of the body or structure
What is Inferior?
Slick membranes that line the ventral body cavity and cover the organs in that cavity
What is Serous Membranes?
Bluish colored nails can indicate this condition
What is Hypoxia?
A bone-thinning disease that makes bones fragile
What is Osteoporosis?
This occurs when an organ protrudes through a weak area in the muscle
This body plane is cut leaving the right and left parts equal in size
What is Midsagittal?
What is Grandulation?
This epidermal layer describes the palms of hands and soles of feet
What is Stratum Lucidum?
The fibrous membranes connecting the cranial bones of an infant’s skull
What is Fontanels?
Also known as “soft spots”
Type of body movement that moves the most during contraction
What is Insertion?
Directional term refers to close to the origin of the body part or the point of attachment of a limb to the body trunk
The mitosis stage where the centromeres that have held the chromatids together split
These macrophage cells protect the skin from bacteria
What are Langerhaus Cells?
Giant bone-destroying cells in bones to break down bone matrix
What are Osteoclasts?
This movement type moves in the opposite direction
What is an Antagonist?
This continuous cavity protects the brain and spinal cord
What is the Dorsal Body Cavity?
This forms when cells divide and multiple uncontrollably causing an abnormal mass of proliferating cells
What is a Neoplasm? (Aka New Growth)
This disease develops at a pre-existing wart/mole and quickly metastasizes
What is Malignant Melanoma?
A chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease that affects the joints in a symmetrical manner at the same time
What is Rheumatoid Arthritis?
This special muscle activity is the muscle fibers ability to return to its original length
What is Elasticity?