Intro
What is considered the most basic unit of life?
What is the cell?
This thin layer of skin is made of stratified squamous epithelial tissue and is avascular.
What is another name for the throat?
This is the thigh bone
What is the femur?
Our hearts are made of this muscle type
What is cardiac?
What part of the cell makes ATP?
What is the mitochondria?
What layer insulates the body from extreme temperature changes and anchors the skin to underlying structures?
What is another name for the windpipe?
This is the upper arm bone
What is the humerus?
Our viscera are made of this muscle type
What is smooth muscle?
What plane divides the body into anterior and posterior sides?
What is the layer directly below the epidermis?
What is the dermis?
This flap closes when we swallow to prevent food and liquid from entering our trachea?
Our abdominal muscles and diaphragm are this muscle type
What is the thoracic cavity?
Skin color is due largely to ____.
What is melanin?
What are the small grapelike structures in the lungs where gas exchange occurs?
What are alveoli?
This term is given to the shaft of long bones
What is the diaphysis?
Muscle growth from overuse
What is hypertrophy?
What body cavity is divided into 4 quadrants?
What is the abdominopelvic cavity?
What is added to skin cells that makes them hardened, flattened and water resistant?
What is keratin?
By what process does gas exchange occur?
What is diffusion?
Our carpals are this shape of bones
What are short bones?
This is the only movement that muscle fibers can make
What is shorten?
What is considered a neutral pH on the pH scale?
What is 7 or water?
A condition of hair loss...
What is alopecia?
What is apnea?
This term means the production of blood cells in our bones?
What is hematopoiesis?
This cordlike fascia attaches muscle to bone
What is tendon?
The ankle is located _________ to knee?
If someone is emotionally upset or very cold, nerve impulses may stimulate the arrector pili muscles to contract, causing gooseflesh, or goose bumps.
What is an arrector pili muscle?
What are the receptors for our sense of smell called?
What are olfactory?
This is our cheek bone
What is the Zygomatic?
posterior thigh muscle that allows flexion of the leg
What are the hamstrings?
What plane divides the body into right and left sides?
Ceruminous glands secrete cerumin, also known as what?
ear wax
After air passes through the trachea, where does it go to next?
What could result from breaking your long bone at the epiphyseal disc?
What is cessation of longitudinal growth in that bone?
Movement of the body part away from the midline of the body
What is abduction?