Terms
The interpretation of data collected from an examination and testing.
What is a diagnosis?
If a patient is in a prone position, the patient is lying on their ______.
Anterior side.
The anterior cubital region refers to which part of the body?
Front of the elbow
Head, neck, and trunk
What is Axial region?
The ribs are in the axial region
The dorsal cavity contains the brain which is in the _____ Cavity, and ______ are the lining membranes.
What is the cranial cavity, and Meninges?
The body's normal immune response to injury and disease.
What is inflammation?
Trauma can be defined as a wound or shock produced by a(n) _____.
Injury
Used to describe the location of the ankle in relation to the knee.
What is Distal?
The ankle is distal to the knee.
Arms and legs are in the ______ region.
Appendicular region.
The elbow is in the appendicular region.
The thoracic cavity contains the lungs which are in the ______ cavity, and ______ are the lining membranes.
Pleural cavities and Plurae are the lining membranes.
The study of the effect of disease on the population.
What is epidemiology?
The body's maintenance of a stable internal environment is called _______.
A patient lying on their ventral or anterior surface, face down would be in what position?
What is the prone position?
The phlebotomist drew blood from the anterior cubital region.
What is the cubital region?
Elbow.
The _____ cavity contains the heart. The heart lining membrane is the _______.
Pericardial cavity
Pericardium
The maintenance of balance or equilibrium within the body.
What is homeostasis
Anatomy is defined as the study of ______.
Body structures.
The body is upright, legs are close together, feet are flat on the floor, arms are close to the side, and the head, toes, and palms of the hands are facing forward. This is known as the ______ position.
Standard anatomical position.
The four quadrants of the abdomen are ____, _____, ____, _____
RUQ, LUQ, LLQ, RLQ
The liver is in the right upper quadrant
The cavity that contains the digestive organs and spleen.
The abdominal cavity.
The term that describes the study of disease.
What is pathology?
Disease is defined as _______.
Abnormally functioning organs or organ systems result in a disruption in homeostasis.
Refers to the front or belly side of the body.
What is Anterior or ventral?
The trachea is anterior to the esophagus.
The maxilla is a ______ bone.
The spinal cord is in the ______ cavity and the lining membranes are the ______.
Vertebral Cavity
meninges