Body Systems
This system includes the heart and blood vessels and is responsible for transporting nutrients and oxygen
What is the circulatory (or cardiovascular) system?
This term means "toward the head."
What is superior
This type of tissue line body surface and cavities
What is the epithelial tissue
What is the largest bone in the human body
What is the femur
This type of muscle is under voluntary control
What is skeletal muscle
The skin, hair, and nails are part of this system.
What is the integumentary system?
This plane divides the body into right and left parts
what is the sagittal plane
This type of connective tissue stores fat
What is adipose tissue?
This part of the skeleton includes the skull, spine and rib cage
What is the axial skeleton
This large muscle helps you breathe by contracting and relaxing
What is the diaphragm
This system filters waste from the blood and helps regulate blood pressure.
What is the urinary system
The thumb is ____ to the pinky finger
What is lateral
Neurons are found in this tissue type.
What is nervous tissue
What are carpals?
This muscle is known as "the calf muscle"
What is the gastrocnemius
This system controls body functions through hormones.
What is the endocrine system
The nose is ____ to the ears?
What is medial
This connective tissues has liquid extracellular matrix and transports substances throughout the body
What is blood
Bone cells that build new bone matrix are called this.
What are osteoblasts?
This term describes the ability of muscle tissue to return to its original shape after being stretched
What is elasticity
This system returns leaked fluids to blood vessels and helps fight off pathogens.
What is the immune system?
The term "distal" refers to a point ____ from the trunk of the body
What is farther
What are four types of epithelial tissue
Simple squamous, stratified squamous, simple cuboidal, stratified cuboidal, transitional, simple columnar, pseudostratified columnar
This canal contains blood vessels and nerves within the compact bone.
What is the Haversian canal?
This is the basic functional unit of a muscle fiber
What is a sarcomere