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Body Systems
Medical History
100
The study of the function of the human body.
What is physiology?
100
This anatomical plane divides your body into equal left and right halves.
What is the midsagittal plane?
100
The term that refers to the smallest unit of life.
What is a cell.
100
The organs in the respiratory system that bring in air.
What are the lungs?
100
The vaccine developed by Edward Jenner
What is the small pox vaccine?
200
The study of the structures of the human body.
What is anatomy?
200
This anatomical plane divides the body into superior and inferior portions.
What is the Transverse Plane?
200
The medical term for the voice box.
What is the larynx?
200
The body system that is responsible for transporting oxygen and nutrients to all parts of the body.
What is the Circulatory System?
200
This person is known as the "Father of Medicine" in ancient Greece.
Who is Hippocrates?
300
This term means closer to the point of limb attachment to the body.
What is proximal?
300
This anatomical plane divides the body vertically into anterior and posterior portions.
What is the Frontal Plane?
300
The term for the study of tissues.
What is histology?
300
The system responsible for filtering waste and maintaining fluid balance in the body.
What is the Urinary System?
300
This scientist discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
400
This term means away from the midline
What is lateral?
400
This anatomical term refers to the front side of the body.
What is ventral?
400
The name of the largest bone in the body
What is the femur?
400
The system that sends electrical signals throughout the body.
What is the Nervous System?
400
This scientist discovered the first successful polio vaccine.
Who is Jonas Salk?
500
This position is called...
What is prone?
500
This division/part of the skeleton includes the skull, vertebral column, and rib cage.
What is the axial skeleton?
500
The largest organ in the body.
What is the skin?
500
The glands that are part of the endocrine system that regulate metabolism and energy levels.
What are the Thyroid Glands?
500
This revolutionary scientist discovered that germs cause disease.
Who is Louis Pasteur?