Terminology
Which term has the opposite meaning as lateral?
medial
What type of tissue functions in movement?
muscular
What percent of the body weight does skin account for?
15%
What type of tissue is bone?
connective tissue
What is the smallest unit of contraction within a muscle?
sarcomere
Where is the axillary region?
armpit
The cell membrane allows some things to enter but prohibits other, therefore it is said to be ____
semipermeable; selectively permeable
superficial
What do we call a fracture that breaks all the way through the bone and breaks the skin?
complete, open fracture
Muscle's ability to respond to stimuli is called:
excitability
Which type of plane divides the body into anterior and posterior portions? frontal, midsaggital, transverse
frontal
When naming epithelial tissue, what does the first name indicate
How many cell layers thick the tissue is
What are the most abundant cells in the epidermis?
keratinocytes
What are the cushions between vertebrae called? What are they made of?
intervertebral disks; cartilage
moving a limb away from the midline of the body is called
abduction
The quadriceps are ___ to the gastrocnemius
proximal, superior
What type of transport across the cell membrane uses a protein? passive transport, facilitated diffusion, active transport (1 or more may apply)
facilitated and active!
Within the dermis, which structure senses heavy touch such as pressure and vibrations?
Pacinian Corpuscles
How many bones are in your spinal column?
26- 7 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, sacrum, coccyx
Which type(s) of muscle tissue are involuntary
Where is the cephalic region?
head
What makes substances move across a cell membrane when energy is not present?
a difference in concentration/concentration gradient
apocrine; sudoriferous gland
The bone cells that "produce bone"
osteoblasts
What is the cell membrane of a muscle cell called
sarcolemma