Cells, Homeostasis, and Tissues
The cellular equivalent to the human stomach.
What is lysosome?
The eye has three layers; this middle layer is rich in blood vessels.
What is the choroid layer/vascular tunic?
The four lobes of the brain.
What are the temporal, occipital, frontal, and parietal lobes?
The movement of the muscles (and bones) away from the body midline.
What is abduction?
What is the humerus?
The body terminology classification for your back.
What is dorsal?
The name for the spiral-shaped structure in the ear.
What is the cochlea?
The 3 classes of neuron.
What is unipolar, bipolar, and multipolar?
Type of muscle movement that brings bones closer together.
What is flexion?
The bones of the cranium correspond to these regions of the brain.
What are the cerebral lobes?
Contractions during birth are a good example of this form of feedback.
What is positive feedback?
The center in the brain that processes scents.
What is the olfactory cortex?
Fight-or-flight is a common way to refer to this branch of the nervous system.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
The resulting muscle contraction(s) caused by rapid stimulation.
What is fused/complete tetanus?
These types of cells assist in bone deposition and growth.
What are osteoblasts?
Blood is this type of tissue.
What is connective tissue?
The 4 sensations that the human tongue can taste.
What is umami, sweet, sour and bitter?
Nerve matter composed mainly of myelinated axons.
What is white matter?
The two types of myofilaments in a sarcomere.
What are actin and myosin?
When a baby is born, their bones are mostly composed of this flexible material.
What is cartilage?
The term used to describe the attractions and repulsions in phospholipids.
What is amphiphilic?
Cataracts are caused by damage to this visual organ.
What is the lens?
Action potentials are usually indicated by a wave of this type of polar interaction.
What is depolarization?
During muscle contraction, actin and myosin move closer towards this segment of the sarcomere.
What is the M line?
The bruise that forms when a bone is broken.
What is a hematoma?