Vocabulary
Body Systems
Life Functions
Planes & Directions
Cavities & Regions
100
The study of the structure and shape of body parts and their relationships to one another
What is Anatomy
100
The functions of this system include waterproofing and maintaining body temperature, among other things.
What is the Integumentary System?
100
This necessary component for survival is the most abundant chemical substance in the body.
What is Water?
100
This term is synonymous with anterior for people and monkeys, but not for your dog or cat.
What is Ventral?
100
This cavity contains the "processor" of the central nervous system.
What is the Cranial Cavity?
200
Type of observation utilized in cadaver dissection.
What is Gross Anatomy?
200
This framework is also a storehouse for minerals and precursors of blood cells.
What is the Skeletal System?
200
If this is too high, the body begins to metabolize its proteins.
What is Body Temperature?
200
If the body is split into superior and inferior sections, the cut is along which plane?
What is the Transverse Plane?
200
The mediastinum is a sub-division of this cavity.
What is the Thoracic Cavity?
300
The study of how the body and its parts function.
What is Physiology?
300
This system generates a large amount of the body's heat when it acts in its main functional role.
What is the Muscular System?
300
This necessary life function makes us aware of our surroundings.
What is Responsiveness?
300
If the body is split into anterior and posterior sections, the cut is in which plane?
What is the Coronal Plane?
300
This large ventral cavity is the only cavity that is sub-divided by an imaginary line instead of a physical structure.
What is the Abdominopelvic Cavity?
400
Simplest level of structural organization for living things.
What is Cellular Level?
400
This fast-acting control system is often compared to a computer or to a large city's communication system.
What is the Nervous System?
400
The skin plays a major role in this necessary life function.
What is Maintain Boundaries?
400
This term describes the relationship of the big toe to the other toes.
What is Medial?
400
The pancreas is found in this region of the abdomen.
What is Epigastric?
500
The biliary system is an example of what level of structural organization?
What is Organ System Level?
500
This quiet system doesn't take up much space but can result in dramatic physical changes in the body.
What is the Endocrine System?
500
Without this necessary life function, we are all one generation away from extinction.
What is Reproduction?
500
This term describes the relationship of the thumb to the other fingers.
What is Lateral?
500
Your prostate gland, if you have one, is found in this region.
What is the Hypogastric Region?