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Used to describe direction, regions, and areas of the body
What is Anatomical terminology?
Farthest from the center
What is distal?
Is comprised of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems
What is the Body?
Vegetative, Growth, Reproduction, and Specialized Activities
What are the four categories of cellular activity?
This Latin root means “muscle”
What is myo?
This position shows a person from the front standing upright, with the palms of the hands facing forward
What is an anatomical position?
Pertaining to the middle
What is medial?
The basic functioning unit of the body that contains organelles, each of which has unique functions.
What are cells?
Building larger molecules from smaller ones
What is Anabolism?
The Latin root algia
What is pain?
Covers bone and cartilagen
What is the skeletal membrane?
Dividing front & back
What is coronal plane?
The integumentary (skin), skeletal, muscular, nervous, endocrine, circulatory (blood and lymph-vascular), digestive, urinary, respiratory, and reproductive systems
What are the 10 most important systems of the body?
Breaking larger molecules into smaller ones
What is Catabolism?
This suffix, meaning inflammation
What is -itis?
The three imaginary planes are called the sagittal (vertical), the coronal (frontal), and the transverse (horizontal) planes
What are three anatomical planes of the body?
They are secreted in the body to catalyze different responses in the body
What are Enzymes?
The goals of Anabolism and catabolism carried out simultaneously and continuously
The Latin term edema refers to this common symptom that massage therapists may observe in clients.
What is swelling?
The head, the trunk, the upper extremities, and the lower extremities.
What are the four main anatomical parts of the body?
Dividing the left & right
What is sagittal plane?
Five main categories of tissues
What are epithelial, muscle, nerve, and connective tissues?
What is Epithelial tissue?
The word fascia comes from Latin, meaning this
What is a band or bundle?