The Language of Anatomy and Tissues
This anatomical term refers to a location toward the midline or axis of the body.
What is Medial?
This body system is responsible for the regulation of body processes through hormone production.
What is the Endocrine System?
These tiny air sacs in the lungs are the actual site of gas exchange between the air and the blood.
What are Alveoli?
What is an example of a flat bone?
What are bones in the skull (occipital, frontal, parietal) OR the sternum
This specific type of white blood cell "eats" pathogens and then displays pieces of the pathogen (antigens) on its surface to alert other immune cells.
What is a macrophage/phagocyte
This type of tissue is found in the brain, spinal cord, and nerves, and is responsible for communicating signals.
What is Nervous Tissue?
This part of the brain is often associated with muscle coordination and balance.
What is the Cerebellum?
This muscular wall separates the left and right ventricles of the heart, preventing the mixing of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood.
What is the septum?
Which joint type is the most common in the human body and contains fluid to reduce friction during movement?
What is a synovial joint
Produced by B-cells, these Y-shaped proteins bind to specific antigens to "neutralize" them or mark them for destruction by other immune cells.
What are antibodies
This anatomical plane divides the body into superior and inferior (top and bottom) portions.
What is the Transverse Plane?
At rest, the membrane potential inside of a neuron is
What is negative
Which specific heart valve prevents the backflow of blood from the Left Ventricle into the Left Atrium?
What is the mitral valve (or bicuspid valve)
This specific part of a long bone contains red bone marrow
What is the diaphysis
This is the functional unit of the kidney, responsible for filtering blood and forming urine.
What is the Nephron?
Identify the regional terms for the following locations in order: The armpit, the back of the elbow, and the fingers.
What are Axillary, Olecranal, Digital
If a patient had a tumor in the OCCIPITAL LOBE, which of the 5 sense would be most significantly impacted?
What is Vision
This is the term for the volume of air breathed in and out without conscious effort (normal, resting breathing).
What is tidal volume
In the Sliding Filament Theory of muscle contraction, this ion must be released from the sarcoplasmic reticulum to allow cross-bridges to form.
What is calcium
This macromolecule is made of amino acids and polypeptide chains. It has a variety of functions like building internal structures, providing defense, and coordinating cellular activity
What are proteins
Please list three examples of connective tissue
What are blood, fat (adipose), bone, and cartilage
In a patient with Type 1 Diabetes, the endocrine system fails because specific cells in the pancreas are destroyed by the immune system, preventing the production of a hormone needed to let glucose into the body's cells. What is that hormone?
What is insulin
A patient has a Heart Rate of 70 bpm and a Stroke Volume of 70 mL. What is their Cardiac Output? (Include units!)
What is 4,900 mL/min (or 4.9 L/min)?
A single muscle cell is also known as a muscle fiber. These fibers are bundled together into groups called __________, which are surrounded by a connective tissue layer called the _______.
What is fasicles/perimysium
What is the difference between mechanical and chemical digestion? BE SPECFIC
mechanical is the physical breakdown of food using teeth and muscle movement
chemical breakdown requires enzymes