Topics of Anatomy
The study of large body parts visible to the eye.
What is Gross Anatomy?
Groups of cells
What is a tissue?
Kidney, ureter, urinary bladder, and urethra
What is urinary or excretory system?
Breaking down ingested foodstuffs to simple molecules that can be absorbed into the blood
What is digestive?
Factor or event being regulated
What is variable?
type of anatomy traces structural changes that occur in the body throughout the life span.
What is developmental anatomy?
Organs Working together
What is an organ system?
Heart, blood vessels
What is cardiovascular?
Increase in size of the body part or the organism
What is growth?
Provides the means for the control center’s response to the stimulus
What is effector?
Type of anatomy is a subdivision of developmental anatomy that deals with changes that occur before birth.
What is embryology?
Simplest level of structural hierarchy
What is chemical?
Nasal cavity, pharynx, larynx, lungs, trachea, bronchus
What is respiratory?
Ability to sense changes
What is responsiveness or irritability?
Controls the set point at which a variable is maintained
What is control center?
type of anatomy concerns structures to small to see with the naked eye.
What is microscopic anatomy?
Discrete structure with at least two different tissue types
What is an organ?
Brain, sensory receptors, nerves, spinal cord
What is nervous?
Removing waste from the body
What is excretion?
Most homeostatic control mechanisms in the human body are this type
What is feedback negative?
All structures in one particular region of the body are examined in this type of anatomy.
What is regional Anatomy
Smallest unit of all living things
What is a cell?
Thyroid gland, pituitary gland, pineal gland, thymus, adrenal gland, pancreas, ovary, testis.
What is endocrine?
Includes all the chemical reactions that occur within the body
What is metabolism?
The bodies ability to maintain relatively stable internal conditions.
What is homeostasis?