CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
Oxygenated blood from the lungs arrives in the ______________.
left atrium
Blood clotting or coagulation is also known as _____.
hemostasis
Cholestasis is the stoppage of the flow of _________.
bile
In anatomy the lower edge of the rib is referred to as ___________
subcostal margin
A partition or dividing wall in a structure such as the heart, or nose is referred to as ___ in medicine.
septum
The blood vessel that supplies blood to the myocardium is the______________
coronary artery
Bone marrow_______ is when a doctor takes out a sample of the bone marrow for an examination.
aspiration
Narrowing of the distal muscle ring of the stomach is _______.
pylorostenosis
In surgery, incision into a bone is called_______________ .
osteotomy
A small roundish projection, a division of a soft organ such as a gland is referred to in medicine as
lobule
The celiac artery supplies the_______.
abdomen
Leucocytes differ from erythrocytes because they:
have nuclei and are motile
Stomatodynia is pain in the _________.
mouth
Plantar flexion means __________
bending the foot downward
In some parts of the body, the cells of the epithelial tissue are so short that their height equals their width. The epithelium is then called ________ epithelium.
cubical
The rhythmical dilatation of arteries produced when blood is pumped out of the heart is called ___________
pulse
The development and maturation of blood cells is called ______.
hematopoiesis
The inner mucosal layer of the stomach is arranged in temporary folds called ______.
rugae
What does the term ’ischiopubic articulation ’ refer to?
the connection between the ischium and pelvis
Waste byproducts must be transported out of the cell before they pile up or_____ to form toxic concentrations
accumulate
The upper chambers of the heart are the left and right _________.
atria
What does the word erythrocytosis mean when broken down into word parts?
red/cell/increased number of
The lid-like structure that covers the larynx during the swallowing of food is called:
epiglottis
When bones are arranged in a circle, this shape is termed in anatomy as _________ .
girdle
Which type of tissue covers body surfaces and lines internal organs?
Epithelial tissue