Terms
Word root referring to the heart.
What is cardi/o?
The basic unit of life.
What is the cell?
The layer of skin that contains keratin and melanin.
What is the epidermis?
The structure that attaches a muscle to a bone.
What is a tendon?
Commonly referred to as the "collar bone"
What is the clavicle?
Word root referring to the skin.
What is dermat/o?
The tissue that creates bones, ligaments, and tendons.
What is connective tissue?
The tissue that lies deep to the dermis.
What is adipose tissue?
The muscle on the anterior upper arm.
What is the bicep?
Commonly referred to as the "shin bone"
What is the tibia?
Word root referring to bones.
What is oste/o?
The plane that divides the body into front and back sections.
What is the frontal plane?
The layer of skin that contains blood flow and hair follicles.
What is the dermis?
The muscle tissue that makes up the lining of organs.
What is smooth muscle?
The type of bone that makes up the carpals and tarsals
What are short bones?
The type of medication used to remove bacteria.
What is an antibiotic?
The direction away from the midline.
What is lateral?
The medical name for an oil gland.
What is a sebaceous gland?
The motion produced by a skeletal muscle.
What is an action?
A section of the skeleton made up of the skull, vertebrae, and ribs.
What is the axial skeleton?
Suffix referring to the surgical removal of something.
What is -ectomy?
What is anatomical position?
The condition that causes partial loss of melanin in patches on the skin.
What is vitiligo?
The type of nerve that innervates skeletal muscle tissue.
What is a motor neuron?
The bone in the forearm on the lateral side.
What is the radius?