Body Systems
Heart, blood and blood vessels
What is the circulatory system?
Brain
What is the cranial cavity?
The muscle that seperates the thoracic and abdominal cavities.
What is the diaphragm?
There are 7 vertebrae
What is the cervical spine?
The term meaning "pertaining to the waist."
What is lumbar?
Breaksdown food
What is the digestive system?
Surrounded by the ribs
What is the thoracic cavity?
The accumulation of fluid in the peritoneum.
What is ascites?
There are 5 fused bones
What is the sacrum?
A single back bone
What is a vertebra?
Composed of glands that secrete hormones.
What is the endocrine system?
Pancreas
What is the abdominal cavity?
Spinal tap.
What is a lumbar puncture?
A piece of flexible connective tissue
What is a disk?
The Greeks thought the liver and spleen caused this type of "illness." A person that suffers it is called a _______.
What is hypochondriac?
Trachea, bronchioles, and lobes.
What is the respiratory system?
Subcavity that is within the lung lining
What is the pleural cavity?
The suffix -ior
What means "pertaining to?"
Tailbone
What is the coccyx?
The 2 body parts the word cervical could refer to.
What are the neck of the body and the neck of the uterus?
Sudoriferous glands, arrector pili muscles and sebaceous glands.
What is the integumentary system?
The subcavity within the thoracic cavity that houses the heart.
What is the mediastinum?
A horizontal plane
What is a transverse plane?
Most common area for herniation
What is the lumbar spine?
A vertical plane that divides the body into right and left sections
What is the sagittal plane?