Anatomical Terms
This term refers to the neck region.
What is cervical?
This structure connects muscle to bone.
What is a tendon?
This type of muscle tissue is found only in the heart.
What is cardiac muscle tissue?
A scalelike modification of the epidermis that corresponds to the hoof or claw of other animals.
What are nails?
The space in which the bone cell sits in.
What are lacunae?
This muscle separates the thoracic cavity from the abdominal pelvic cavity.
What is the diaphragm?
Another name for a muscle cell.
What is a muscle fiber?
This type of tissue translates into a single layer of flattened cells.
What is simple squamous?
The region of the dermis that is responsible for your fingerprints.
What is the papillary layer?
The name of the bone that is found under the mandible that does not articulate with any other bone.
What is the hyoid bone?
What is proximal?
This type of muscle is subject to conscious control.
What is a voluntary muscle?
This tissue is commonly referred to as fat.
What is adipose tissue?
A pigment that ranges in color from yellow to brown to black.
What is melanin?
The name of the bone that is the most posterior bone of the cranium.
This is a cut along the lengthwise or longitudinal plane of the body, dividing the body into right and left parts.
What is sagittal?
Another name for the calf muscle.
What is the gastrocnemius?
This cell is only found in nervous tissue.
What are neurons?
The lowest layer of the epidermis.
What is the stratum basal layer?
Another name for the growth plate.
What is the epiphyseal plate?
The study of how the body or parts work or function.
What is physiology?
When a phosphate group is removed from creatinine phosphate and added to an ADP molecule to make ATP.
What is direct phosphorylation?
The hardest, densest connective tissue of the body.
What is bone.
What is dense fibrous connective tissue?
What is a depressed fracture?