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| Nucleus, plasma membrane, cytoplasm |
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| Fire, hot surface, UV light or electric current |
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| Cover and protect body surfaces, line body cavities and cover inner surfaces of the hollow organs |
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| 1st degree, affects epidermis, 2nd degree affects deep epidermis and upper layers of dermis and 3rd complete destruction of dermis and epidermis |
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| Protection, temperature regulation, sense organ activity, excretion and synthesis of vitamin D |
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| are support cells that hold neurons together and protect them, no nerve impulses |
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| are astrocytes (large star shaped), micro glia (smaller phagocytosis), oligodendrocytes (form myelin sheaths and hold nerve fibers together) |
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| walls of the heart, striated, involuntary, contracts the heart and intercalated disks |
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| Small, cushion-like sac found alongside joints, cushioning moving bones |
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| toward the midline of the body |
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| toward the side or away from the midline |
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| toward or nearest trunk of the body |
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| away form or farthest away from the trunk |
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| farther away from the surface |
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| body is lying face upward |
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| body is lying face downward |
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| lengthwise plane running from front to back, divides body or any of its parts into left and right sides |
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| sagittal place where body is cut into two equal halve |
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| lengthwise plane running from side to side, divides body or any of its parts into anterior and posterior positions |
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| horizontal or crosswise plane, divides body or any of its parts into upper and lower portions |
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Cranial cavity
spinal cavity
thoracic cavity
pleural cavities
abdominal cavity
abdominopelvic cavity
pelvic cavity |
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| Body is in an erect or standing posture with arms at the sides and the palms forward. Head and feet also point forward |
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| study of the structure of an organism and the relationship of its parts |
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| Structural levels of organization |
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Cells
tissues
organs
systems |
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| Cell digestive bag, it breaks apart large molecules |
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| Contains DNA, which dictates protein synthesis, thereby playing an essential role in other cell activities such as transport, metabolism, growth and heredity |
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| long whiplike projection on the sperm; similar to cilia but much longer |
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| Hairlike cell surface extensions supported by an internal cylinder made of microtubules |
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| Process of blood cell formation |
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| Functions of the skeletal system |
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Support
protection
movement
storage
hematopolesis |
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| Examples of long, short, irregular and flat bones |
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Long – humerous
Short – carpals
Flat – frontal or skull bone
Irregular – vertebrae or spinal bones |
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| a hollow tube made of hard, compact bone, hence a rigid and strong structure light enough in weight to permit easy movement |
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| hollow area inside the diaphysis of a bone, contains soft yellow bone marrow, an inactive, fatty form of marrow found in the adult skeleton |
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| ends of the bone, red bone marrow fills in small spaces in the spongy bone composing the epiphyses |
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| thin layer of cartilage covering each epiphyses; functions like a small rubber cushion would if it were placed over the ends of bones where they form a joint |
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| strong fibrous membrane covering a long bone everywhere except at joint surfaces, where it is covered by articular cartilage |
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| thin membrane that lines the medullary cavity |
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| Located in neck and is in the axial skeleton |
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| Called chondrocytes are located in many tiny spaces distributed throughout the matrix |
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| straightening a joint out |
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| movement along a longitudinal axis |
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| move the distal end of a body part in a circular path |
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| moving away from the midline of the body |
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| moving toward the midline of the body |
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| Special muscle that makes up heart, involuntary contractions |
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| Smooth, involuntary, found in hollow organs and walls of blood vessels |
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| Where are intercalated disks found? |
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| Origin, insertion (regarding muscle attachment to bone) |
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Attachment of muscle to bone, doesn’t move w/ contraction
Attachment of muscle to bone, moves w/ contraction |
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| Two Divisions of the nervous system? |
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| Inner most layer of retina, contains rods and cones, responds to light stimulus by producing nerve impulse |
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| Colored portion of the eye |
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| Opening in the center of the iris that regulates the amount of light entering the eye |
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| Where is the vitreous humor located in the eye? |
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| Behind the lens, in the posterior chamber |
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| Auricle, external auditory canal |
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| What is the organ of hearing? |
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| What is another word for the anterior pituitary? |
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| FSH hormone function male |
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| development of ovarian follicles and secretion of estrogen |
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| FSH hormone function female |
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| stimulates seminiferous tubules of testes to grow and produce sperm |
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| Functions of the endocrine glands |
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| Secrete hormones into intercellular space where they diffuse into bloodstream |
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| Tropic hormone, stimulates secretion of thyroid hormones |
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| Accelerate catabolism (increases body’s metabolic rate) |
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| Important role in development and function in immune system |
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| Secretes melatonin which inhibits ovarian activity and regulates body’s internal clock |
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| Importance of iodine in our diet |
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| Needed for thyroid hormone synthesis |
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| Excess number of red blood cells |
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| Deficiency of red blood cells |
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| Another name for erythrocytes |
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| Another name for platelets |
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| Where is the heart located? |
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| Just left of the midline, located between the lungs in the lower portion of the mediastinum |
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Left and right atria (receiving chambers)
Left and right ventricles (discharging chambers) |
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| Pericardium, visceral pericardium (epicardium) and pericardium |
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| Carrying blood toward the heart |
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| Carrying blood away from the heart |
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| Difficult or labored breathing |
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| Temporary cessation of breathing |
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| Another name for pulmonary ventilation |
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| Windpipes, tubes, 11 cm long approx. |
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| Diaphragm and external intercostals |
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| Triangular divisions of medulla |
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| Anatomical and functional unit of the kidney, consisting of the renal corpuscle and the renal tubule |
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| Unusually large amounts of urine |
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| Gastrointestinal tract in an adult |
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| 29 ft long hollow tube, alimentary canal |
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| Any of the small tubes that drain bile out of the liver |
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| Joins with the common hepatic duct to form the common bile duct |
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| Extensions of the peritoneum? |
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| Mesentary and greater omentum |
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| What is a pulse and where can it be felt on the body? |
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| Alternating expansion and recoil of the aterial walls produced by the alternate contraction and relaxation of the ventricles; travels as a wave away from the heart, can be felt on arteries |
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