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| Levels of Structural Organization |
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| Chemical, Cellular, Tissue, Organ, System and Organismal |
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| sum of all chemical processes that occur in the body |
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| Components: Skin and structures derived from it, such as hair nails, sweat glands and oil glands; Functions: protects the body, helps make vitamin D, and detects sensations such as touch, pain, warmth, and cold |
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| Components: Bones and joints and their associated cartilages; Functions: Supports and protects the body, provides a surface area for muscle attachments aids body movements, houses cells that produce blood cells, stores minerals and lipids |
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| Components:Muscles composed of skeletal muscle tissue (attaches to bone); Functions: Produces body movements, stabilizes body position, generates heat |
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| Components: Brain, spinal cord, nerves, and special sense orogans; Functions: Generates action potentials to regulate body activities, detects changes in the body's internal and external environment, interpret and respond. |
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| the body's ability to detect and respond to changes |
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| the breakdown of complex chemical substances into simpler components |
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| the building up of complex chemical substances from smaller,simpler components |
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| Metabolism, Responsiveness, Movement, Growth, Differentiation, Reproduction |
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| the condition of eqilibrium in the body's internal environment due to the ceaseless interplay of the body's many regulatory processes |
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| Intracellular fluid (ICF) |
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| Extracellular fluid (ECF) |
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| fluid outside the body of the cells; includes interstitial fluid |
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| the extracellular fluid that fills the narrow spaces between cells of tissues |
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| ECF within lymphatic vessels |
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| ECF in and around the brain and the spinal cord |
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| Aqueous humor and vitreous body |
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| Feedback System (or loop) |
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| cycle of events in which the status of a body condition is monitored, evaluated, changed, remonitored, reevaluated |
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| each monitored variable of the feeback loop; e.g. temperature, blood pressure, or blood glucose level |
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| any disruption that changes a controlled condition |
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| body structure that monitors changes in a controlled condition and sends input to a control center |
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| (brain) sets values within a controlled condition should be maintained , evaluates the input it and generates output commands |
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| body structure that receives output from the control center |
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| reverses a change in a controlled condition; e.g. blood pressure (high blood pressure causes control center to send message to heart to decrease rate thus decreasing BP |
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| receptors; pressure sensitive nerve cells located in the walls of certain blood vessels, detect the higher pressure |
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| tends to strengthen or reinforce a change in one of the body's controlled conditions; e.g. childbirth: contractions push baby into nerve receptors->cc->release of oxytocin->more is released with pressure till birth |
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| any abnormality of structure or function |
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| illness characterized by a recognizable set of sign and symptoms |
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| affects one part or limited region of the body |
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| affects either the enitre body or several parts of it |
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| subjective changes that are not apparent to observer |
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| objective changes that a clinician can observe and measure |
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| toward the head; upper part |
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| away from the head; lower part |
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| on the same side of the body |
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| on the opposite side of the body |
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| nearer to the attachment of a limb to the trunk; nearer to origin of the structure |
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| Farther from the attachment of a limb to the trunk; farther from origin |
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| toward or on the surface of the body |
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| away from the surface of the body |
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| vertical plane that divides the body/organ into right and left; "mid"-equal parts, "para"-unequal |
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| divides the body/organ into anterior/posterior (front and back portions) |
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| divides the body/organ into superior/inferior (upper and lower portions) |
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| passes through the body/organ at an angle |
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| contains cranial cavity and vertebral cavity |
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| formed by cranial bones; contains brain |
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| formed by vertebral column; contains spinal cord and the beginnings of the spinal nerves |
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| made up of pleural and pericardial cavities and mediastinum |
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| surrounds each lung; pleura(sm) |
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| surrounds the heart; pericardium(sm) |
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| central portion of thoracic cavity between the lungs; extends from sternum to vertebral column and from neck to diaphragm; contains heart, thymus, esophagus, trachea, and several large blood vessels |
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| contains abdominal and pelvic cavities |
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| contains thoracic (pleural, pericardial, mediastinum) and abdominopelvic (abdominal and pelvic cavities) |
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| contains stomach, spleen, liver, gallbladder, small intestine, and most of large intestine; peritoneum (sm) |
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| contains urinary bladder, portions of large intestine and internal organs of reproduction |
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| dome-shaped muscle that separates the thoracic cavity from the abdominopelvic cavity |
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| covers the viscera within the thoracic and abdominal cavities and also lines the walls of the thorax and abdomen; parietal and visceral layer |
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| (sm)which lines the walls of the cavities |
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| (sm) which covers and adheres to the viscera within the cavities |
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