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Chapter One- The Introduction
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Anatomy
Undergraduate 1
08/31/2012

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Physiology studies the __________ of body parts
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function
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meaning that it studies the _______ of parts
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actions
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how they work or the ______ that parts carry out
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job
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the exact structure of each type of body part _______
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differs
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from all other kinds of body parts- this is called the __________ or the ____________________
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differentiation or specialization of body parts
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the structure of a part of the body determines what _______________________
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function it carries out
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__________ are the first cells that form in the human embryo, including the fertilized ______ cell
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Stem Cells, egg
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these are _____________ cells aka __________ cells
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undifferentiated, nonspecialized
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a differentiated cell is a __________ cell
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specialized
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meaning that a specialized cell is individualized in its ____________ so as to _________________________________________
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structure, perform only the function of the time it belongs to
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embryonic stem cells are ______ ________ __ ______ _________ 
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cultures easily in lab containers
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______________ are located in many organs and tissues in adults
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adult stem cells
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adult stem cells main function: to ______________ the tissue in which they are located
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maintain and repair
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The ____________ of regenerative medicine aka ________________________________
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new clinical procedures, translational engineering
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The new clinical procedures of regenerative medicine include _________________________________
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cell therapy, tissue engineering, and whole organ engineering
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today doctors can remove a patient's own adult stem cells to ___________ bone, cartilage, a trachea, urinary bladder, and heart valves, which are then ____________ back into the patient
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regenerate, transplanted, patient
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Using _________________ bioengineering to replace an injured or diseased organ: the surgeon removes a small piece of _______ from a diseased organ
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whole organ, tissue
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__________ are removed from the tissue piece and cultured in large quantities __ _____ meaning _______ the body in a laboratory vessel
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stem cells, in vessel, outside
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Why are these breakthroughs in regenerative medicine important?
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over 1/2 millon people die each year in the USA from three types of organ failure: heart disease, chronic lung disease, and kidney failure
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____ of all patients on the ____________ are waiting for a kidney--- a high percentage of them _____ _____ ______
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90%, transplant waiting list, die while waiting
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___________: the body's maintenance of relatively ______ or _________ internal conditions, even though the ________ word in continually unchanging
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Homeostasis, stable, unchanging, outside
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homeostasis allows ________ _________ to change, but only with narrow limits
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internal conditions
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The maintaining of a relatively constant body ______, blood pressure, and heart _____, as well as sugar, salt, and oxygen levels in the blood and other body fluids
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temp, rate, oxygen
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Homeostasis is vital to our ___________________, minute-by-minute, 24 hours of each day
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survival and health
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Most __________ can result from homeostasis' disturbance
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diseases
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homeostasis can be severly disrupted by ______
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injury
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How does the body control homeostasis?
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by the nervous and endoctrine systems
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homeostatic control mechanisms are either _________________________ feedback mechanisms
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negative or positive
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In homoestatic control mechanisms ________________________ are by far the most common type of feedback mechanisms 
Definition
negative feedback mechanisms
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The three basic types of negative feedback mechanisms are ______ ________ and _________
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receptor, control center, an effector
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A receptor acts as a sensor--detects ________ in the enviroment

 

Definition
changes
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Changes in a receptor and the outside enviroment are called ______________
Definition
stimuli
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As a receptor detects a stimulus it ________________________________ -a message- when then travels to a control center
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converts it into a nerve impulse
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The second component of a negative control mechanisms is ________________ -- this is the "normal" for an internal variable that it controls, such as heart rate -- e.g giving it a set point of about 72 heartbeats per minute
Definition
Control Center
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The control center receives and analyzes the ___________ it recieves from the receptor. If this detects a change to a point that is too high or low, it sends commands to an effector that ______________________________________
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information, resist the change
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The third type of negative feedback mechanism is the _______, this responds by __________________ the effect of a stimulus 
Definition
resisting
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An effector acts negatively to the _________________
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stimulus
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Why does the horomone that is controlled by negative feedback mechanisms decrease blood calcium levels?

It's activity _________________ by ________ the amount of the stimulus.

Definition
provides negative feedback, decreasing
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Cervical:
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Neck
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Mammary:
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Breast
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Brachial: only refering to the upper limb from the shoulder to the ___.
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Arm
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Thoracic:
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thorax or chest
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The terms, left and right, always refer to these sides of the body as the ________ sees them, not as the doctor (or anatomy student) sees them
Definition
patient
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______________ -- each means closer to the _____ surface of the body
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Anterior and ventral, front
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__________________________ -- each means closer to the ______ surface of the body
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posterior and dorsal, back
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superior means _______ or _______ than; example: the nose is _________ to the mouth
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above, higher, superior
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inferior means ______ or ______ than; example: the ______ is inferior to the wrist
Definition
below, lower, hand
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__________ means toward or closer to an attached base -- usually of a limb; example: the hand is distal to the _______
Definition
proximal, hand
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__________ means further ___________an _________ base
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away from, attached
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The thoracic cavity is the _______ cavity
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chest
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The thoracic cavity contains the _______ and _______
Definition
heart and lung
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Abdominopelvic cavity extends from the _________ muscle (its _______ border) to the pelvis
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diaphram, upper
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The abdominal cavity contains the ______, _______, and ________
Definition
liver, stomach, intestines
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