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| anterior body trunk inferior to ribs |
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| anterior surface of elbow |
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| curve of shoulder formed by large deltoid muscle |
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| area where thigh meets body trunk; groin |
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| area overlying the pelvis anteriorly |
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| area of back between ribs and hips |
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| posterior surface of head |
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| posterior surface of elbow |
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| the posterior surface of lower leg; the calf |
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| study of the structure and shape of the body and its parts and their relationships to one another |
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| study of how the body and it's part work or function |
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| tiny building blocks of matter |
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| smallest units of all living things |
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| groups of similar cells that have similar functions |
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| structure composed of two or more tissue types that performs a specific function for the body |
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| group of organs that work together to accomplish a common purpose |
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| represents the highest level of structural organization; living body |
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| external covering of the body, or the skin |
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| bones, cartilages, ligaments, and joints |
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| skeletal muscles form ____ |
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| body's fast-acting control system |
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| controls body activities, but it acts much more slowly |
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| using blood as the transporting fluid, carries oxygen, nutrients, hormones, and other substances to and from the tissue cells where exchanges are made |
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| returns fluid leaked from the blood back to the blood vessels so that blood can be kept continuously circulating through the body |
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| keeps the body constantly supplied with oxygen and removes carbon dioxide |
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| breaks down food and delivers the products to the blood for dispersal to the body cells |
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| removes the nitrogen-containing wastes from the blood and flushes them from the body |
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| all the activities promoted by the muscular system |
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| responsiveness or irritability |
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| ability to sense changes (stimuli) in the environment and then to react to them |
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| process of breaking down ingested food into simple molecules that can then be absorbed into the blood |
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| broad term that refers to all chemical reactions that occur within body cells |
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| process of removing wastes from the body |
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| production of offspring; can occur on the cellular or organismal level |
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| increase in size, usually accomplished by an increase in the number of cells |
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| nutrients, oxygen, water, and appropriate temperature and atmospheric pressure |
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| body's ability to maintain relatively stable internal conditions even though the outside world is continuously changing |
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| sensor that monitors and responds to changes in the environment |
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| determines the level at which a variable is to be maintained, analyzes the information it receives, and determines the appropriate response or course of action |
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| provides the means for the control center's response to the stimulus |
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| body is erect with feet parallel and arms hanging at the sides with the palms facing forward |
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| allow medical personnel and anatomists to explain exactly where one body structure is in relation to another |
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| the imaginary line when a section is made through the body wall or through an organ |
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| cut along the lengthwise, or longitudinal, plane of the body, dividing the body into right and left parts |
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| median or midsagittal section |
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| the cut is down the middle plane of the body and the right and left parts are equal in size |
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| frontal section or coronal section |
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| cut along a lengthwise plane that divides the body into anterior and posterior parts |
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| transverse section or cross section |
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| cut along a horizontal plane, dividing the body or organ into superior and inferior parts |
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| superior (cranial or cephalad) |
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| close to the origin of the body part or the point of attachment of a limb to the body trunk |
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| farther from the origin of a body part or the point of attachment of a limb to the body trunk |
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| toward or at the body surface |
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| away from the body surface |
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| cranial cavity and spinal cavity are in this body cavity |
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| contains thoracic cavity, diaphragm, mediastinum, abdominopelvic cavity |
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| contains lungs, heart, etc |
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| separates thoracic from rest of ventral cavity |
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| separates the lungs into right and left cavities; houses heart, trachea, and other visceral organs |
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| contains stomach, liver, intestines, etc |
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| contains reproductive organs, bladder, and rectum |
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| consists of oral and digestive cavities, nasal cavity, orbital cavities, and middle ear cavities |
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