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Name the four Humors
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1)Blood
2)Phlegm 3)Yellow Bile 4)Black Bile |
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What are the three stages of disease that the Greeks postulated?
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1)Imbalance between the humors
2)A boiling reaction to this imbalance(fever) 3)Discharge of the imbalanced humor or death |
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Who is often lauded as the "Father" or Western medicine?
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Hippocrates
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Hippocrates believed that a balance of the bodily elements determined one's health and thought that disease was caused by ______________________
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the domination of a single element
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What is the foundation of medicine?
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Anatomy
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What oath is taken when medical students promise to practice medecine with the highest ethics?
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The Hippocratic Oath
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What is the name that is used to describe the passage from the stomach to the intestine?
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Duodenum - also described as dodekadaktylon
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What does the pulmonary theory describe?
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It describes the heart as a pump and delineated the auricles of the heart, the cardiac valves, and many blood vessels
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Erasistratus erraneously suggested what?
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He thought that veins carried blood, arteries transported "animal spirits" and nerves transported "nervous spirits."
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What two occupations were Galen known for?
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Physician and anatomist
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Who wrote the Arab test, The Canon of Medicine?
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Ibn Sina
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Who is regarded as the founder of modern anatomy?
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Andreas Vasilius
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Vasilius advanced major development in medical theory with what two techniques?
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Unprecedented dissections of humans and his detailed notes and drawings of his findings
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Vesalius published a collection of labeled illustrations titled what?
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Tabulae Sex
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In 1543, Vesalius published what book?
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De Humani Corporis Fabrica
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Who discovered the pulmonary circuit of the blood circulating from the right chamber of the heart to the lungs and discovered that the septum was impermeable?
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Michael Servetus
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Name the three divisions of Anatomy
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Gross anatomy, Microscopic anatomy, and Radiological Anatomy
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Name the three different section of the bodies that are located on the three different planes
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Sagittal, Transverse, and Frontal
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Name the 8 different body positions
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Superior, Inferior, Anterior, Posterior, Medial, Lateral, Proximal, and Distal
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Name the four body cavaties and the organs that they encase
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Cranial - encases the brain
Spinal Cavity - encloses the spinal cord.... Thoracic Cavity - Heart, esophagus, and the organs of the respiratory system Abdominal Cavity - organs of the digestive, reproductive, excretory systems |
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What is required to maintain homeostasis?
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energy....
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What are the smallest structures known to exhibit the characteristics of life?
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CELLS....no kidding o_O
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What is the universal solvent?
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worter(water) duuuhzz >_<
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What is the function of epithelial tissues?
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They cover body surfaces, form te inner linings of body cavaties, and/or line organs
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What is the most abundant tissue in the body?
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connective tissu3
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Bones are composed of layers of __________matrix produced by ________
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Collagen
osteoblasts |
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Name the three types of muscles
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Cardia, skeletal, and smooth muscle
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