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What is the basic unit of all living things?
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Cells
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What is the substance that all living things are composed of?
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Protoplasm
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What is the watery fluid that cells need for growth reproduction and self repair? it surrounds the nucleus
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Cytoplasm
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A colorless jelly like substance in which food elements such as proteins fats carbs mineral salts and wate are persent?
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Protoplasm
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What contains all the protoplasm?
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Cell membrane
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What is the reproduction process known as for cells?
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Mitosis
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What is the chemical process that takes place in living organisms whereby the cells are nourishes and carry out their activities?
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Metabolism
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What serves to support, protect and bind together other tissues of the body?
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Connective tissue
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What is a protective covering on the body surfaces?
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Epithelial tissue
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What tissue is such as blood and lymph, carries food waste products and hormones through the body
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Liquid tissue
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What contracts and moves the various parts of the body?
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Muscular tissue
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What carries messages to and from the brain and controls the coordinates all bodily functions?
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Nerve tissue
composed of special cells known as neurons which make up nerves brain and spinal cord |
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What are group of tissues designed to perform a specific function?
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Organs
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What is the physical foundation of the body?
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The skeletal system
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What is the study of anatomy, structure and function of the bones?
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Osteology
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What are the two parts of the skull?
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Cranium(8 bones) and facial skeleton(14 bones)
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Where is the occipital bone?
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Hindmost bone, below the parietal bones, forms the back of the skull and nape
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Where are the two parietal bones?
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Forms the sides and crown of the cranium
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Where is the frontal bone?
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Forms the forehead
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Two temporal bones
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Forms the sides of the head and the ear region
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Where is the ethmoid bone?
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bone between the eye socets and forms part of the nasal cavities (light and spongy bone)
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What is the sphenoid bone?
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joins all the bones of the cranium together
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How many and what are the bones of the cranium?
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8. occipital, two parietal bones, frontal bone, two temporal bones, ethmoid bone, sphenoid bone
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What bones are not affected by massage?
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ethmoid and shyenoid
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Where are the two nasal bones?
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the bridge of the nose
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Where are the two lacrimal bones?
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Small thin bones located at the front inner wall of the eye sockets
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What do the zygomatic or malar bones form?
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prominence of the cheeks; cheekbones
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What is the name of the upper jaw bone?
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Maxillae (two) (singular: maxilla)
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what is the thin layer of spongy bone on either side of the other walls of the nasal depression?
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Tubinal bones (also referred to as turbinate bones)
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What is the flat thin bone that forms part of the nasal septum?
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Vomer bone
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What is they hyoid bone?
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U-shaped bone at the base of the tongue that supports the tongue and its muscles
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what are the seven bones of the top part of the vertebal column located in the neck region?
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cervical vertebrae
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where is the thorax?
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the chest
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how many ribs are there?
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12 pairs
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what is the scapula?
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shoulder blades
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where is the sternum?
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breastbone
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what is he clavicle?
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collarbone
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what is the uppoermost and largest bone of the arm extending from the elbow to the shoulder?
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humerus
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Where is the ulna?
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inner and larger bone of the forearm attached to the wrist and located on the side of the little finger
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where is the smaller bone in the forearm on the same side as the thumb?
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radius
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what is the carpus?
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the wrist
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what are the bones of the palm of the hand
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metacarpus (containing 5 bones between the carpus and phalanges)
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what is the femur?
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a heavy long bone that forms the leg above the knee
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what is the tibia?
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the larger of the two bones that form the leg below the knee. (may be visualized as a "bump" on the littletoe side of the ankle)
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what is the patella?
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forms the knee cap joint (also called the accessory bone)
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what three bones is the ankle joint made up of?
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tibia, fibula and the talus
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how many bones is the foot made up of?
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26 (three categories, seven tarsal bones, five metatarsal bones, and 14 bones called phlanges)
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What covers shapes and supports the skeleton tissue?
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Muscular system
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how many major body systems are there?
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10 (circulatory, digestive, endorcine, excetory, integumentary, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respiratory, skeletal)
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how many muscles does the human body have?
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over 600
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what is myology?
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the study of the structure, function and diseases of the muscles
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what are the three types of muscular tissue?
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striated muscles, nonstriated muscles, cardiac muscles
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which muscle tissue os voluntary and attached to the bones?
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striated muscles (helps maintainging the bodys posture and protect some internal oragns)
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what is the smooth muscles and are involuntary and function automatically
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nonstraited (found in the internal orangs such as the digestive or respiratory system)
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what is the cardiac muscle?
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the involuntary muscle that is the heart
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what are the three parts of the muscle and what do they do?
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origin, insertion, belly
origin is the part that does not move and is attached to the skeleton insertion is the part of the muscle at the more movable attachment to the skeleton and the belly is the middle part of the muscle |
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what is the muscle that covers the top of the skull consists of the occipitalis and frontalis?
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Epicranius or occipito-frontalis
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What is the occipitalis do?
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the muscle that draws the scalp backward
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What is the frontalis do?
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raises the eyebrows, draw the scalp forward and causes wrinkles across the forehead
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What isthe epicranial aponeurosis?
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tendon that connects the occipitalis and frontalis
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what is the muscle above the ear that draws the ear upward?
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auricularis suprior (draws upward)
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what is the muscle that drawsthe ear forward
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auricularis anterior(draws forward)
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what is the muscle behind the ear that draws the ear backward?
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auricularis posterior (draws ear backward
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what are the muscles coordinating in the opening and closing the mouth movement?
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masseter and temporalis
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