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51 Cards in this Set
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What is the study of body structures and the relation of one part to another?
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Anatomy
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What is the study of the process and functions of the body tissues and organs?
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Physiology
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What is the study of the body from a fertilized egg, or ovum?
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Embryology
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This plane passes through the sagittal suture of the cranium; any plane parallel to it is called what?
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Sagittal plane
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What plane is drawn perpendicular to the sagittal lines and divide the body into right and left halves on its vertical axis?
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Frontal plane
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It divides the body into superior (upper) and inferior (lower) sections.
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Horizontal/Transverse
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What standard body position should you use to aid in understanding the location of the anatomical structure as a point of referrence?
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Anatomical position
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What anatomical term should you use when you are refering to the front, or ventral side of the body?
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Anterior/Ventral
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It involves the physical and chemical breakdown of the food we eat into its simplest forms.
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Digestion
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It is the process of absorption, storage and use of foods for body growth, maintenance, and repair.
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Metabolism
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The smallest unit of life; It is the basic structural unit of all living things and a functional unit all by itself.
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Cell
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A jelly-like substance upon which depend all the vital functions of nutrition, secretion, growth, circulation, reproduction, excitability, and movement.
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Protoplasm
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A typical cell is made up of what?
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the plasma membrane, the nucleus, and cytoplasm
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Gases and solids that pass through the plasma membrane by a process known as what?
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Diffusion
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Every human cells contains how many chromosomes?
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46
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It is the gelatineous substance surrounding the nucleus and is contained by the plasma membrane.
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Cytoplasm
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The lining tissue of the body is called what?
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Epithelial
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Epithelial cells of this type is elongated, long than they are wide.
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Columnar Epithelial Tissue
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It is a type of epithelial tissue composed of thin platelike or scalelike cells forming a mosaic pattern.
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Squamous Epithelial Tissue
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What is the name of the single cell of the amoeba (which is unicellular animal)?
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A simple or diffirentiated cell.
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What is the role of specialized cells?
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They perform special functions, such as muscle, which contracts, or epithelial cells of the skin, which protects.
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What are specialized cells similar in structure and function?
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Tissues
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What are the main groups of tissues?
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Epithelial, connective, muscular, and nervous
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What is indicated by the anatomical term "proximal"?
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Nearer to the point of origin or closer to the body
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What is indicated by the anatomical term "distal?"
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Away from the point of origin or away from the body
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What is indicated by the anatomical term "supine?"
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Lying position of the body, face up
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What is indicated by the anatomical term "lateral recumbent?"
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Lying position of the body on either side
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What is indicated by the anatomicla term "peripheral?"
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The outward part or sirface of the structure
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What is indicated by the anatomical term "superior?"
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Higher than or above
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What is indicated by the anatomical term "distal?"
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Away from the point of origin or away from the body
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What is indicated by the anatomical term "supine?"
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Lying position of the body, face up
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What is indicated by the anatomical term "lateral recumbent?"
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Lying position of the body on either side
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What is indicated by the anatomicla term "peripheral?"
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The outward part or sirface of the structure
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What is indicated by the anatomical term "superior?"
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Higher than or above
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What is indicated by the anatomical term "distal?"
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Away from the point of origin or away from the body
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What is indicated by the anatomical term "supine?"
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Lying position of the body, face up
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What is indicated by the anatomical term "lateral recumbent?"
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Lying position of the body on either side
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What is indicated by the anatomicla term "peripheral?"
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The outward part or sirface of the structure
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What is indicated by the anatomical term "superior?"
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Higher than or above
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What is the name of the single cell of the amoeba (which is unicellular animal)?
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A simple or diffirentiated cell.
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What is the role of specialized cells?
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They perform special functions, such as muscle, which contracts, or epithelial cells of the skin, which protects.
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What are specialized cells similar in structure and function?
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Tissues
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What are the main groups of tissues?
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Epithelial, connective, muscular, and nervous
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What is indicated by the anatomical term "proximal"?
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Nearer to the point of origin or closer to the body
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What is indicated by the anatomical term "cranial?"
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Toward the head
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What is indicated by the anatomical term "caudal?"
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Toward the lower end of the body
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What is indicated by the anatomical term "inferior?"
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Lower than or below
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What is the anatomical position?
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When the body stands erect with the arms hanging at the sides and the palms of the hands turned forward.
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What is indicated by the anatomical term "posterior" or "dorsal?"
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Toward the back side of the body
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What is indicated by the anatomical term "medial?"
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Near or toward the midline of the body
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What is indicated by the anatomical term "lateral?"
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Farther away from the midline of the body
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