An intro to homeostasis and how to describe the human body

Question 1

what is homeostasis

Answer 1

The ability of a living thing to maintain relatively constant internal conditions in spite of a changing external environment

Question 2

What do homeostatic feedback mechanisms do

Answer 2

They reduce the impact of external environmental changes

Question 3

What is a receptor

Answer 3

Monitors the internal environment and detects the problem

Question 4

What is a control centre

Answer 4

Receives information from the receptor it is the set point and sometimes the same as the effector

Question 5

What is an effector

Answer 5

It receives information from the control center and find the solution for the problem, the effector brings the body back to homeostasis

Question 6

What is a negative feedback

Answer 6

This is what makes the original stimulus less intense then from the start

Question 7

What is a positive feedback

Answer 7

This is what makes the original stimulus more intense than from the start

Question 8

If you want to say something is up towards the head what is that called

Answer 8

superior

Question 9

If you want to say something is down towards the feet what is that called

Answer 9

Inferior

Question 10

my heart is considered medial or lateral

Answer 10

medial

Question 11

my spine is anterior or posterior

Answer 11

posterior

Question 12

my toes are proximal or distal

Answer 12

distal

Question 13

name the 4 quadrants

Answer 13

Right upper quadrant, left upper quadrant, left lower quadrant, right lower quadrant

Question 14

My head, neck, trunk are considered what anatomical term

Answer 14

Axial

Question 15

Appendicular consists of what body parts

Answer 15

upper an lower extremities(limbs)

Question 16

Anatomically an upper arm is called

Answer 16

Brachial

Question 17

Anatomically the forearm is called

Answer 17

Antebrachial

Question 18

Starting from the thigh to the foot, what are the anatomical terms

Answer 18

femoral, crural, pedal

Question 19

the cephalic is the

Answer 19

head

Question 20

cervical is the

Answer 20

neck

Question 21

what are the anatomical terms for upper an lower back

Answer 21

upper = dorsal
lower = lumbar

Question 22

when a plane dividing a body part into right and left sides what is that called

Answer 22

sagittal

Question 23

dividing the body into anterior and posterior is called

Answer 23

frontal

Question 24

dividing the body from superior and inferior is called

Answer 24

transverse