Anatomy And Physiology Flashcards
Name a chemical they used to keep the bodies from rotting and decaying…
Salt
The Egyptians believe that a person needed his or her body to get to heaven so they……
Dried the bodies and turn them into mummies
Egyptians remove most of the organs but what organ did they leave?
The heart
Why did the Egyptians think you needed your heart in death?
It would help you get to heaven depending on how much it weighed against a feather
The Egyptians ability to what showed how far they were in their understanding of anatomy?
Ability to dissect and preserved bodies
They believed ___ performed by their gods made them sick and made the body function the way it did
Magic
The ancient Hebrews were also called ____ and _____
Israelites and gods chosen people
God gave the Israelites ____ to protect them from tiny things called ____
Laws & germs
An organism is a ___ _____
Living thing
Gods laws to the Israelites included ____________
Instructions on how to clean themselves and their clothes
What is a hypothesis
An educated guess
What is a theory
After talking Greek philosophers would make a hypothesis a belief and call it a theory
The way the Greek philosophers found a belief left out what step??
Experimenting
Who believed that in order to be healthy our bodies needed liquid humors??
Hippocrates
What are liquid humors?
4 liquids Hippocrates believed we needed
What did Aristotle think about conducting experiments??
That u needed to not just talk about your thoughts but to conduct your experiments
What was a wrong theory by Aristotle ?
Spontaneous generation
What is spontaneous generation??
A theory that said life could come from non living things
Galen was a _____ physician who read all of _____ work
Roman & Aristotle
Galen used ____ rags soaked in ____ to treat gladiators
Clean & wine
Galen couldn’t dissect people Bc it was against _______ law
Roman
Who questioned Galen’s ideas ?
Andreas Vesalius
Who dissected human cadavers which are dead human beings
Andreas Vesalius
Anton van leewenhoek thought if he made lens correctly he could ____ things
Magnify
