Chapter 1

Question 1

A disease of short duration but typically severe

Answer 1

Acute

Question 2

The treatment of disease or mental disorder by The use of chemical substances especially the treatment of cancer by cytotoxic and other drugs

Answer 2

Chemotherapy

Question 3

Illness persisting for a long time or constantly reoccurring

Answer 3

Chronic

Question 4

The branch of science that deals with the incidence distribution and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health

Answer 4

Epidemiology

Question 5

The science and study of the causes of diseases

Answer 5

Etiology

Question 6

Denoting any disease or condition of unknown cause

Answer 6

Idiopathic

Question 7

The state of being deceased or not healthy or the incidence of disease in a population

Answer 7

Morbidity

Question 8

The functional changes that accompany a particular syndrome or disease

Answer 8

Pathophysiology

Question 9

A condition characterized by a group of associated symptoms

Answer 9

Syndrome

Question 10

The practice of listening to various sounds made by body organs with a stethoscope

Answer 10

Auscultation

Question 11

Separates anterior and posterior portions of the body

Answer 11

Frontal or coronal plane

Question 12

Separates right and left portions of the body

Answer 12

Sagittal plane

Question 13

Separates the body into superior and inferior

Answer 13

Transverse plane

Question 14

A corrective mechanism that opposes or negates a variation from normal limits

Answer 14

Negative feedback

Question 15

The mechanism that increases a deviation from normal limits after an initial stimulus

Answer 15

Positive feedback

Question 16

What cavity contains the lungs and heart

Answer 16

The thoracic cavity

Question 17

What is the mass of tissue that separates the right and left pleural cavities

Answer 17

Mediastinum

Question 18

What are the two subdivisions of the abdominopelvic cavity

Answer 18

Abdominal and inferior pelvic cavity

Question 19

Contains the liver stomach spleen small intestine and most of the large intestine

Answer 19

Abdominal cavity

Question 20

Contains the urinary bladder various reproductive organs and the distal portion of the large intestine

Answer 20

Pelvic cavity

Question 21

Changes in activity that maintain homeostasis and direct response to changes in the local environment this does not require neural or endocrine control

Answer 21

Autoregulation

Question 22

A process that results from the activities of the nervous system are endocrine system

Answer 22

Extrinsic regulation

Question 23

A sensor that is sensitive to a particular stimulus or environmental change

Answer 23

Receptor

Question 24

Receives and processes the information supplied by the receptor and sends out commands

Answer 24

Control center

Question 25

A cell or organ that responds to the commands of the control center and whose activity either apposes or enhances the stimulus

Answer 25

Effector

Question 26

The study of the general form of the body surface especially in relation to its deeper parts

Answer 26

Surface anatomy or superficial anatomy

Question 27

Focuses on the anatomical organization of specific areas of the body such as the head neck or trunk

Answer 27

Regional anatomy

Question 28

The study of the relationship of the body structures by examining cross-sections of the tissue or organ

Answer 28

Sectional anatomy

Question 29

The study of the structure of organ systems

Answer 29

Systematic anatomy

Question 30

Describes the changes informed that take place between conception and adult

Answer 30

Developmental anatomy

Question 31

System that includes the skin hair and nails of the human body

Answer 31

Integumentary system