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Chapter 1- Intro to A&P Flashcards

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Palpation

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Feeling with hands (ex: pulse)

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Anatomy

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The study of form/structure

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Auscultation

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Listening to natural sounds of the body (heart, lungs)

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Percussion

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Tapping for echo sounds- reveals abnormal pockets of air/fluid

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Physiology

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The study of function

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Properties of life

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Cellular organization, biochemical unity (proteins, lipids, carbs, DNA), metabolism, responsiveness, development

BORDM

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Catabolism

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Breaking bond; breaking things down to release energy

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Anabolism

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Making bond; synthesis that requires energy to go into chemical bonds

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Excrete

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Only used for urine/feces

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Secretion

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Tears, sweat, etc.

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Pathology

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Study of disease (Patho- means sick/ill)

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Reductionism

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Suggests that a human body can be understood by studying its simpler components

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Holism

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Suggest that there are properties possessed by the whole organism that are not apparent from the study of its parts, such as psychological factors

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The inductive method of the scientific method

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Involves making numerous observations and then forming generalizations and predictions

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The hypothetico-deductive method

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Begins with the formulating of a hypothesis followed by a deduction.

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Scientific fact

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Observation

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Law of nature

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Generalization supported by much scientific evidence

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Theory

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Well-substantiated statement designed to explain a natural phenomenon (simple event)

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Dynamic (changing) equilibrium

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Balanced change

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Feedback loops

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General name for these mechanisms which alter the original changes that triggered them

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Extrinsic regulation

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Involves nervous or endocrine (hormone) systems

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Hormones

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Chemical messengers produced in one part of the body having an effect in another (target)

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Negative feedback

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Main way body returns to stable conditions (homeostasis); ex: thermostat; vasoconstriction/vasodilatation of blood vessels to exchange heat with outside environment

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Integumentary organ system

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Protect tissues, regulate body temp, support sensory receptors (ex: skin, hair, nails, sweat glands)

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Skeletal system

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Provide framework, protect soft tissue, provide attachments for muscles, produce red blood cells (bones, ligaments, cartilage)

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Muscular system

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Cause movements, maintain posture, produce body heat (muscles)

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Nervous system

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Detect changes, receive and interrupt sensory info, stimulate muscles and glands (brain, spinal cord, nerves, sense organs)

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Endocrine system

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Control metabolic activities (glands that secrete hormones (pituitary, thyroid, adrenal, etc.)

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Cardiovascular

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Move blood through blood vessels and transport substances through body (heart, arteries, capillaries, veins)

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Lymphatic

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Return tissue fluid to the blood, carry certain absorbed food molecules, defend the body against infection (lymphatic vessels, lymph nodes, thymus, spleen)

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Zygote

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Fusion of sperm and egg

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What is the main function of sweating?

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To cool off

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Assimilation

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Becomes part of your body

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Prokaryotic cell

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More primitive; no nuclear membrane; genetic material is in cytoplasm just not protected by nuclear membrane

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Eukaryotic cell

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Have nuclear membranes

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What is unique about red blood cells?

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When they are being synthesized in bone marrow, they have a nucleus. However, once they become red blood cells, they no longer have a nucleus or genetic material

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What’s the one part of the body that has many nuclei in one single cell?

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Muscle

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Auto feedback

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Body automatically does “it”; don’t have to think about it

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Negative feedback

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Main way body returns to stable conditions; vasodilation/constriction to exchange heat with environment

Stops a process; we make things but need to know when to stop making them

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Positive feedback

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Self- amplifying cycle for quick results

Alot of times this is harmful; tells “it” to keep going

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Dolton (atomic mass unit (amu))

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Mass of one proton; structure of nucleus (protons neutrons electrons)

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Denatured enzyme

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Affected by pH or temperature; when a protein changes shape and can no longer functioning.

functioning —–> nonfunctioning

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Biochemical unity

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All living things contain similar components: proteins, lipids, carbs, and DNA; unique to living materials or those of biological origin

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Metabolism

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All physical and chemical changes that occur within living cells either catabolism or anabolism; assists in maintenance of homeostasis

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Responsiveness

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Excitability via detention of a change in conditions; detection by cell (eye, taste) reaction to stress via receptors may cause an action by an effector (muscle, gland)

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Development

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Change in form and/or function over lifetime

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Growth

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Increase in size

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Differentiation

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Non specialized ➡️ specialization

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When is a person declared legally dead?

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When they don’t show brain waves for 30mins, has no reflexes, and no heartbeat or respiration without assistance

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Organism

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Single complete individual

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Organ system

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Group of organs; unique purpose

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Tissues

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Group of similar cells and non-living producers serving a specific function; may form a discrete region of an organ

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What are the 4 major classes of tissue

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Muscular, nervous, epithelial, connective

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Cells

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Smallest unit of an organism capable of performing all basic functions of life; surrounded by membrane

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Organelles

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Microscopic cellular structures that carry out individual functions

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Molecules

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Make up all cellular components; comprised of atoms

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reductionism

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Suggests that a human body can be understood by studying its simpler components

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Holman

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Suggests that there are properties possessed by the whole organism that are not apparent from the study of its parts, such as psychological factors

Treating the whole person not just individual symptoms

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What’s a way to illuminate experimenter bias?

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Double-blind method in which neither the physician not the patient know which treatment was received (only head scientist knows)

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Phenomenon

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An event

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Homeostasis

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The body’s ability to maintain relatively constant internal conditions and to return to those if upset

Not static or exact (an acceptable range)

Dynamic (changing) equilibrium- balanced change; feedback loops

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Feedback loops

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General name for these mechanisms which later the original changes that triggered them

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Extrinsic regulation

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Nervous/endocrine systems

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Hormones

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Chemical messengers produced in one part of the body having effect in another

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Supine

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Palms face forward (anterior)

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Prone

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Palms face rear (posterior)

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