Chapter 1 Organization Of The Human Body Flashcards
The body’s ability to detect and respond to changes in its internal or external environment
Responsiveness
The process whereby unspecialized cells become specialized cells
Differentiation
A cycle of events in which the status of a body condition is continually monitored, evaluated, changed, remonitored, reevaluated, and so on.
Feedback system
Includes motion of the whole body, individual organs, single cells, and even tiny organelles inside cells.
Movement
A subjective change in body functions that are not apparent to an observer, for example, headache or nausea
Symptom
Refers to either the formation of new cells for growth, repair or replacement, or the production of a new individual
Reproduction
Any disturbance of structure and/ or function
Disorder
The maintenance of relatively stable conditions
Homeostasis
The science that deals with the effects of drugs in the treatment of disease
Pharmacology
Normal process characterized by a progressive decline in the body’s ability to restore homeostasis
Aging
Any change from a state of health
Disease
study of the occurrence and distribution of diseases and disorders in human population
Epidemiology
distinguishing one disease from another or determining the nature of a disease from signs ad symptoms by inspection, palpation, laboratory tests, and other means
Diagnosis
all of the biochemical reactions that occur within an organism, including the synthetic reactions and decomposition reactions
Metabolism
the structure or study of structure of the body and the relation of its parts to each other
Anatomy