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Chapter 1 Test Review Flashcards

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What is the body System that returns tissue fluid to the blood and produces immunity structure and agents?

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Lymphatic

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Several organs that work together to perform a function

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System

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Which body system regulates body activities through hormones?

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Endocrine System

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Which body system regulates body temperature, protects the body and detects sensations (touch, pressure, warmth,pain.)?

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Integumentary System

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Which body system supports and protects the body and provides a specific area for muscle attachment?

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Skeletal System

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Which body system participates in bringing about body movements and in maintaining posture and produces heat?

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Muscular System

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Which body system regulates body activities through nerve impulses and by detecting changes in the environment?

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Nervous System

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Which body system has the heart pump blood through blood vessels and the blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the cells?

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Cardiovascular System

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Which body system transfers oxygen from inhaled air to blood and carbon dioxide from blood to exhaled air,helps air flowing out of lungs?

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Respiratory System

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Which body system achieves physical and chemical breakdown of food, absorbs nutrients and eliminates solid wastes?

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Digestive System

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Which body system produces, stores, and eliminates urine, and eliminates wastes, regulates acidity of body fluid, also helps regulate red blood cell production.

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Urinary System

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Which body system produces gametes that unite to form a new organism?

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Reproductive System

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The sum of all chemical processes that occur in the body

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Metabolism

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What is the cranial cavity?

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Formed by cranial bones and contains the brain

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What is the vertebral cavity?

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Formed by vertebral column and contains the spinal cord and the beginning of the spinal nerves

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What is the thoracic cavity?

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Chest cavity including pleural and pericardial cavities and mediastinum

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What is the pleural cavity?

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Surrounding the lungs

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What is the pericardial cavity?

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Surrounds the heart

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What is the mediastinum?

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Central portion of thoracic cavity between the lungs, goes from the sternum to vertebral column and from the next to diaphragm, contains the heart, esophagus, trechea, and serval lage blood vessels

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What is the abdominopelvic cavity?

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It is subdivided into the abdominal and pelvic cavities.

20
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What is the abdominal cavity?

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

21
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What is the pelvic cavity?

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Contains urinary bladder, portions of the large intestines and internal organs of reproduction

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The name of the condition in which the internal body remains stable within certain physiologic limits?

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Homeostasis

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Name the science that deals with why and when and where diseases occur and how they are transmitted within a defined human population

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Epidemiology

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The change that a cell undergoes from an unspecialized to a specialized one is called?

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Differentiation

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Any time a region of the body is described such as directions and planes the assumption is made that the body is in what position?

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Anatomical

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Subjective changes in a person not observable from the outside such a stomachache or headache is called?

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Symptoms

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Part of a feedback system responsible for receiving output from the control center and producing a response that changes the controlled condition is called?

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Effector

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A group of tissues that function together to perform of a vital activity

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Organ

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The ability to detect and react the changes in the external or internal environment is called?

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Responsiveness

30
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A measurable observable changes like swelling or a rash is called?

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Signs

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The study of structure of the body and relationship between them is called what?

A

Anatomy

32
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Put the levels of organism in order from most complex to the simplest level.

A 
Organism       (Complex)
System 
Organ
Tissue
Cell
Chemical  (simplest)
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Superior

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Toward the upper part or the head end (cranial, cephalic)

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Inferior

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Away from the head end (caudal)

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Anterior

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Toward the front (ventral)

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Posterior

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Toward the back (dorsal)

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Medial

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Toward the midline

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Lateral

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Away from the midline

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Proximal

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Nearer to the point if attachment of limb to the trunk (extremities)

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Distal

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Farther from the point of attachment of a limb to the trunk (extremities)

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Superficial

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Toward or near the surface of the body

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Deep

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Away from the surface of the body

43
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What does geriatrics mean?

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The science that deals with the medical problems and care of elderly persons

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What does pathology mean?

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The science that deals with the nature, causes and development of abnormal conditions and the structural and functional changes that diseases produce

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What does pharmacology mean?

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The science that deals with the effects and use of drugs in the treatment of disease

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