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Chapter 2- The Body As A Whole Flashcards

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1
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Cartilage

A

Tissue attached to the bones at joints

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Larynx

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Voice box

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Trachea

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Windpipe

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Pharynx

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Throat

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Uterus

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Womb

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RUQ

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Right upper quadrant

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LUQ

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Left upper quadrant

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RLQ

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Right lower quadrant

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LLQ

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Left lower quadrant

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Cervical

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Neck

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Thoracic

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Chest

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Lumbar

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Waist

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Sacral

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Sacrum

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Coccygeal

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Tailbone

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Vertebra

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Single backbone

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Vertebrae

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Backbones

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Spinal column

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Bone tissue

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Spinal cord

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Nervous tissue

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Disc

A

Pad of cartilage between vertebrae

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Ventral

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Front side of the body

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Dorsal

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Back side of the body

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Deep

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Away from the surface

Ex: stab wound

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Superficial

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On the surface

Ex: scratch

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Proximal

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Near the attachment point

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Distal

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far from attachment point

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Inferior

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Below another structure

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Superior

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Above another structure

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Medial

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Pertaining to the middle

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Lateral

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Side

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Supine

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Lying on your back

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Prone

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Lying on your belly

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Abdomin/o

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Abdomen

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Audip/o

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fat

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Anter/o

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Front

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Cervic/o

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Neck or uterus

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Chondr/o

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Cartilage

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Chrom/o

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Color

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Coccy/o

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Coccyx

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Crani/o

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Skull

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Dist/o

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Far, distant

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Dors/o

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Back portion of the body

42
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Hist/o

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Tissue

43
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ili/o

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Upper pelvic

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Inguin/o

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Groin

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Kary/o

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Nucleus

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Later/o

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Side

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Lumb/o

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Lower back

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Medi/o

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Middle

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Neclu/o

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Nucleus

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Pelv/o

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Pelvis

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Spin/o

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Spine

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Proxim/o

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Nearest

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Thel/o

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Nipple

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Thorac/o

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Chest

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Trache/o

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Chest

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Umbilic/o

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Umbilical

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Ventr/o

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Belly side

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Viscer/o

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Internal organs

59
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Ana

A

Up

60
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Cata-

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Down

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Inter

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Between

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Intra

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Within

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Meta

A

Change

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Eal
iac
ior

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Pertaining to

65
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-ism

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Condition

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