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Chapter One - Introduction Flashcards

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The basic type of homeostatic control system

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Feedback; loop

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Many similar cells that act together to perform a common function

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Tissue

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Homeostatic control mechanisms are categorized as either _____ or _________ feedback loops

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Negative ; positive

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Negative feedback loops tend to __________ conditions

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Change / negate

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Positive feedback loops tend to __________ conditions

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Stimulatory

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Antecubital

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Front of elbow

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Umbilical

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Navel

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Changes and functions that occur during the early years are called

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Developmental process

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Changes and functions that occur after young adulthood are called

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Aging process

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Antebrachial

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Forearm

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The body’s continuous ability to respond to changes the environment and to maintain relative continuity the internal environment

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Homeostasis

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The regions frequently used by health professionals to locate pain of tumors divides the abdomen into four basic areas

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Planes

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A lengthwise plane running from front to back that divides the body into right and left

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Sagital planes

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A study if the functions of living organisms a d their parts

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Physiology

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An organizations of varying numbers and kinds of organs arranged together to perform a complex function

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System

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15
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The plane that divides superior from inferior

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Transverse

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16
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The dorsal cavity contains the components of the

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Nervous system

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Similar cells acting together to perform a common function exist at the ________ level of organization

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Tissue

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The dorsal body cavity is the anterior to the ventral body cavity describes the

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The anatomical position

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Carpal

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Wrist

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20
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Farthest from the point of origin

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Distal

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Digital / phalangeal

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Fingers

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Nearest to the point of origin it’s part

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Proximal

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Away from the midline

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Lateral

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Femoral

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Thigh

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Towards the midline of the body

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Medial

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Cural

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Leg

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Tarsal

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Ankle

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Divides the body into front and back

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Frontal plane

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Divides the body into right and left

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Sagital plane

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Frontal

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Forehead

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Orbital

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Eye

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Splits body into top and bottom

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Transverse plane

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Prone

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Face down

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Nasal

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Nose

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Zygomatic

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Upper cheek

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Buccal

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Cheek

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Ventral cavity?

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Thoratic

Abdominal

Dorsal

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Oral

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Mouth

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Dorsal Cavity

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Brain and spinal cord

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Axial

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Head, neck, torso, trunk

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Thoratic

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Chest

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Appendicular

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Upper and lower extremities

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The most complex units that make up the Body

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Systems

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A group of several different kinds of tissues arranged to performs
A special function

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Organ

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Denotes a living thing

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Organism

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Abdominal

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Abdomen

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Pelvic

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Pelvis

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The smallest living units of structure and function in the body

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Cell

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Inguinal

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Groin

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Pedal

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Foot

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Temporal

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Side of skul

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Anatomical position

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Body- face upward 
Arms- at sides
Feet- erect
Prone- face downward
Supine - forward
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Dorsal

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Back

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Inferior

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Below

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Olecranal

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Back of elbow

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Lumbar

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Loin

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Gluteal

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Buttock

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Medial

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Toward midline of the body

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Popliteal

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Back of the knee

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Plantar

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Sole of foot

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Superior

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Upper or above

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Cranial

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Skull

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Cervical

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Neck

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Cephalic

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Head

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Facial

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Face

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Supraclavicular

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Area above clavicle

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Antebrocheal

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Forearm

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Axillary

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Armpit

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Farthest from the point if origin of a body point

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Distal

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Ventral cavity includes

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Thoracic
Abdominal 
Pelvic 
Mediastinum
Pleural
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Dorsal cavity

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Cranial

Spinal

72
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Describes the relative consistency of the body’s internal environment

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Homeostasis

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Brachial

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Arm

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Cubical

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Elbow

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Toward the side of the body

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Lateral

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Mammary

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Breast

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Axillary

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Armpit

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Ventral

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Front (abdominal side)

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