Intro & General Chemistry Flashcards
What are the five functions all living things perform?
1) Homeostasis
2) Growth
3) Reproduction
4) Movement
5) Metabolism
What are the levels of organisation and their order?
1) Molecular
2) Cellular
3) Tissue
4) Organ
5) Organ System
6) Organism
What is Homeostasis?
The existence of a stable internal environment maintained by the organism through physiological or behavioural regulation
What are the three actions of homeostasis?
1) Receptor sense environmental change
2) Contol centre receives information and determines response
3) Effecter reacts to information from control centre and causes specific response to the disturbance
What is Positive Feedback?
Effector that is activated reinforces the initial stimulus
What is Negative Feedback?
Effector that is activated opposes or eliminates the stimulus
If a person is laying dead on their back, they are referred to as being…?
Supine
If a persons decked it and fallen onto their belly, they’re referred to as being…?
Prone
Whats a fancy term for front or before? Hint - Tiny little red thing
Anterior
Whats a term for belly side?
Ventral
Whats a fancy term for the arse (behind/back)?
Posterior
Whats another term for the back?
Dorsal
Whats the term for the head?
Cranial/Cephalic
If someone is better than you, you’d say they are… (above/higher)
Superior (e.g. Superior Vena Cava)
What is the term for the coccyx, other than the word coccyx?
Caudal (e.g. Cauda Equina)
Whats a term for low or below?
Inferior (e.g. Inferior Vena Cava)
What means towards the midline/middle?
Medial (e.g. Otitis Media = Inflammation of Inner Ear)
What term is used to describe away from the midline/middle?
Lateral
What is the fancy anatomical term to describe something near to where its connected?
Proximal (e.g. NOF is proximal compared to the knee)
What is the fancy anatomical term to describe something thats away from where its attached?
Distal (e.g. Distal Pulse)
What is the anatomical term to describe something towards the surface?
Superficial (e.g. “You’re such a superficial b*tch enter name!”)
What is the anatomical term for something more internal or thats further from the surface?
Deep (e.g. Deep-fried Mars Bar makes the mars bar further from the surface)
What cavity encloses the brain?
Cranial
What cavity encloses the spinal cord?
Spinal (No sh*t Sherlock, clues in the name)
