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Mammalian Anatomy Flashcards

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Near to the head

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Anterior

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Back of body

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Dorsal

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From the side or sides

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Lateral

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Situated near to the center of the body or the point of attachment

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Proximal

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Surface or outside

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Superficial

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Refers to the mouth

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Buccal cavity

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Chest cavity; contains heart or lungs

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Thoracic cavity

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Below the diaphragm, contains stomach, intestines, etc.

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Abdominal cavity

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Divided into two main cavities, the thoracic and abdominal cavities

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Coelom

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Near to the rear or hind end

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Posterior

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Front of body

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Ventral

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Situated in the middle

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Medial

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Situated away from the center of the body or from the point of attachment

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Distal

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Away from the surface, or further into the body

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Deep

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How would you determine the sex of the pig if it was female?

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The urogenital opening located below the base of the tail

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What are present in both pigs?

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Mammary papillae

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Conduct blood from the heart and branch into smaller vessels

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Arteries

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Where is blood conducted through?

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Arterioles

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Forms network through the tissues of the body

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Capillaries

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Conducts blood to successively larger vessels

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Venules

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What is the inner most layer in the blood vessels?

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Simple squamous epithelium. Also known as endothelial cells.

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Lies outside the tunica interna. This layer contains muscle tissues (vascular smooth muscle) that are responsible for changing blood vessel diameter to adjust blood flow and pressure.

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Tunica media

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The outermost layer

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Tunic externa

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What does the tunic externa consist of?

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Connective tissue (collagen fibers) to protect the vessels and anchor them to surrounding tissues

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One of the three layers of the brain (outermost)

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Dura mater

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Cognitive skill

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Frontal lobe

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Sensory skills, knowing from left from right, reading, and understanding spacial relationships

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Parietal lobe

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Visual processing center

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Occipital lobe

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Interpretation, language, hearing, emotion, vision

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Temporal lobe

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Detect odor sends signals to the cerebral

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Olfactory bulbs

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What divides the brain from the left and right

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Corpus callosum

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Relay motor and sensory signals to the cerebral cortex

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Thalamus

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Controls certain metabolic processes and other activities of the nervous system

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Hypothalamus

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