Term Final Flashcards

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Consists of bones, ligaments, and cartilages that support and move body parts

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Skeletal system

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The skin and its accessory structures

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Integumentary system

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Muscles providing forces to move body parts, maintain posture, and are the main source of body heat

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Muscular system

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The brain, spinal cord, nerves, and sense organs; communicate through nerve impulses

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Nervous system

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Includes all the glands that secrete chemical messengers called hormones

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Endocrine system

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The heart, arteries, veins, capillaries, and blood; transports substances throughout the internal environment

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Cardiovascular system

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Composed of lymphatic vessels, lymph fluid, lymph nodes, thymus, and spleen; transports substances throughout the internal environment

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Lymphatic system

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Mouth, teeth, tongue, salivary glands, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, small intestine, and large intestine; absorbs nutrients and oxygen and excrete various wastes

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Digestive system

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Nasal cavity, pharynx, trachea, and lungs that move air in and out and exchange gases between blood and air

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Respiratory system

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Consists of the kidneys, uteters, urinary bladder, and urethra; purpose in maintaining water and electrolyte concentrations

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Urinary system

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Contains either the female uterus and vagina or the male testes and penis; produces a whole new organisms like itself

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Reproductive system

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A component of a homeostatic mechanism that establishes the range that is optimal for a particular measurement

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Set point

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Muscles or glands that effect changes in the body

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Effectors

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Specialized cells that provide information about the environment

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Receptors

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A state of balance in which the body’s internal environment remains in the normal range

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Homeostasis

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The fluid surrounding body cells

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Internal environment

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A mechanism activated by an imbalance that corrects the imbalance

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Negative feedback

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Pertaining to the head, neck, and trunk

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Axial

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Pertaining to upper or lower limbs

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Appendicular

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Tissues and organs of the thoracic cavity that form a septum between the lungs

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Mediastinum

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Organs in body cavities, especially in the abdomen

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Viscera

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Serous membranes that enclose the lungs and line the chest wall

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Pleural membranes

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The membrane that surrounds the heart

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Pericardial membranes

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Lines the cavity of the abdomen

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Peritoneal membrane

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Organelles housing enzymes that catalyze the reactions of aerobic respiration
Mitochondria
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Cellular organelles enclosed by double-layered selective membranes that contain the genetic materials
Nucleus
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Small structures in the cell nucleus that contains RNA and proteins
Nucleolus
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A network of membranes found throughout the cell; synthesizes and packages proteins
Rough ER
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And organelle that prepares and modifies cellular products for secretion
Golgi apparatus
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Organelle composed of RNA and protein that is a structural support for protein synthesis and includes RNA molecules that function as enzymes
Ribosome
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A cells framework of protein filaments and tubules
Cytoskeleton
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A network of membranes functioning in lipid metabolism
Smooth ER
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A cellular organelle built of microtubules that organizes the mitotic spindle
Centrioles
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Membranous cytoplasmic sacs formed by unfoldings of the cell membrane
Vesicles
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Membranous sacs abundant in kidney and liver cells that contain enzymes that catalyze a variety of biochemical reactions
Peroxisomes
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Motile tail-like cellular structure such as on a sperm cell
Flagella
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Organelle that contains digestive enzymes
Lysosomes
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A solution with the same osmotic pressure as the solution with which it is compared
Isotonic
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A solution with a greater osmotic pressure than the solution with which it is compared
Hypertonic
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A solution with a lower osmotic pressure than the solution with which it is compared
Hypotonic
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Random movement of molecules from a region of higher concentration toward one of lower concentration
Diffusion
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Diffusion in which carrier molecules transport substances across membranes from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration
Facilitated diffusion
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Movement of water through a semipermeable membrane from an area of greater water concentration to an area of lesser water concentration
Osmosis
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Fluid accumulation within tissue spaces
Edema
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Process that requires energy to move a substance across a cell membrane, usually against the concentration gradient
Active transport
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Process by which a cell membrane envelops a substance and draws it into the cell and a vesicle
Endocytosis
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Stage of mitosis when chromosomes become visible
Prophase
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Stage of mitosis when chromosomes align in the middle of this cell
Metaphase
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Stage in mitosis when duplicate chromosomes move to opposite poles of cell
Anaphase
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Stage in mitosis when newly formed cell separate
Telophase
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Programmed cell death
Apoptosis
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Process by which a cell engulfs droplets of fluid from its surroundings
Pinocytosis
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A process that moves specific kinds of particles into the cell
Receptor-Mediated Endocytosis
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Process by which a cell engulfs and digests solids
Phagocytosis
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And undifferentiated cell that can divide to two daughter stem cells, or a stem cell and a progenitor
Stem cells
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cell specialization
Differentiation
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A daughter cell of a stem cell that is partially specialized
Progenitor cells
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Vinegar cup
Acetabul-
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Axis
Ax-
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Bud
-Blast
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Wrist
Carp-
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Break
Clast-
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Knob
Condyle
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A crow's beak
Corac
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Sieve
Cribr-
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Pit
Fov-
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Joint socket
Glen-
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Among, between
Inter-
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Inside
Intra-
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Passage
Meat-
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Tooth
Odont-
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Make, produce
Poie-
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Something inserted
Calat-
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Crest
Crist-