Chapter 1 Organization Of The Human Body

Question 1

The body’s ability to detect and respond to changes in its internal or external environment

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Responsiveness

Question 2

The process whereby unspecialized cells become specialized cells

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Differentiation

Question 3

A cycle of events in which the status of a body condition is continually monitored, evaluated, changed, remonitored, reevaluated, and so on.

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Feedback system

Question 4

Includes motion of the whole body, individual organs, single cells, and even tiny organelles inside cells.

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Movement

Question 5

A subjective change in body functions that are not apparent to an observer, for example, headache or nausea

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Symptom

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Refers to either the formation of new cells for growth, repair or replacement, or the production of a new individual

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Reproduction

Question 7

Any disturbance of structure and/ or function

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Disorder

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The maintenance of relatively stable conditions

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Homeostasis

Question 9

The science that deals with the effects of drugs in the treatment of disease

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Pharmacology

Question 10

Normal process characterized by a progressive decline in the body’s ability to restore homeostasis

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Aging

Question 11

Any change from a state of health

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Disease

Question 12

study of the occurrence and distribution of diseases and disorders in human population

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Epidemiology

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distinguishing one disease from another or determining the nature of a disease from signs ad symptoms by inspection, palpation, laboratory tests, and other means

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Diagnosis

Question 14

all of the biochemical reactions that occur within an organism, including the synthetic reactions and decomposition reactions

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Metabolism

Question 15

the structure or study of structure of the body and the relation of its parts to each other

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Anatomy

Question 16

science that deals with the functions of an organism or its parts

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Physiology

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an increase in size due to an increase in the number of cells, the size of existing cells as internal components increase in size, or the size of intercellular substances

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Growth

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the science that deals with the nature, causes, and development of abnormal conditions and the structural and functional changes occur from disease process

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Pathology