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Chapers 1-3 Flashcards

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Inspection

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Looking at the body’s appearance

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Anatomy

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The study of form

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Palpation

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Feeling a structure with the hands

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Auscultation

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Listening to natural sounds

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Percussion

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Tapping on the body to look for abnormal resistance

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Cadaver dissection

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Cutting and separating tissues of a dead body

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Comparative anatomy

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The study of more than one species

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Gross anatomy

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Can be seen with the naked eye

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Histology

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Microscopic study of tissue

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Cytology

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Study of structure and function of cells

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Physiology

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The study of function

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Comparative physiology

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Study of how different species function

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Hippocrates

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Known as the father of medicine A Greek physician who established a code of ethics for physicians

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Galen

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Physician for Roman gladiators he wrote the most influential medical textbook for the ancient era

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Andreas Vesalius

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The first to publish accurate illustrations for teaching anatomy and the first Atlas of anatomy

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William Harvey

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First to realize the blood to circulate continuously

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Robert Hooke

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Improve the optics and invented several features of compound microscopes

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Matthias Schleidin & Theodore Schwann

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Scientists that concluded that all organisms are composed of cells

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Organism

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Single complete individual

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Organ system

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Group with unique collective function

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Organ

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Two or more tissues that work together to carry out a function

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Tissue

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Mass of similar cells that forms a discrete region of an organ and performs a specific function

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Cell

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The smallest unit of an organism that carries out all the basic functions of life

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Organelle

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Structure in a cell that carries out individual functions

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Molecule

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A particle composed of Atoms

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Atom

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The smallest particle with unique chemical identities

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The book teaches what percent

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70

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Some people lack organs

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Or Have extra

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Situs inversus

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Organs of the thoracic and abdominal cavities are reversed between right and left

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Situs purversus

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A single organ occupies an atypical position

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Human Organization

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Exhibit a higher level of organization the nonliving things

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Human cellular composition

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Compartmentalized into one or more cells

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Metabolism

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The sum of all internal chemical change

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Anabolism

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Molecules are synthesized

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Catabolism

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Molecules are broken down

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Excretion

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The separation of wastes from the tissues and their elimination from the body

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