Intro

Question 1

What is anatomy? 

Answer 1

The study of the body’s structures

Question 2

What is physiology?

Answer 2

The study of the body’s function.

Question 3

What are the levels of structural organization within the body?

Answer 3

• Chemical
• Cellular
• Tissue
• Organ system
• Organism

Question 4

What are the four basic types of tissue?

Answer 4

• Muscular tissue
• Nervous tissue
• Connective tissue
• Epithelial tissue

Question 5

What are the basic life processes of the body?

Answer 5

• Metabolism
• Responsiveness
• Movement
• Growth
• Differentiation
• Reproduction

Question 6

What is homeostasis?

Answer 6

The internal balance of the body.

Question 7

What is the fluid found inside cells?

Answer 7

Intercellular fluid (ICF)

Question 8

What is the fluid found out side of body cells?

Answer 8

Extra cellular fluid (ECF)

Question 9

What is the fluid that fills between the cells of tissue?

Answer 9

Interstitial fluid

Question 10

What are the three basic components of a feedback system?

Answer 10

• The Receptor
• Control Center
• Effector

Question 11

How does the body maintain control of homeostasis?

Answer 11

Nerve impulses ( The Brain)
Hormones (Endocrinology System)

Question 12

What are the two types of feedback systems?

Answer 12

Negative
Positive

Question 13

What is are some examples of an controlled condition?

Answer 13

Body temperature
Blood pressure
Glucose

Question 14

What is a receptor?

Answer 14

Body structure that monitor monitors changes in a controlled condition and sends input to the response system

Question 15

What is a negative feedback system?

Answer 15

A feedback system that reverses a change in a controlled condition.
* e.g blood pressure regulation

Question 16

What is a positive feedback system?

Answer 16

Strengthens or reinforces change, and one of the body’s controlled conditions.
* e.g. Labor contractions, blood clots

Question 17

What is Superior?

Answer 17

Towards the head, or the upper part of a structure

Question 18

What is inferior?

Answer 18

Away from the head, or the lower part of the structure.

Question 19

What is anterior?

Answer 19

Nearer or at the front of the body

Question 20

What is posterior?

Answer 20

Nearer, or to at back of the body.

Question 21

What is medial?

Answer 21

Nearer to the midline

Question 22

What is Ipsilateral?

Answer 22

On the same side of the body as another structure.

Question 23

What is contralateral?

Answer 23

On the opposite side of the body from another structure.

Question 24

What is proximal?

Answer 24

Nearer to the attachment of a limb to a trunk

Question 25

What is distal?

Answer 25

Farther from the attachment of the limb to the trunk.

Question 26

What is a sagittal plane?

Answer 26

A vertical plane that divides the body or organ into left and right sides.

Question 27

A plane that divides the body into equal left and right sides is known as what?

Answer 27

The median plane/midsagittal plane

Question 28

What plane divides the body into front and back portions?

Answer 28

Frontal or Coronal Plane

Question 29

What plane divides the body, or an organ into superior and inferior portions?

Answer 29

Transverse plane also known as a Cross sectional plane or horizontal plane

Question 30

What are body cavities?

Answer 30

Space that encloses internal organs.

Question 31

What is the yellow plane?

Answer 31

Frontal/Coronal plane

Question 32

What is the pink plane?

Answer 32

The Median plane

Question 33

What is the blue plane?

Answer 33

Sagittal plane