Midterm

Question 1

What is the branch of science dealing with the form and structure of body parts?

Answer 1

Anatomy

Question 2

What is the study of body functions?

Answer 2

Physiology

Question 3

What is a group of cells?

Answer 3

Tissue

Question 4

What is a structure consisting of a group of tissues with a specialized function?

Answer 4

Organ

Question 5

What contains the skin and its various accessory structures such as hair, fingernails, sensory receptors, and glands?

Answer 5

Integumentary system

Question 6

What provides the body’s support structure, gives your body its shape, allows movement, makes blood cells, provides protection for your organs and stores minerals?

Answer 6

Skeletal system

Question 7

What is responsible for providing strength, keeping up balance, maintaining posture, allowing movement, and producing heat?

Answer 7

Muscular system

Question 8

The pigmented compound in muscle tissue that stores oxygen; causes muscles to look reddish-brown

Answer 8

Myoglobin

Question 9

cytoplasm of striated muscle cell

Answer 9

Sarcoplasm

Question 10

structural and functional unit of a myofibril

Answer 10

Sarcomere

Question 11

type of neurotransmitter; biochemical that is secreted into the synaptic cleft (a gap) at the axon ends of neurons; helps make muscles contract

Answer 11

Acetylcholine

Question 12

amount of oxygen required following physical exercise to react accumulated lactic acid to form glucose

Answer 12

Oxygen debt

Question 13

movement increasing the angle between parts at a joint

Answer 13

Extension

Question 14

bending at a joint that decreases the angle between bones

Answer 14

Flexion

Question 15

movement of body away from midline

Answer 15

Abduction

Question 16

movement of body toward the midline

Answer 16

Adduction

Question 17

stable internal environment; dynamic state in which the body’s internal environment is maintained in the normal range

Answer 17

Homeostasis

Question 18

What type of muscle in voluntary and multinucleated. It is composed of muscular, nervous, vascular, and connective tissues. Cells up to 30 cm long, 1 mm wide

Answer 18

Skeletal muscle

Question 19

What type of muscle is involuntary, uni- nuclear, has slow but prolonged contractions, no striations, and elongated spindle but shorter than skeletal muscle.

Answer 19

Smooth muscle

Question 20

Which type of smooth muscle has: fibers not sheets, not organized; ex. iris + blood vessels

Answer 20

Multi-unit smooth

Question 21

Which type of smooth muscle: in sheets, can cause rhythmic wave-like contractions (peristalsis); ex. in walls of hollow organs like stomach, intestines, urinary bladder, and uterus

Answer 21

Visceral smooth

Question 22

Which type of muscle is: Involuntary
Only in heart
Uni- nuclear
Cells form branching interlacing network
Sarcoplasmic reticulum poorly developed; many mitochondria provide long, slow contractions

Answer 22

Cardiac muscle

Question 23

What serves as an aid for estimating the extent of the damage that a burn caused? Human body is subdivided into regions, and it is important for planning to replace body fluids and electrolytes lost from damaged tissues, also for covering burned area with skin or skin substitutes.

Answer 23

Rule of nines (Each region represents 9% or a multiple of 9% of the total skin area)

Question 24

What type of tissue makes up the skin?

Answer 24

Stratified squamous epithelium

Question 25

What is the function of the skin?

Answer 25

Protective covering, maintains homeostasis, retards water loss, regulates body temperature, houses sensory receptors, synthesizes chemicals, excretes small amounts of waste

Question 26

What are some smooth muscle examples?

Answer 26

Iris, blood vessels, walls of hollow organs: stomach, intestines, urinary bladder, uterus

Question 27

Which gland secretes their products into ducts that open onto surfaces like the skin or lining of digestive tract

Answer 27

Exocrine glands

Question 28

Which gland is a sweat gland that maintains body temperature; respond to temperature; can produce from emotional stress

Answer 28

Eccrine gland

Question 29

Which gland secretes sebum?

Answer 29

Sebaceous gland

Question 30

binds two or more bones at a joint

Answer 30

Ligament

Question 31

connects a muscle to a bone

Answer 31

Tendon

Question 32

What is the function of water in the body?

Answer 32

Essential to bodily functions; regulate body temperature, lubricate and cushion joints, protect your spinal cord and other sensitive tissues, get rid of wastes through urination, perspiration, and bowel movements

Question 33

What is a cut across the structure

Answer 33

Cross

Question 34

What is a lengthwise cut?

Answer 34

Longitudinal

Question 35

divides the body into upper and lower halves (superior + inferior portions)

Answer 35

Transverse

Question 36

longitudinal plane dividing the body (head, torso, limbs) or its parts into front and back halves or parts (anterior + posterior portions)

Answer 36

Frontal

Question 37

longitudinal plane dividing the head and torso into left and right parts, not halves

Answer 37

Saggital

Question 38

longest muscle in human body

Answer 38

Sartorius

Question 39

largest muscle in human body

Answer 39

Gluteus Maximus

Question 40

What is the order of muscle terms from largest to smallest?

Answer 40

Muscle, fiber bundle (fascicle), muscle cell (fiber), myofibril

Question 41

What type of tissue provides protection, secretion, absorption, and excretion

Answer 41

Epithelial

Question 42

What type of tissue is avascular(lack blood vessels), readily divide; cells are tightly packed

Answer 42

Epithelial tissue

Question 43

What type of tissue bind, support, protect, serve as frameworks, fill spaces, store fat, produce blood cells, protect against infections, and help repair tissue damage

Answer 43

Connective tissue

Question 44

What tutor if tissue is mainly good blood supply; cells are farther apart than epithelial cells, have abundance of ECM

Answer 44

Connective tissue

Question 45

What type of tissue protects, insulates, stores fat and energy, cushions joints and some organs (like kidneys)

Answer 45

Adipose tissue

Question 46

What type of tissue is made of adipocytes that store droplets of fat; beneath the skin

Answer 46

Adipose tissue

Question 47

What type of tissue Supports, protects parts in cranial and thoracic cavities, provides framework, attachment for muscles

Answer 47

Skeletal tissue

Question 48

What type of tissue is made of mineral salts (calcium phosphate, and calcium carbonate), collagen fibers, osteocytes

Answer 48

Skeletal tissue

Question 49

What type of tissue aids in movement

Answer 49

Muscle tissue

Question 50

What type of tissue is able to contract in response to specific stimuli

Answer 50

Muscle tissue