Quiz 1 Material

Question 0

What is physiology?

Answer 0

Involves the study of the functioning of living organisms and their parts.

Question 1

What is the definition of anatomy?

Answer 1

The study of the structures of an organism and the relationship of the organism to its parts.

It is descriptive.

Question 2

What is the definition of anatomical position?

Answer 2

It is a reference point used for descriptive purposes. The person is facing the observer, looking forward, and is erect. Palms and feet also forward and arms down to the side.

Question 3

Biped

Answer 3

An animal that walks on two feet.

Question 4

Quadruped

Answer 4

An animal that walks on four feet.

Question 5

Anterior

Answer 5

Towards the front of the body or toward the nose in quadrupeds.

Question 6

Posterior

Answer 6

Towards the back of the body or the tail in quadrupeds.

Question 7

Ventral

Answer 7

Towards the belly and is synonymous in bipeds with the anterior position.

Question 8

Dorsal

Answer 8

Towards the backbone, like posterior position.

Question 9

Superficial

Answer 9

Towards the surface of the body.

Question 10

Deep

Answer 10

Away from the surface of the body.

Question 11

Superior

Answer 11

Above, upper

Question 12

Inferior

Answer 12

Below or lower

Question 13

Rostral

Answer 13

Towards the head (beak)

Question 14

Caudal

Answer 14

Towards the tail (end of spinal cord)

Question 15

External

Answer 15

Towards the outer surface of the body. Used to describe cavities and walls.

Question 16

Internal

Answer 16

Towards the inner surface of the body. Describes body cavities and walls.

Question 17

Medial

Answer 17

Towards the midline.

Question 18

Lateral

Answer 18

Away from the midline.

Question 19

Proximal

Answer 19

Towards the body or root of the extremity.

Question 20

Distal

Answer 20

Away from the root of the body.

Question 21

Sagittal plane

Answer 21

Vertical cut that divides the body into right and left halves.

Question 22

Frontal/Coronal plane

Answer 22

Vertical plane that cuts body into front/back halves.

Question 23

Horizontal plane

Answer 23

Parallel to the floor and divides the body into upper and lower halves.

Question 24

What is a neuron?

Answer 24

The basic structural and functional unit of the nervous system. It transmits messages and neural impulses throughout the nervous system.

Question 25

What are dendrites?

Answer 25

Process of the cell that collects and receives info/impulses from other cells and transmits impulses toward the cell body by way of electrical disturbances. Dendrites are typically short and highly branched.

Question 26

What is 'chaos'?

Answer 26

Electrical energy or billions of impulses.

Question 27

Dendritic spines

Answer 27

Highly branched dendrites which can absorb a greater amount of impulses and are not covered.

Question 28

Which type of neurons are highly branched?

Answer 28

Motor neurons bc they need impulses to be not interrupted.

Question 29

Axons

Answer 29

Typically long, thin processes that transmit impulses away from the cell body.