Unit 1 Lab Flashcards
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Plane that divides body into right and left portions?
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Sagittal (or lateral)
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Plane that divides body into superior and inferior portions?
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Transverse (or horizontal)
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Plane that divides body into anterior and posterior portions?
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Coronal (or frontal)
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Plane that divides the body into unequal portions of left and right?
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parasagittal
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Plane that divides the body into equal portions of left and right?
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midsagittal
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Imaginary line drawn down the center of the body, dividing into right and left halves
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Midline
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Directional term used to refer to closer to head
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superior (cranial)
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Directional term used to refer to something closer to feet
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inferior (caudal)
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Directional term used to refer to something towards the front
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anterior (ventral)
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Directional term used to refer to something closer to the back
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posterior (dorsal)
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Directional term used to refer to something closer to the midline of the body
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Medial
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Directional term used to refer to something further from the midline
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lateral
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Directional term used to refer to something closer to the trunk or point of origin
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Proximal
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Directional term used to refer to something further away from the trunk or point of origin
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Distal
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Body cavity containing just the spine
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spinal cavity
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Body cavity containing the brain and spine
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Dorsal cavity
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Body cavity containing heart, lungs, trachea, and esophagus
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Thoracic cavity
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What membrane lines most of the organs within the abdominal cavity?
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visceral peritoneum
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Directional term used to refer to something near the surface
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Superficial
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Directional term used to refer to something further away from the surface
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deep
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What is the name of the membrane lining the organ within the pleural cavity?
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visceral pleura
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What is the name of the membrane lining the walls of the pleural cavity?
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parietal pleura
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What is the name of the membrane lining the walls of the pericardial cavity?
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parietal pericardium
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Body cavity containing most of the gastrointestinal tract, kidneys, and adrenal glands
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Abdominal cavity
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Body cavity containing urogenital system and the rectum
Pelvic cavity
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Body cavity that contains the brain
Cranial cavity
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Body cavity containing heart, lungs, stomach, and urinary bladder
Ventral
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What are the subdivisions of the dorsal cavity?
Cranial and spinal
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What are the subdivisions of the ventral cavity?
Thoracic, abdominal, and pelvic
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The medical term for forehead is
frontal
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The medical term for the skull is
cranial (cranium)
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The medical term for the face is
facies (facial)
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The medical term for the nose is
Nasus (nasal)
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The medical term for the eye is
Oculus (orbital or ocular)
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The medical term for the cheek is
Bucca (buccal)
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The medical term for the ear is
otic
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The medical term for the neck is
Cervicis (cervical)
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The medical term for the mouth is
Oris (oral)
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The medical term for the chin is
Mentin (mental)
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The medical term for the armpit is
Axilla (axillary)
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The medical term for the upper arm is
brachium (brachial)
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The medical term for the front of the elbow is
Antecubitis (antecubital)
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The medical term for the forearm is
antebrachium (antebrachial)
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The medical term for the wrist is
carpus (carpal)
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The medical term for the thumb is
pollex
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The medical term for the palm is
palma (palmar)
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The medical term for the fingers is
digits (phalanges)
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The medical term for the chest is
thoric or thorax (thoracic)
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The medical term for the breast is
mamma (mammary)
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The medical term for the stomach is
abdomen (abdominal)
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The medical term for the navel is
umbilicus (umbilical)
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The medical term for the hip is
coxal
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The medical term for the pelvis is
pelvic
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The medical term for the groin is
inguen (inguinal)
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The medical term for the pubis is
pubic
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The medical term for the thigh is
femur (femoral)
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The medical term for the kneecap is
patella (patellar)
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The medical term for the shin/lower leg is
crus (crural)
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The medical term for the ankle is
Tarsus (tarsal)
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The medical term for the toes is
digits (phalanges)
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The medical term for the foot is
pedal
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The medical term for the head is
cephalon (cephalic)
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The medical term for the shoulder is
acromial
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The medical term for the back is
dorsum (dorsal)
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The medical term for the back of the elbow is
olecranon (olecranal)
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The medical term for the loin is
lumbus (lumbar)
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The medical term for the sacrum is
sacral
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The medical term for the hand is
manus (manual)
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The medical term for the butt is
gluteus (gluteal)
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The medical term for the back of the knee is
popliteus (popliteal)
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The medical term for the calf is
sura (sural)
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The medical term for heel of the foot is
calcaneus (calacaneal)
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The medical term for sole of the foot is
planta (plantar)
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The study of tissues is known as
histology
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what are the 4 primary types of tissues?
Epithelial, Connective, Muscular, and Nervous
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What type of primary tissue is defined as "sheets of cells that line body surfaces, either external or internal"?
Epithelial tissue
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What type of primary tissue is defined as "support tissues where a specific cell type is embedded within a non-living (acellular) matrix"?
Connective tissue
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What type of primary tissue is defined as "excitable tissues that are capable of contraction"?
Muscular tissue
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What type of primary tissue is defined as "excitable tissues that are capable of transferring and integrating signals from one part of the body to another"?
Nervous tissue
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What characteristics define epithelial tissue?
Number of layers and individual cell shape
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Where are some places simple squamous epithelium can be found?
Surfaces where diffusion is important
Ex. Kidney glomeruli, alveoli of lungs, endothelial lining of blood vessels and heart, and serosae
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Where are some places simple cuboidal epithelium can be found?
Surfaces were absorption and secretion are necessary
Ex. Kidney tubules, ducts and secretory portions of small glands, ovary surfaces
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Where are some places simple columnar epithelium can be found?
Surfaces where absorption and extensive secretion are necessary
Ex. Digestive tract, gall bladder, ducts of some glands, small bronchi, uterine tubes
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What cells secret mucus through vesicles and are found in columnar cells?
Goblet cells
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Where is stratified epithelial tissue likely to be found?
Where underlying tissues must be protected
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What is the matrix of connective tissues made of?
Ground substance and fibers
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What is ground substance made of?
interstitial fluid and globular proteins
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What are the three types of fibers?
Collagen, elastin, and reticulin
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What is the most abundant connective tissue fiber?
Collagen
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What fiber protein has the appearance of long, unbranched strands?
Collagen
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What fiber protein has the appearance of long, moderately branched strands?
Elastin
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What type of fiber protein is found in tissues that must deform, but must also resume their resting shape once force is removed?
Elastin
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What type of fiber protein is found in tissues that bend readily when deformed perpendicular to the long axis of the molecule?
Collagen
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What type of fiber protien is found in tissues where a network of overlapping fibers is necessary?
Reticulin
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What fiber protein has the appearance of fine, heavily-branched strands?
Reticulin
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What fiber protein creates a sieve-like net structure to trap debris or to support other tissues where strength is unecessary?
Reticulin
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What are the 4 types of connective tissue?
Connective tissue proper, Cartilage, Bone, and Blood
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What characteristics can be used to classify connective tissue?
Arrangement of protein fibers
Cell type
Matrix composition
Protein fiber type
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What tissues are classified as loose connective?
Areolar connective tissue
Adipose connective tissue
Reticular connective tissue
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What tissues are classified as dense connective?
Dense regular connective tissue
Dense irregular connective tissue
Elastic connective tissue
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What connective tissue has a loose arrangement of collagen and elastin fibers in a gel-like matrix dominated by fibroblasts?
Areolar connective tissue
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What connective tissue has a matrix similar to sarse areolar, dominated by adipocytes (fat cells)?
Adipose connective tissue
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What connective tissue has loose reticulin fibers dominated by lymphocytes?
Reticular connective tissue
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What connective tissue is densely packed with parallel bundles of collagen, dominated by fibroblasts?
Dense regular connective tissue
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What connective tissue is irregularly arranged with bundles of collagen, and is populated primarrily by fibroblasts?
Dense irregular connective tissue
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What connective tissue is densely packed, with a large amount of elastin fibers and dominated by fibroblasts?
Elastic connective tissue
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What tissue is composed of a firm substance that is largely avascular and without nerves?
Cartilage
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What type of tissue is dominated by chondrocytes which lie in cavities called lacunae?
Cartilage
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What are the three types of cartilage?
Hyaline cartilage
Elastic cartilage
Fibrous cartilage
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What connective tissue is made of hard, calcified matrix built upon dense, parallel bundles of collagen fibers and is populated primarily by osteocytes?
Bone
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What connective tissue has a liquid matrix, with few protein fibers under normal conditions?
Blood
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What connective tissue is dominated by erythrocytes and leucocytes?
Blood
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What connective tissue has a gel-like ground substance and fibers, dominated by mesenchymal cells?
Mesenchyme
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What are two important properties about muscular tissue?
It is both excitable and contractile
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What is nervous tissue made of?
Neurons and neuroglial cells
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What muscle tissue is short, with spindle-shaped cells, and non-striated in appearance?
Smooth muscle tissue
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What muscle tissue is both neurogenic and myogenic contractible?
smooth muscle
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What tissue has short, branched cells joined by intercalated discs, striated in appearance?
Cardiac muscle tissue
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What muscle tissue is involuntary and myogenic contraction?
Cardiac muscle tissue
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What tissue contains long, unbranched multinucleated cells and is striated in appearance?
skeletal muscle tissue
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What muscle tissue has voluntary and neurogenic contraction?
skeletal muscle tissue
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What does the integument system consist of?
The skin and the accessory structures such as hair, nails, and sweat glands
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What type of skin contains hair follicles?
Thin skin
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What makes up the hypodermis?
Adipose or areolar connective tissue
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What type of tissue makes up the epidermis?
stratified squamous epithelium
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What type of tissue makes up the dermis?
Dense irregular connective tissue
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Where do most of the accessory structures lie within the skin?
the dermis
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Where are blood vessels and nervous structures located within the skin?
the dermis
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What is the most abundant cell type that makes up the epidermis?
keratinocytes
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What cell type produces a fibrous, water-resistant protein called keratin, and is linked together by desmosomes into layers
Keratinocytes
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What produces the melanin pigment granules and are responsible for the coloration of the skin?
Melanocytes
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What cells are macrophages that are involved in immunity?
Langerhans' cells
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What cells are touch receptor cells that reside in the deepest layer of the epidermis?
Merkel cells
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What are the four/five layers of the epidermis from top to bottom?
Stratum Corneum
Stratum Lucidum (only in thick skin)
Stratum Granulosum
Stratum Spinosum
Stratum Basale
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What layer of the epidermis do Langerhans' cells reside in?
Stratum spinosum
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What layer of the epidermis do Merkel cells reside in?
Stratum Basale
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What layer of the epidermis do melanocytes reside in?
Stratum Basale
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What layer of the epidermis contains most of the dividing cells?
Stratum Basale
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What layer of the epidermis contains a few dividing cells and begin producing intermediate filaments or pre-keratin protein?
Stratum Spinosum
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What layer of the epidermis contain cells that are flattened but still living and contain keratin granules?
Stratum Granulosum
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What layer of the epidermis contains a thin, translucent layer of dead cells and is only found in thick skin?
Stratum Lucidum
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What layer of the epidermis consists of 20 to 30 layers of dead, fully keratinized cells?
Stratum Corneum
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What are the two layers of the dermis?
Superficial papillary layer
Deep reticular layer
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Which layer of the dermis is composed of areolar connective tissue and forms the dermal papillae?
Superficial papillary layer
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Which layer of the dermis is composed of dense irregular connective tissue and is the thicker layer of the dermis?
Deeper reticular layer
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What dermis layer forms a wavy boundary between the dermis and the stratum basale of the epidermis, containing an abundance of capillaries, along with free nerve ending s and Meissner's touch corpuscles?
Dermal Papillae
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What dermis layer contains many arteries, veins, nerves, sweat glands, sebaceous glands, hair follices, and Pacinian touch corpuscles, along with provide structural strength to the integument?
Reticular layer
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Where are all accessory structures developed (not reside).
Epidermis
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What is the name of the cell that resides within the matrix of bone tissues?
Osteocytes
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What is the name of the cell that resides within the matrix of cartilage tissues?
Chondrocytes
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What are the cell junctions between cardiac muscle cells called?
intercalated discs
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What structure produces a shaft of keratinized cells that extend from the surface of the skin?
hair follice
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What body part are keratinized derivatives of the epidermis?
Nails
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What is the name of the nail matrix that is visible beneath the body of the nail?
Lunule
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What is the name of the portion of the hair enclosed by the follicle?
Hair root
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What is the name of the portion of hair that extends from the surface of the epidermis?
Shaft
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What is the inner most layer of a hair shaft?
Hair bulb
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What portion of the hair is dermal tissue that extends into the base of the hair root and provides nutrition to the hair matrix?
hair papilla
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Which part of the hair is a region of dividing cells that provide new growth?
Hair matrix
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Within the matrix, _____ secretes melanin granules into the cortex of the hair and determines its color
Melanocytes
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What parts form the shaft once the hair emerges?
Cortex
Medulla
Cuticle
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What is the name of the smooth muscle that is attached to the hair follicle and is responsible for raising the hair?
Arrector Pili
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What cytoskeletal elements are stable and resist mechanical forces acting on the cell?
intermediate filaments
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What membranous vesicles contain acid hydrolases and serve to digest worn-out organelles and foreign substances that enter the cell?
Lysozomes
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What are the spaces in which chondrocytes reside called?
Lacunae
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What are the primary functional cells of nervous tissue called?
neurons
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What structure produces a milky, protein- and lipid-rich secretion and is limited to the axillary and pubic regions?
Apocrine sweat glands
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What minute, finger-like projections of the cell membrane serve to increase the surface area of the cell for absorption?
microvilli
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What cytoskeletal element is primarily composed of tubulins and helps detemine the shape of the cell?
Microtubule
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What is the general term denoting a membrane that lines the organs within certain ventral body cavities?
visceral serosa
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The medical term for the back is
vertebral
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