BIO252 - Comprehensive Exam Study Guide: 244 Well Defined terms and questions with certified solutions 2024 update

BIO252 - Comprehensive Exam Study Guide: 244
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solutions 2024 update
Superior (cranial)
- ✔- above


Inferior (caudal)
- ✔- below


Medial
- ✔- toward the midline


Lateral
- ✔- away from the midline


Proximal
- ✔- Closer to the point of attachment


distal
- ✔- away from the point of attachment


anterior/ventral
- ✔- front

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posterior/dorsal
- ✔- back of body


Deep
- ✔- away from the surface


Superficial
- ✔- near the surface


midsagittal plane
- ✔- divides the body into equal right and left sides


parasagittal plane
- ✔- offset from the midline or midsagittal plane


frontal plane
- ✔- Divides the body into front and back portions.


transverse plane
- ✔- horizontal division of the body into upper and lower portions

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oblique plane
- ✔- passes through the body at an angle


Homeostasis
- ✔- a range of body mechanisms; maintain balance in the body


What two types of feedback does the body use to maintain homeostasis?
- ✔- positive and negative feedback


negative feedback
- ✔- A primary mechanism of homeostasis, whereby a change in a physiological
variable that is being monitored triggers a response that counteracts the initial
fluctuation; bring back to baseline


Ex: blood glucose/insulin


positive feedback
- ✔- Feedback that tends to magnify a process or increase its output.


Ex: childbirth


atoms consist of
- ✔- protons, neutrons, electrons