PENN FOSTER ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Cranial - ✔✔Toward the head
Rostral - ✔✔Toward the tip of the nose
Median plane - ✔✔divided down the middle; split into right and left halves.
Aborad - ✔✔moving away from the mouth.
Lateral - ✔✔toward the side of the body way from the middle.
Based on your understanding of the term superficial, where would you expect the superficial
digital flexor tendon in a horse's leg to be found, relative to the deep digital flexor? - ✔✔It would be
closer to the skin than the deep digital flexor tendon
types of muscle tissue. - ✔✔skeletal, smooth, cardiac
general types of tissue. - ✔✔epithelial, muscular, connective, nervous.
Order from smallest to largest. (tissue, system, organ, cells.) - ✔✔cells, tissues, organs, systems
True or false? Homeostasis is the maintenance of balance in the body. - ✔✔true
Atom - ✔✔the smallest unit of an element
Ion - ✔✔An electrically charged atom or molecule
Molecule - ✔✔The smallest particle of a substance
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Cranial - ✔✔Toward the head
Rostral - ✔✔Toward the tip of the nose
Median plane - ✔✔divided down the middle; split into right and left halves.
Aborad - ✔✔moving away from the mouth.
Lateral - ✔✔toward the side of the body way from the middle.
Based on your understanding of the term superficial, where would you expect the superficial
digital flexor tendon in a horse's leg to be found, relative to the deep digital flexor? - ✔✔It would be
closer to the skin than the deep digital flexor tendon
types of muscle tissue. - ✔✔skeletal, smooth, cardiac
general types of tissue. - ✔✔epithelial, muscular, connective, nervous.
Order from smallest to largest. (tissue, system, organ, cells.) - ✔✔cells, tissues, organs, systems
True or false? Homeostasis is the maintenance of balance in the body. - ✔✔true
Atom - ✔✔the smallest unit of an element
Ion - ✔✔An electrically charged atom or molecule
Molecule - ✔✔The smallest particle of a substance
