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anatomy - ✔✔study of structure or form
physiology - ✔✔study of function
levels of organization - ✔✔cell
tissue
organ
organ systems
organism
what are the characteristics of life? - ✔✔-organization
-cellular composition
-metabolism
-responsiveness and movement
-reproduction
-homeostasis
-development
-evolution
homeostasis - ✔✔the ability to maintain a stable internal environment
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,negative feedback - ✔✔the body senses a change and activates mechanisms that negate that change
positive feedback - ✔✔the body senses a change and activates mechanisms that will amplify that change
what are the components of the feedback loop? - ✔✔-receptor
-integrating center
-effector
frontal/coronal plane - ✔✔divides the body into anterior and posterior
sagittal plane - ✔✔divides body into left and right portions
midsagittal plane - ✔✔divides the body into equal left and right portions
transverse plane - ✔✔divides body into superior and inferior portions
ventral - ✔✔toward the front or belly
dorsal - ✔✔toward the back or spine
anterior - ✔✔toward the ventral (front) side
posterior - ✔✔toward the dorsal (back) side
cephalic - ✔✔toward the head/superior end
rostral - ✔✔toward the forehead/nose
caudal - ✔✔toward the tail/inferior end
superior - ✔✔above
inferior - ✔✔below
medial - ✔✔toward the median plane
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, lateral - ✔✔away from the medial plane
proximal - ✔✔closer to the point of attachment
distal - ✔✔away from the point of attachment
ipsilateral - ✔✔on the same side of the body
contralateral - ✔✔on opposite sides of the body
superficial - ✔✔closer to the surface of the body
deep - ✔✔farther from the body surface
what are the four quadrants? - ✔✔-RUQ
-RLQ
-LUQ
-LLQ
what are the nine regions of the abdomen? - ✔✔-right hypochondriac
-epigastric
-left hypochondriac
-right lumbar
-umbilical
-left lumbar
-right iliac
-hypogastric
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