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Anatomy - ANSWER ✔✔- The study of body structure
Physiology - ANSWER ✔✔- The study of body function
Nervous system - ANSWER ✔✔- Brain, spinal cord, nerves, sense organs.
Controls & coordinates the body.
Endocrine system - ANSWER ✔✔- Produce hormones, regulate growth, nutrient
utilization, & reproduction.
Includes thyroid, pituitary, and adrenal glands.
Cardiovascular system - ANSWER ✔✔- Heart and blood vessels.
Pumps blood to all body tissues, bringing nutrients and necessary substances.
Skeletal system - ANSWER ✔✔- System of 206 bones and the joints between
them.
Body's basic framework.
Muscular System - ANSWER ✔✔- Attached to bones.
Produce movement of skeletal system, give the body structure, protect organs,
maintain posture.
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Organ System - ANSWER ✔✔- A group of organs that work together in
performing vital body functions.
Integumentary System - ANSWER ✔✔- The skin and its associated structures
(hair, nails, sweat & oil glands).
Protects from injury and infection.
Tissues - ANSWER ✔✔- Specialized groups of cells.
Organs - ANSWER ✔✔- Tissues that organized together to preform the same
function.
Homeostasis - ANSWER ✔✔- State of internal balance or constancy
regulated variable - ANSWER ✔✔- The variable that the system senses and tries
to keep stable. Body temp, BP, blood gas concentration, volume and composition
of fluids.
negative feedback - ANSWER ✔✔- A primary mechanism of homeostasis.
Keeps regulated variables in a normal range by reversing the upward/downward
shift.
-sensor, control center, effector
Digestive System - ANSWER ✔✔- All organs that are involved with taking in
nutrients and converting them into a form that cells can use & absorb.
Mouth, esophagus, stomach, sm & lg intestines, gallbladder, pancreas.