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anatomical position - Answer To stand erect with arms at the sides and palms of the hands turned forward coronal (frontal) plane - Answer vertical division of the body into front (anterior) and back (posterior) portions transverse (horizontal) plane - Answer runs horizontally from right to left, dividing the body into superior and inferior parts sagittal plane - Answer divides body into left and right midsagittal plane - Answer divides the body into equa...

What is the major organs of the respiratory systems function? - Answer function primarily to provide oxygen to body tissues for cellular respiration, remove the waste product carbon dioxide, and help to maintain acid-base balance. Conducting zone of respiratory system involves what? Major functions? Structures? - Answer -includes the organs and structures not directly involved in gas exchange. -Conditions the air--> filters, warms and cleans the air -nose and nasal ...

The nervous system can be divided into two functional parts. What are they? - Answer the somatic nervous system and the autonomic nervous system. What does the somatic nervous system cause? - Answer The somatic nervous system causes voluntary contraction of skeletal muscles What does the autonomic nervous system control? - Answer The autonomic nervous system controls involuntary contraction of cardiac and smooth muscle, as well as glandular tissue. In the autonomic ner...

What are the components of blood? - Answer Erythrocytes (RBCs), Leukocytes, and Platelets What does plasma (the extracellular matrix) do for the blood? What does it do for the formed elements? - Answer It makes the blood unique among connective tissues because it is fluid. Plasma suspends the formed elements and enables them to circulate throughout the body within the cardiovascular system. What are erythrocytes (RBCs) responsible for? - Answer transport oxygen, and s...

Cell death - Answer apoptosis, necrosis abnormal proliferation - Answer neoplasia 4 types of tissue - Answer epithelial, connective, muscle, nervous epithelial tissue - Answer lines everybody surface/structure functions of epithelial tissue - Answer protection, secretion, sensation, selective permeability, simple diffusion, absorption and transcellular transport, surface parallel transport glandular epithelial tissue - Answer most glands derived...

Vertebraes are connected by what? How many bones make up the vertebral column? - Answer Intervertebral discs, 26 bones! Describe the vertebral column What does it protect? - Answer It is a flexible column that supports the head, neck, and body and allows for their movements. It also protects the spinal cord, which passes down the back through openings in the vertebrae. Describe regions of the vertebral column. - Answer C1-C7 T1-T12 L1-L5 Sacrum (made of five fused...

What two major forms of supportive connective tissue allow the body to maintain its posture and protect internal organs? - Answer Cartilage and bone! What cells are embedded within the cartilage matrix? What are the spaces that they occupy called? - Answer chondrocytes (cartilage cells- mature part of the cell), chondroblasts-builder of tissue. lacunae What is the perichondrium? What does it encapsulate? - Answer A layer of dense irregular connective tissue, encapsulates ...

How many bones does the vertebral column have? - Answer 26 How many individual vertebrae are there? - Answer 24 How many cervical vertebrae are there? - Answer 7 How many lumbar vertebrae are there? - Answer 5 How many thoracic vertebrae are there? - Answer 12 What are the other two inferior bones of the vertebral column? - Answer Sacrum and Coccyx cerevical vertebrae - Answer first set of vertebrae that are found in the neck region; sp...

Divisions of the Brain - Answer telencephalon, diencephalon, mesencephalon, metencephalon, myelencephalon Telencephalon - Answer cerebrum Diencephalon - Answer everything "thalamus"; hypothalamus, thalamus, epithalamus Mesencephalon - Answer midbrain Metencephalon - Answer pons and cerebellum Myelencephalon - Answer medulla oblongata; connection between spinal cord and end of the brain Grey Matter - Answer cell bodies, dendrites, ...

3 classes of bone markings - Answer articular surfaces & related features tendon and/or ligament attachments opening and depressions condyle - Answer large rounded articular surface part of articular surfaces & related features facet - Answer flat articular surface part of articular surfaces & related features head - Answer bony expansion carried on a narrow neck part of articular surfaces & related features neck - Answer narrowed region ...