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Ventral - Answer Toward the front or belly Dorsal - Answer Toward the back or spine Anterior - Answer Toward the ventral side Posterior - Answer Toward the dorsal side Superior - Answer Above Inferior - Answer Below Medial - Answer Toward the median plane Lateral - Answer Away from the median plane Proximal - Answer Closer to the point of attachment or origin Distal - Answer Farther from the point of attachment or origin Superficial - A...

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What are the 7 characteristics of life? - Answer 1. Homeostasis 2. Organization 3. Metabolism 4. Growth 5. Adaptation 6. Response to Stimuli 7. Reproduction What are the major structural levels of organization of the body? - Answer 1. Chemical level 2. Cellular level 3. Tissue level 4. Organ level 5. Organ System level 6. Organism level Describe the principle of Homeostasis - Answer -Stimulus: imbalance is created (room temp decreases) -Receptor: body detects the imbal...

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Integumentary functions: protection - Answer mechanical trauma, pathogens, outside environment Integumentary functions:Sensations - Answer Numerous sensory receptors Integumentary functions:Thermoregulation - Answer sweat glands and vasomotion Integumentary functions: Excretion - Answer lactic acid and urea Integumentary functions: Vita D Synthesis - Answer exposure to cholesterol precursors to UV radiation Burn complications - Answer Infection, hypothermia, canc...

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Asexual - Answer only one parent, all offspring are identical Sexual - Answer Two cells from different parents form follows function - Answer Structure and function core principle Muscle Tissues - Answer movement Nervous Tissues - Answer Signal Connective Tissues - Answer Support Epithelial Tissues - Answer Cover The stomach is made up of ___ tissues - Answer 4; nervous, muscle, epithelial, and connective What is involved with homeostasis - Answer ...

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7 characteristics of life - Answer - organization - cells - response to stimuli - homeostasis - metabolism - growth - development - reproduction - universal genetic code organization - Answer living things are made up of units (unicellular or multicellular) homestasis - Answer maintaining a stable internal environment metabolism - Answer using materials and energy from environment (anabolism and catabolism) growth and development - Answer single celled organi...

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CNS - Answer Integrative Functions (interpretation of sensory info) PNS - Answer sensory + motor functions Telencephalon --> Cerebrum Diencephalon --> Diencephalon - Answer What are the secondary brain vesicles and structures of the mature brain for the Forebrain? Mesencephalon --> Brainstem: Midbrain - Answer What are the secondary brain vesicles and structures of the mature brain for the Midbrain? Metencephalon --> Brainstem: Pons/Cerebellum Myencephalon -...

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skeletal muscle - Answer voluntary, long, cylindrical, multinucleate cells; obvious striations cardiac muscle - Answer involuntary, short, branched, uni/bi-nucleated muscle cells; striated smooth muscle - Answer short, spindle shaped, uni-nucleated cells with no striations; involuntary Contractibility - Answer ability of protein fibers within myocytes to draw together Excitability - Answer ability to respond to stimuli Conductivity - Answer ability to transmit an...

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The cerebellum functions in - Answer the planning and coordination of movement The cerebrum functions in - Answer learning, memory, and personality The diencephalon functions in - Answer biological rhythyms The brain stem functions in - Answer homeostatic functions such as breathing and heart rate Bundles of white matter in the cerebrum are known as - Answer tracts Bundles of gray matter in the cerebrum are known as - Answer nuclei Bundles of white matter in t...

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segmental arteries - Answer Blood enters the kidney through the renal artery, which branches into the _______. papillary duct > minor calyx > major calyx > renal pelvis > ureter > bladder - Answer As urine leaves the collecting duct, it takes which of the following paths to the bladder? sense variations in tubular fluid composition - Answer Three kinds of special cells occur in the juxtaglomerular apparatus. What is the function if macula densa? 8 mm Hg - Answer ...

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What makes up muscle tissue? - Answer cells and extracellular matrix What are the 3 types of muscle tissue? - Answer -skeletal -cardiac -smooth What two muscles cells are striated? - Answer skeletal and cardiac skeletal muscle cells - Answer long, multinucleated and connected to nerves cardiac muscle cells - Answer shorter, uni or binucleated, branched, involuntary, connected to each other by gap junctions smooth muscle cells - Answer short, spindle shaped, unn...

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histology - Answer study of normal structure of tissues tissue - Answer groups of cells, similar in structure, that cooperate to perform a function ground substance, fibrous protein - Answer Cell are embedded in an ECM of _______ & _____. epithelial - Answer type of tissue with sheets of tightly packed cells, little visible ECM covering & linings, glands - Answer Epithelial tissue is found in what 2 primary locations? connective - Answer type of tissue with loose...

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What is the study of Anatomy and what does it include (cytology, regional, systemic, surface anatomy, etc.)? - Answer · Study of anatomy is structure of body parts and their relation to each other is studies cytology study of cells and different anatomy systems of refinal,systemi, and surface anatomy. What is Physiology - Answer The function of body parts Homeostasis—why is it important and what happens for parameters that fall to the extremes? - Answer self-regulating process ...

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What is the difference between anatomy and physiology? - Answer anatomy is the study of the structure and physiology is the study of function What are the types anatomy? - Answer gross (you can see with your bare eyes), microscopic , developmental, regional, surface, systemic, and embryology. What are the types of physiology? - Answer organ and systemic physiology What are the eight characteristics of life? - Answer homeostasis, organization, metabolism, adaptation, response...

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