Health Science Unit 3
Jane just signed up for her spring semester courses, and there is one course that she is very much looking forward to. The course Jane is excited about involves the study of the structure of the body, from the microscopic parts to the parts you can see and touch. What is most likely the topic of this course?
anatomy
What term refers to the study of the function and structure of movement in the body, specifically how the laws of mechanics apply
biomechanics
The ___ part of your arm would be your fingers
distal
What term refers to the digital version of a patient chart, including all necessary information
electronic medical records (EMRs)
The body process are all geared towards keeping the body at a healthy
equilibrium
What term refers to pathways that communicate the status and send signals to change the status if it is out of balance
feedback loops
The words flexion, extension, rotation, abduction, and adduction describe:
how different parts of the body move in different ways
What kind of tissue responds to stimulation and can contract
muscle tissue
What specific type of tissue acts as a pathway to allow communication between different regions of the body?
nervous tissue
What medical term describes the position on a limb that is closer to where the limb attaches to the body?
proximal
What term refers to a part that can be added to the end of a word and indicates a procedure, condition, or disease
suffix
What medical term can be used to describe the nose as being positioned higher on the body?
superior
What is the scientific word for how the body keeps check on the temperature. Done primarily through the skin, with sweating to resale heat, widening or narrowing the blood vessels near the surface, or by insulating with the fat under the skin?
themoregulation
Name the tissues
1-Connective 2- Epithelial 3- Muscle 4- Nervous
Your face is on the ___ part of your body
Anterior
How can you correctly break down the word Cardiomyopathy into parts that will help you understand the meaning of the word?
Cardio = Heart + Myo = (Muscle) Pathy (Disease) = disease of the heart
What kind of tissue can be described as a membrane or skin that covers the outside of the body and the surfaces of organs withing the body
Epitheial tissue
All medical terms must contain a prefix
False
The term lateral describes something that is closer to the midline of the body
False
The wrist is proximal as compared to the elbow
False
What term refers to the study of body movement including how muscles, bones, tendons, and ligaments work together to produce movement?
Kinesiology
_______ Is good for health, increasing blood circulation, stimulating digestion, and helping toxins to move out of your body
Movement
On the hierarchy ladder of the body systems, after the tissue rung the next rung is composed of structures made up of two or more types of tissue that perform a specific function of the body, like the heart, lungs, liver, brain, bladder, stomach, kidneys, and so on. What term BEST describes this run on the ladder
Organs
What term describes the study of the chemistry and physics of the structure of the body and how these processes work together to form a living organism (function)?
Physiology
What term refers to the top rung of the structural ladder?
The whole organisim
A combing vowel helps to make a medical term easier to pronounce. You do not always have to use a combing vowel.
True
Abbreviations are never allowed when documenting a medical record because they could cause confusion
True
When in the atomical position, your thumbs are lateral because they are away from the midline of the body
True
Your heart is medial as compared to your lungs
True
Alexis is brushing up on her medical terminology for an upcoming anatomy exam so, when her brother asks her for a band-aid because he has a cut on his hand, she asks him whether the cut is on the anterior or posterior of his hand. What is Alexis trying to figure out about her brothers cut?
Weather if it is on the front or back of his hand
