Anatomy Final
When we imagine a person exhibiting anatomical position, the palms of the hands are assumed to be facing ______.
Forward
What refers to all of the chemical reactions in the body.
Metabolism
What tissue conducts electrical impulses?
Nervous tissue
The process of bone formation is known as?
Ossification
What type of tissue can be simple or stratified?
epithelial tissue
What type of tissue has an apical (closer to the outside) surface and a basement membrane?
epithelial tissue
What type of tissue is common in glands and their ducts?
epithelial tissue
What tissue does protein junctions from cell to cell create a continuous sheet?
epithelium
What tissue has many glands such as sweat glands and salivary glands that are composed of this tissue?
epithelium
What tissue has one side of the sheet of cells that is embedded in a basement membrane of extracellular "glue"?
epithelium
What is superficial?
external
TRUE OR FALSE Diffusion occurs when molecules move against their concentration gradients.
false
TRUE OR FALSE Osmosis takes place when water goes from an area of low water concentration to an area of high water concentration.
false
TRUE OR FALSE Proximal means farther from the origin of a body part.
false
TRUE OR FALSE Tissues are made up of different types of organs.
false
What is distal?
farther from the origin of a body part or the point of attachment of a limb to the body trunk.
What joint category is joint created by the teeth and mandible or maxillary bones?
fibrous joint
What joint category is skull sutures?
fibrous joint
The body's ability to maintain stable internal conditions is referred to as ____.
homeostasis
The skin and its derivatives (nails, glands, and hairs) form the ________.
integumentary system
Where are mucous membranes found?
lining the inside of the stomach
Diffusion occurs because
molecules constantly move and collide with one another
Which membrane lines body cavities that are open to the exterior?
mucous
What tissue has contractile properties?
muscle
What type of tissue can be described as voluntary or involuntary?
muscle tissue
What type of tissue is specialized to contract and produce movement?
muscle tissue
What type of tissue can be found in the brain and spinal cord?
nervous tissue
What type of tissue has two functional characteristics that are irritability and conductivity?
nervous tissue
The passive process that involves the movement of water through aquaporins is
osmosis
What type of passive process which water is moved through aquaporins?
osmosis
The pleura and pericardium are examples of _______ membranes that cover organs in a body cavity closed to the exterior.
serous
What does the axial skeleton contain?
skull, true and false ribs, and vertebrae
The type of muscle found in the walls of hollow organs, such as the stomach, and the walls of blood vessels is _______.
smooth muscle
What type of active transport in which sodium and potassium are pumped across a membrane using ATP?
solute pumping
What bone is considered to a be apart of the axial skeleton?
sternum
The thoracic cavity is ______ to the abdominopelvic cavity.
superior
A _______ is a type of cushioning joint that allows limited movement and is found both in the symphysis pubis and in invertebral discs.
symphysis
Immovable joints are functionally classified as _________.
synarthroses
An epiphyseal plate is what type of joint, even though it is temporary?
synchondrosis
The _____ membrane lines the fibrous capsule surrounding joints.
synovial
Which of the following reduces friction in movable joints, such as the knee?
synovial fluid
What joint category is hinge joint, such as the elbow joint?
synovial joint
What is superior?
above
Articulations permitting only slight degrees of movement are _____, whereas articulations permitting no movement are called ______.
amphiarthroses; synarthroses
The study of the structure and shape of the body and its parts and their relationships to one another is called?
anatomy
Ventral is a directional term synonymous with ______ in humans.
anterior
What is ventral?
anterior
What orientation and directional terms have the same meaning (in humans)?
anterior and ventral
What type of tissue covers the epiphysis of bones of bones and reduces friction in the joints?
articular cartilage
What represents the chemical level of structure in the human body?
atoms
What is deep?
away from the midline
What is lateral?
away from the midline.
The skull, vertebral column, and thoracic cage form the _______ skeleton.
axial
What is dorsal?
behind
The heart and blood vessels are the primary organs of the _____ system.
cardiovascular
What joint category is joint created by the intervertebral discs?
cartilaginous joint
What joint category is the joint created by the pubic symphysis?
cartilaginous joint
What is the smallest unit of all living things?
cell
What is proximal?
close to the origin of a body part or the point of attachment of a limb to the body trunk.
What tissue binds and connects body parts?
connective tissue
What tissue matrix is usually abundant in this general tissue type?
connective tissue
What type of tissue can be classified as loose or dense?
connective tissue
What type of tissue can support, protect, and bind tissue together?
connective tissue
What type of tissue consists of living cells surrounded by an extracellular matrix?
connective tissue
What type of tissue contain collagen, elastic, or reticular fibers?
connective tissue
The only dry membrane is the _______.
cutaneous membrane
What type of passive process in which molecules move across the plasma membrane down a concentration gradient?
diffusion
Passive processes that move substances across membranes ______.
do not require ATP
What type of active process in which the cell engulfs extracellular substances by phagocytosis or pinocytosis?
Endocytosis
What tissue lines cavities, tubes, covers the body?
Epithelium
Groups of cells that are similar in both structure and function are known as _____.
tissues
What is medial?
toward the midline
The diaphragm creates a _____ section between the thoracic and abdominal body cavities.
transverse (cross)
TRUE OR FALSE Diarthroses have a greater degree of mobility and flexibility than synarthroses.
true
TRUE OR FALSE Survival needs include nutrients, oxygen, water and appropriate temperature and atmospheric pressure.
true
TRUE OR FALSE The intervertebral discs that cushion the spine and absorb shock are composed of fibrocartilage.
true