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| Relative constancy of internal environment. |
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part of a homeostatic feedback loop that detects changes in the physiological variable that is regulated in the feedback loop.
(The Thermometer, or cold receptors in the feedback look example) |
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| Part of the homeostatic feedback loop that integrates (puts together) setpoint (pre-programmed) information with actual sensedinformation about a physiological variable and then possible sends out a signal to an effector to change the variable. |
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| Responding Organ: for example, voluntary and involuntary muscle, the heart, and glands. |
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| Toward the head, upper, above |
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| Toward the feet, lower, below |
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| Toward or nearest the trunk, or nearest the point of irigin of a structure. |
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| Away from or farthest from the trunk or farthest from a structure's point of origin. |
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| Toward the midline of a structure |
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| Away from the midline or toward the side of a structure. |
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| Membrane or partition that seperated one thin from another. The flat muscular sheet that separates the thorax and abdomen and is a major muscle of respirations. |
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| The study of the functions of an organism. How the organs work by themselves and in relation to the whole organism. |
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| The study of the structures of an organism. This consists of the size, shape, construction and relative positions of the organs in the body. |
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Greek-Pathos= disease
The scientific study of disease. |
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| the basic biological and structural unit of the body consisting of a nucleus surrounded by sytoplasm and enclosed by a membrane. |
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| Group of several tissue types that performs a special function. |
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| group of similar cells that perform a common function. |
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