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Physiology Chapter One
The Study of Body Function
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Physiology
Undergraduate 3
02/26/2014

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1. The study of how disease or injury alters physiological processes is termed
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pathophysiology.
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____________ trials maximize the number of test participants and include human participants of both sexes, different ethnic groups, and those who have health problems besides the one that the drug is designed to treat
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- Phase III clinical
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When a scientist performs measurements in an experiment and does not know if the subject is part of the experimental or the control group, it is known as a ______________
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blind measurement.
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Physiology emphasizes ____________________
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cause-and-effect mechanisms.
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A hypothesis is scientific if it can be_____________
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tested
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The term homeostasis was coined by Walter Cannon to describe the constancy of the ____________
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milieu interieur.
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An integrating center of a negative feedback loop has the function of _________________ from many different sensors about ____________ from a set point and then altering the activity of particular effectors to compensate for the ____________
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analyzing information

deviations

deviation.
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. ____________ mg/100 ml is the approximate normal range of blood glucose concentration after fasting
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- 75 to 110
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The normal range of arterial blood pH is____________
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7.35-7.45.
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12 ____________ and ____________ are often regulators of effectors in most feedback loops -
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Hormones, nerves
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Endocrine glands secrete ____________ in response to specific stimuli –
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hormones
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14. Insulin is secreted from structures called _____________
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pancreatic islets.
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15. In positive feedback mechanisms, the action of an effector is _____________.
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increased.
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Homeostasis is best thought of as being a state of dynamic constancy.The control of hormone secretion by its own effects is called ______________. The primary stimulus for insulin secretion is increased blood glucose concentrations. If blood glucose levels decrease from normal, which of the following changes takes place to bring glucose levels back to normal - decrease in insulin - increase in glucagon
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negative feedback inhibition
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Intercalated discs couple ________ cells both mechanically and electrically
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- myocardial
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. _______________ is a series of wavelike contractions of circular and longitudinal layers of muscle that push food from one end of the digestive tract to the other -
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Peristalsis
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20. Neuroglial cells are supporting cells present in the both the _______ and __________
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brain

spinal cord.
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The highly branched extensions of a neuron whose function is to receive input from other neurons or receptor cells are called ______________.
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dendrites.
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Cells providing support for nervous tissue are termed _____________
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neuroglial cells.
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