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| The study of the structure of an organism and the relationships of its parts. The word anatomy is derived from two Greek words that mean "a cutting up" |
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| Cutting technique used to separate body parts for study |
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| The study of body function |
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| The reference position for the body, which gives meaning to directional terms |
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| The study of the structure of an organism and the relationships of its parts. The word anatomy is derived from two Greek words that mean "a cutting up" |
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| Cutting technique used to separate body parts for study |
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| The study of body function |
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| The reference position for the body, which gives meaning to directional terms |
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| Used to describe the body lying in a horizontal position facing upward |
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| Used to describe the body lying in a horizontal position facing downward |
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| "Toward the head""upper or above" |
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| "Toward the feet""lower or below" |
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| "Toward the midline of the body" |
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| "Toward the side of the body" |
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| "Toward or nearest the trunk of the body, or nearest the point of origin of one of its parts? |
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| "Away from or farthest from the trunk or the point of origin of a body part" |
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| Farther away from the body's surface |
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| longitudinal; like an arrow |
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| Lengthwise plane running from side to side, dividing the body into anterior and posterior portions |
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| Horizontal or crosswise plane |
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| Organ-containing space in the anterior trunk of the body that includes the thoracic and abdominopelvic cavities |
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| Includes the cranial and spinal cavities |
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| Relative uniformity of the normal body's internal enviroment |
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| Homeostatic control system which information feeding back to the control center causes the level of a variable to be changed in the directions opposite to that of the initial stimulus |
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| Homeostatic control system in which information feeding back to the control center causes the level of a variable to be pushed further in the direction of the original deviation, causing an amplification of the original stimulus; ordinarily this mechanism is used by the body to amplify a process and quickly finish it, as in labor contractions and blood clotting |
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| Pertaining to the chest area of the body (upper trunk) |
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| Subdivision in the midportion of the thoracic cavity |
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| The serous membrane in the thoracic cavity |
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| The cavity containing the abdominal organs |
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| The lower portion of the ventral cavity; the distal portion of the abdominopelvic cavity |
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| Used to describe the single cavity containing the abdominal and pelvic organs |
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| Membrane or partition that separates one thing from another; the flat muscular sheet that separates the thorax and abdomen and is a major muscle of respiration |
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| The nine regions of the abdominopelvic cavity |
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| Right hypochondriac region,Epigastric region, Left hypochondriac region, Right lumbar region, Umbilical region, Left lumbar region, Right iliac (inguinal) region, Hypogastric region, Left iliac (inguinal) region |
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| Space inside the skull that contains the brain |
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| The space inside the spinal column through which the spinal cord passes |
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| Division of the abdominopelvic cavity into 4 quadrants |
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| Right upper, Left upper, Right lower, Left lower |
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| Refers to the head, neck, and torso, or trunk of the body |
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| Refers to the upper and lower |
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| Wasting away of tissue, decrease in size of a part; sometimes referred to as disuse atrophy |
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| Relative uniformity of the normal body's internal environment |
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| Responding organ; for example, voluntary and involuntary muscle, the heart, and glands |
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| Is a Greek combining form and denotes a relationship to a cell |
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| Oil-producing gland found in the skin |
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| Malignant neoplasm (cancer) of the pigment-producing cells of the skin (melanocytes) |
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| Stratified squamous epithelium |
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| Consists of several layers of closely packed cells, an arrangement that makes this tissue a specialist at protection |
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| Specialized cells found in simple columnar epithelium that produce mucus |
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| Stratified transitional epithelium |
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| Typically found in body areas subjected to stress and must be able to stretch. Example would be the wall of the urinary bladder |
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