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| Moving away from the midline of the body |
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| Moving toward the midline of the body |
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| Clinical term referring to hair loss |
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| The standard neutral reference position for the body used to describe sites or motions of various body parts; gives meaning to directional terms |
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| Sweat glands located in te axilla and genital regions; these glands enlarge and begin to function at puberty |
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| Smooth muscles of the skin, which are attached to hair follicles; when contraction occurs, the hair stands up, resulting in "goose bumps" |
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| Cartilage covering the joint end of bones |
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A pus-flled cavity formed by some hair follicle infections |
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| Movement in a circular motion |
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| Painful muscle spasms (involuntary twitches) that result from irritating stimuli, as in mild inflammation, or from iron imbalances |
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| Primary organ of the integumentary system; the skin |
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| Farther away (internally) from the body's surface |
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| The flat muscular sheet that separates the thorax and abdomen and is a major muscle of respiration |
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| Freely moveable joints, allow considerable movements; have a joint cavity, and a layer of cartilage over the ends of two joining bones |
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| Abnormal movement of body parts, as in separation of bones of a joint |
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| Toward the end of a structure |
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| Includes the cranial and spinal cavities |
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| Movement in which the top of the foot is elevated with the toes pointint upward |
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| Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy |
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| For of muscular dystrophy inherited on the X chromosome and characterized by mild leg muscle weakness that progresses rapidly to include the shoulder muscles and eventually death from cardiac or respiratory muscle weakness |
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| Small sweat glands distributed over the total body surface |
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| A fibrous membrane that lines the medullary cavity |
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| The cartilage plate that is between the epiphysis and diaphysis and allows growth to occur; sometimes referred to as the "growth plate" |
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| Complicated bone that helps form flloor of cranium, side walls and roof of nose and part of its middle partition, and part of orbit; contains honeycomb-like spaces; form ledges along side wall of each nasal cavity |
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| increasing the angle between two bones at a joint |
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| The 8th, 9th, and 10th pairs of ribs, which are attached to the cartilage of the 7th ribs rather than the sternum |
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| The thigh bone, which is the longest bone in the body |
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| Inflammation of muscle tissue accompanied by inflammation of nearby tendon tissue |
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| The slender non-weight-bearing bone located on the lateral aspect of the leg |
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| Minor burn with only minimal discomfort and no blistering; epidermis may peel but no dermal injury occurs |
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| Act of bending; decreasing th angle between two bones at the joint |
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| Lengthwise plane running from side to side, dividing the body into anterior and posterior portions |
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| Functions of the Muscular System |
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-Movement
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-Heat Prodction |
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| Little raised places between depressed points of skin; when arrector pili muscle contraction occurs, each muscle simultaneously pulls on two points of attachment (that is up on a hair follicle, but down on a part of skin) |
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| Abnormal condition in which excess uric acid is deposited in joints and other tissues as sodium urate crystals |
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| A small tube where hair growth occurs |
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| Relative uniformity of the normal body's internal environment |
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| The second longest bone in the body; the long bone of the arm |
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| A highly contagious bacterial skin infection that occurs most often in children |
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| Inflammation of joint tissues caused by a variety of pathogens |
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| One of three separate bones that forms the os coxae |
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| Type of muscle contraction in which muscle does not shorten |
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| Type of muscle contraction that maintains uniform tension or pressure |
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| Abnormally exaggerated thoracic curvature of the vertebral column |
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| Released as a waste product from working muscles; buildup has been blamed for the soreness and fatigue that sometimes accompany strenuous exercise; may result in burning sensation in muscle during exercise |
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| Abnormally exaggerated lumbar curvature of the vertebral column |
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| For of alopecia; not from a disease but simply inherited traits; may alos be a normal consequence of aging |
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| Inflammation of the air cells within the mastoid portion of the temporal bone; usually caused by infection |
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| Hollow area inside the diaphysis of the bone that contains yellow bone marrow |
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| The part of the hand between the wrist and fingers |
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| The five bones that form the foot; articulate with tarsal bones proximally and the firt row of the toe phalanges distally |
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| A cut or plane that divides the body or any of its parts into two equal halves |
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| Increased size of a muscle caused by an increase in the size of its cells |
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| General term referring to the symptom of pain in muscle tissue |
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| Auto-immune muscle disorder characterized by progressive weakness and chronic fatigue |
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| Bone disorder usually caused by Vitamin D deficiency and characterized by loss of mineral in the bone matrix; the adult form of rickets |
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| Bone disorder characterized by los of minerals and collagen from bone matrix, reducing the volumn and strength of skeletal bone |
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| Osteitis Deformas; a common, often mild bone disorder characterized by replacement of normal spongy bone with disorganized bone matrix |
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| Serous membrane that lines and is adherent to the wall of the abdominal cavity |
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| small, shallow pan; kneecap |
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| The scientific study of disease |
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| Shoulder girdle; the scapula and clavicle |
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| Connects the legs to the trunk |
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| Tough, connectiv tissue covering the bone |
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| Inflammation of the serous membranes in the abdominopelvic cavity; sometimes a serious complication of an infected appendix |
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| The bones that make up the fingers and toes |
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| Movement in which the bottom of the foot is directed downwards; this motion allows a person to stand on tip-toe |
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| Inflammation of the pleura |
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| Homeostatic control sytem in which information feeding back to the control center causes the level of a variale to be pushed farther back in the direction of the original deviation; causing an amplification of the original stimulus. Ex: labor contractions and blood clotting |
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| To make a rotational movement of the forearm (turning the palm medially to face backward) or of the leg and ankle (turning the foot so toes point outward and the medial edge of the side hits the ground) |
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| Used to describe the body lying in a horizontal position facing downward |
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| Next or nearest; located nearest the center of the body or the point of attachment of a structure |
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| One of the two bones in the forearm; located on the thumb side of the forearm |
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| An auto-immune inflammatory joint disease characterized by synovial inflammation that spreads to other tissue |
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| Childhood form of osteomalacia, a bone-softening condition casued by vitamin D deficiency |
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| Movement around a longitudinal axis; for example, shaking your head "no" |
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| A frequently used method to determine the extent of a burn injury; the body is divided into 11 areas of 9% each to help estimate the amount of skin surface burned in an adult |
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| Longitudinal; like an arrow |
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| Abnormal lateral curvature of the vertebral column |
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| Oil-producing glands found in the skin |
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| Burn injury that is more severe than a first-degree burn and often involves damage to the dermis |
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| Skeletal System Functions |
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-Support
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-Squamous Cell Carcinoma
*Most common type!
-Basal Cell Carcinoma
-Melanoma |
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| Forms central part of floor of cranium; pituitart gland located in small depression in sphenoid called sella turcica; muscles attach to pterygoid process |
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| An acute injury to soft tissues surrounding a joint, including muscle, tendon, and/or ligament |
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| Breastbone; shaped like a dagger; where ribs attach to |
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| Injury involving any component of the "musculotendinous unit", although muscle is usually involved, the tendon, the junstion between the two, as well as their attachments to bone may also be involved |
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| Muscles under willed or voluntray control |
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| Abnormal, partial separation of the bones in a joint |
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| Glands that secrete sweat |
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| To make a rotational movement of the forearm (turning the palm laterally to face forward) or of the leg and ankle (turning the foot so toes point inward and the lateral edge of the sole hits the ground) |
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| Description of the body, lying in a horizontal position facing upward |
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| Seven bones of the heel and back aprt of the foot; calcaneus is the largest |
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| Involves complete destruction of both epidermis and dermis with injury extending into subcutaneous tissue |
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| General name for many different mycoses (fungal infections) of the skin; ex: ringworm, jock itch, athlete's foot |
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| A flat cut through the body (or body part) that is horizontal or crosswise than thus divides the body (or body part) into upper and lower portions |
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| The first seven pairs of ribs, which are attached to the sternum |
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| A quick, jerky response to a stimulus |
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| One of the two forearm bones, located on the little finger side |
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| Serous membrane that covers and is adherent to the surface of the lungs |
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| Muscle under willed or voluntary control |
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| Raised bump that is a benign neoplasm (tumor) of the skin caused by viruses |
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| Cheek bones, also help form orbit |
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