Chapter 1

Question 1

What is Anatomy?

Answer 1

The study of the bodys structure

Question 2

What is Physiology?

Answer 2

The study of the bodys function

Question 3

What is microscopic Anatomy?

Answer 3

Study of structures too small to be seen by the naked eye

Question 4

What is Developmental Anatomy?

Answer 4

Study of the structural changes that occur in body throughout lifespan

Question 5

Function of the Skeletal System

Answer 5

Protects and supports body organs and provides framework the muscles use to cause movement. Blood cells are formed within bones and bones store minerals

Question 6

Function of the Muscle System?

Answer 6

Allows manipulation of the environment, locomotion, and facial expression. Maintains posture and produces heat

Question 6

Functions of Integumentary?

Answer 6

The external body covering, protects deep tissues from injury. Synthesizes Vitamin D and houses cutaneous (pain, pressure) receptors and sweat and oil glands

Question 7

Function of the Nervous System?

Answer 7

Fast-acting control system of the body. Responds to internal and external changes by activating appropriate muscles and glands.

Question 8

Function of the Endocrine System?

Answer 8

Glands secrete hormones that regulate processes such as growth, reproduction, and nutrient use (metabolism) by body cells

Question 9

Function of Cardiovascular System?

Answer 9

Blood vessels transport blood, which carries oxygen, CO2, nutrients, waste, etc. The heart pumps blood

Question 10

Function of the Lymphatic System?

Answer 10

Picks up fluid leaked from blood vessels and returns it to the blood. Houses white blood cells (lymphocytes) involved in immunity. The immune response mounts the attack against foreign substances in the body

Question 11

Function of the Respiratory?

Answer 11

Keeps blood constantly supplied with oxygen and removes CO2. These exchanges occur through the walls of the air sacs of the lungs

Question 12

Function of the Digestive System?

Answer 12

Breakdown food into absorbable units that enter the blood for distribution to body cells. Indigestible foodstuffs are eliminated as feces.

Question 13

Function of the Urinary System?

Answer 13

Eliminate nitrogenous waste from the body. Regulates water, electrolyte and acid base balance of the blood

Question 14

Function of the Reproductive System?

Answer 14

Produce offspring. Testes produce sperm, Ovaries produce eggs mammary glands of the female breast produce milk to nourish newborn

Question 15

What is Homeostasis?

Answer 15

Dynamic balance

Question 16

What does a negative feedback do?

Answer 16

Reduces stimulus

Question 17

What does a Positive feedback do?

Answer 17

Enhances stimulus

Question 18

An example of Negative Feedback?

Answer 18

Body Temperature

Question 19

An example of a Positive feedback mechanism?

Answer 19

Formation of a platelet plug

Question 20

What is Anatomical Position?

Answer 20

Body Erect, feet slightly apart, palms facing forward with thumbs pointing away from the body

Question 22

Towards the head end or upper part of the structure or body is describes as what directional term
Ex, The head is ______to the abdomen

Answer 22

Superior (cranial)

Question 23

Away form the head end or toward the power part of body

Ex) The belly button is _____to the chin?

Answer 23

Inferior (caudal)

Question 24

Toward or at the front of the body EX) The breastbone is ____to the spine?

Answer 24

Anterior (ventral)

Question 25

Toward the back of the body, behind EX) The heart is ____to the breastbone

Answer 25

Posterior (dorsal).

Question 26

What does the axial region consist of?

Answer 26

Head neck and trunk

Question 27

What does the appendicular division of the body consist of?

Answer 27

Limbs (legs and arms).

Question 28

What body plane divides the body in half or left and right?

Answer 28

Saggital Plane

Question 29

What plane divides the body into posterior and anterior or front and back?

Answer 29

Frontal (coronal) plane

Question 30

What plane divides the body into top and bottom or superior and inferior?

Answer 30

Transverse (horizontal) plane

Question 31

What does the dorsal cavity contain?

Answer 31

The cranial and the vertebral cavity

Question 32

What does the ventral cavity contain?

Answer 32

Thoracic and abdominopelvic

Question 33

What serosa lines the internal body cavity walls?

Answer 33

The parietal serosa

Question 34

What serosa covers the internal organs (viscera)?

Answer 34

The visceral serosa

Question 35

What does the pericardium consist of?

Answer 35

Heart

Question 36

What does the Pleurae consist of?

Answer 36

Lungs

Question 37

What does the Peritoneum consist of?

Answer 37

Abdominopelvic cavity

Question 38

Name the Abdominopelvic Quadrants from right to left, starting at the top?

Answer 38

Right Hypochondriac Epigastric Left Hypochondriac Right Lumbar Umbilical Left Lumbar Right Iliac Hypogastric Left Iliac