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Chapter 1 Introduction & Terminology Review

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Structure that can be observed with the naked eye   Gross Anatomy  
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Simplest structures considered to meet the criteria of living things   Cells  
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The urethra is found in the ___ region of the abdomen   Hypogastric  
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Self-amplifying chain of physiological events   Positive Feedback  
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Studying anatomy by touch   Palpation  
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Hetero-   Different  
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Ring-shaped section of the small intestine   Sagittal section  
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The ___ region is immediately lateral to the hypogastric region   Inguinal  
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Organ system that regulates blood volume, controls acid-base balance and stimulates red blood cell production   Urinary System  
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Words that are composed of the first letter(s) of a word or series of words   Acronyms  
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(T/F) A scientific theory is just a speculation until someone finds the evidence to prove it.   F  
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(T/F) A single sagittal section of the body can pass through one lung but not through both   T  
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(T/F) Abnormal skin color or dryness could be one piece of diagnostic information gained by auscultation   F  
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(T/F) In a typical clinical research study, volunteer patients are in the treatment group and the physicians who run the study are the control group   F  
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(T/F) It would be possible to see both eyes in one frontal section of the head   T  
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(T/F) Negative feedback usually has a negative/harmful effects on the body   F  
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(T/F) The diaphragm is posterior to the lungs   F  
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(T/F) The axial region consists of the head, neck and the trunk   T  
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(T/F) The peritoneum lines the inside of the stomach and intestines   F  
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(T/F) The technique for listening to the sounds of the heart valves is auscultation   T  
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Invented many components of the compound microscope and named the cell   Robert Hooke  
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Simplest body structure to be composed of two or more types of tissues   Organ  
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By the process of ___, a person may come to a conclusion by simply observing natural phenomenon over and over again   Induction Method  
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Cutting and separating tissues to reveal structural relationships   Dissection  
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Organs that lie within the abdominal cavity but not within the peritoneal cavity are said to have a ___ position   Retroperitoneal  
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Physiological effects of a person's mental state   Psychosomatic effects  
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Self-corrective mechanisms in physiology   Feedback loops  
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Back of the neck is called the ___ region   Nuchal  
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Membranes which line the cranial cavity   Meninges  
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The forearm is said to be ___ when the palms are facing forward   Supinated  
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The superficial layer of pleura   Parietal pleura  
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Above   Superior  
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Below   Inferior  
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Closer to the surface of the body   Superficial  
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Farther from the body surface   Deep  
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Farther from the point of attachment   Distal  
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Toward the belly/front   Ventral  
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Toward the forehead or nose   Rostral  
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Toward the median plane   Medial  
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Toward the tail/inferior end   Caudal  
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Toward the ventral side   Anterior  
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Major features of human anatomy have prescribed standard international names   Terminologia Anatomica  
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Rejected all eponyms and gave each structure unique Latin names used world-wide   Nomina Anatomica  
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Methods of viewing the inside of the body without surgery   Medical imaging  
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Branch of medicine concerned with imaging   Radiology  
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Study of the structure and function of individual cells   Cytology  
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Study of how different species meet the requirements of life   Comparative physiology  
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Father of medicine   Hippocrates  
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First to write about anatomy and physiology   Aristotle  
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Study of the structure of more than once species   Comparative anatomy  
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Certain habits of disciplines creativity, careful observation, logical thinking and analysis of one's observations/conclusions   Scientific method  
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Explanatory statement or set of statements derived fro facts, laws and confirmed hypotheses   Theory  
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Information that can be independently verified by any trained person   Fact  
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Generalization about the predictable ways in which matter and energy behave   Law  
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Laws of nature ___, they do not govern.   Describe  
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Structure composed of two or more tissue types   Organs  
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Single, complete individual   Organism  
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Group of organs working together with a unique, collaborative function   Organ system  
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Smallest particles with unique chemical identities   Atoms  
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Large, complex system such as the human body can be understood by studying its simpler components   Reductionism  
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Properties of individual parts do not fully describe the behavior of the whole organism   Holism  
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Sum of all internal chemical reactions   Metabolism  
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Transformation of cells with no specialized function into those with a specific purpose   Differentiation  
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Tendency of the body to balance internal conditions   Homeostasis  
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Increase in size   Growth  
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The changes in the environment in which the organism responds to   Stimuli  
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Internal state of the body   Dynamic equilibrium  
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Widening of the vessels   Vasodilation  
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Narrowing of the blood vessels   Vasoconstriction  
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Cell or organ that carries out final corrective action in a feedback mechanism   Effector  
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Terms coined from the names of people   Eponyms  
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Words composed of the first letter or letters of a word or words   Acronym  
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Palms facing posteriorly   Pronated  
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Stance in which a person stands erect with feet flat on the floor and close together, face and palms facing forward with arms at the sides   Anatomical position  
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Passes across the body or an organ perpendicular to is long axis   Transverse plane  
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Passes vertically through the body or an organ and divides it into right and left portions   Sagittal plane  
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Cuts a body or organ into perfect L and R halves   Midsagittal plane  
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Thoracic and abdominal regions   Trunk  
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Upper and lower limbs   Appendicular region  
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Limb region between one joint and the next   Segment  
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Enclosed by vertebral column   Vertebral canal  
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Enclosed by the cranium   Cranial cavity  
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Two-layered membrane encompassing the heart   Pericardium  
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Forms the surface of the heart   Visceral pericardium  
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The pericardial cavity is lubricated by...   Pericardial fluid  
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Covers the surface of the lungs...   Visceral pleura  
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Two-layered serous membrane within the abdominopelvic cavity   Peritoneum  
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Spaces between body membranes   Potential spaces  
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Established a code of ethics for physicians   Hippocrates  
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Argued that complex structures are built from a smaller variety of simple components   Aristotle  
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Physician to the Roman gladiators; at a time when it was not permitted to work with cadavers, he learned a great deal from the death and various wounds he was exposed to and published the most influential medical book of the ancient era   Claudius Galen  
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Physician to the court of the sultan; wrote 10 influential medical books and numerous treatises on specific diseases   Maimonides  
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Wrote the Canon of Medicine which was the leading authority in European medical schools for over 500 years   Avicenna  
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Revolutionized medical illustration with the comparatively realistic art in the 1500s   Andreas Vesalius  
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Studied blood circulation and published a book in 1628   William Harvey  
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First Western scientist to realize that blood much circulate continuously and the the heart was the central organ   Michael Servetus  
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Invented the simple microscope and examined a variety of speciments   Antony van Leeuwenhoek  
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Greatly improved the compound microscope, adding a condenser and developing superior optics   Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe  
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Concluded that all living things were composed of cells; the first tenet of the Cell theory   Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann  
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(T/F) Even in the early days of medicine, there were medical schools to train physicians   F  
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Neither the subject nor the person recording the results knows whether that subject is receiving the experimental treatment of placebo   Double-Blind Method  
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Means that if we claim something is scientifically true, we must be able to specify what evidence it would take to prove it wrong   Falsifiability  
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Animal species or train selected for research on a particular problem   Model  
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Highly flexible thumbs; can cross palm to touch finger tips   Opposable  
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Adaptation provided better hand-eye coordination in catching and manipulating prey   Stereoscopic vision  
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principal theory of how evolution works   Natural selection  
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Features of an organisms anatomy, physiology and behavior that have evolved in response to selection pressures   Adaptations  
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Change in genetic composition of a population of organisms   Evolution  
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Father of evolution   Charles Darwin  
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Walking upright on two legs   Bipedalism  
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