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Quiz 9/6/13
systems, directions, planes
Term | Definition |
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Cardiovascular | moves blood through body/heart |
Digestive | lets you collect food into body/stomach |
Endocrine | glands, help control bodily metabolic activity |
Integumentary | skin |
Lymphatic | vessels that lymph drains from tissue |
Muscular | allows you to move |
Nervous | transmits impulses between body parts/brain |
Reproductive | production and maturation of gametes in union |
Respiratory | taking oxygen, giving carbon dioxide/lungs |
Skeletal | provides frame/holds up body |
Urinary | rids of urine |
Inferior | lower/worse off |
Superior | higher/better off |
Anterior | head end/front of body |
Posterior | tail end/back of body |
Medial | middle |
Lateral | side |
Proximal | describes where the appendage joins body |
Distal | point furthest from point of attachment to body |
Dorsal | Backbone |
Ventral | Belly |
Frontal | front to back |
Sagittal | side to side |
Transverse | up and down |