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Quiz 9/6/13
systems, directions, planes
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |