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Quick & Easy MT ch 5
Quick & Easy MT Ch 5 Organization of the Body
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Muscular System | Makes movement possible |
| Skeletal System | Provides protection; form and shape for the body, stores minerals and forms some blood cells |
| Cardiovascular System | Delivers oxygen, nutrients, and vital substances throughout the body; transports cellular waste products to the lungs and kidneys for excretion |
| Lymphatic System | helps maintain the internal fluid environment; produces some types of blood cells; regulates immunity |
| Respiratory System | Brings oxygen into the body and removes carbon dioxide and some water waste |
| Digestive System | Provides the body with water, nutrients and minerals; removes solid wastes |
| Urinary System | Filters blood to remove wastes of cellular metabolism; maintains the electrolyte and fluid balance |
| Reproductive system | Facilitates procreation |
| Integumentary system | Provides external covering for protections; regulates the body temperature and water content |
| Nervous system | Coordinates the reception of stimuli; transmits messages to stimulate movement |
| Endocrine system | Secretes hormones and helps regulate body activities |
| anter/o | nearer to or toward the front; ventral |
| poster/o | nearer to or toward the back; situated behind |
| ventr/o | belly side; same as anterior surface in human beings |
| dors/o | directed toward or situated on the back side; same as posterior surface in human beings |
| medi/o | middle or nearer the middle |
| later/o | toward the side; denoting a position farther from the midline of the body or from a structure |
| super/o | uppermost or above |
| infer/o | lowermost or below |
| proxim/o | nearer the origin or point of attachment |
| dist/o | far or distant from the origin or point of attachment |
| cephal/o | toward the head |
| caud/o | toward the tail or in an inferior direction in human beings |
| abdomin/o | abdomen |
| acr/o | extremities (arms and legs) |
| blephar/o | eyelid |
| cyst/o | cyst, bladder or sac |
| dactyl/o | digit (toes, fingers) |
| lapar/o | abdominal wall |
| omphal/o | umbilicus (navel) |
| onych/o | nail |
| pelv/i | pelvis |
| periton/o | peritoneum |
| som/a | body |
| somat/o | body |
| thorac/o | chest (thorax) |
| RUQ | Right Upper Quadrant |
| RLQ | Right Lower Quadrant |
| LLQ | Left Lower Quadrant |
| LUQ | Left Upper Quadrant |
| crin/o | secrete |
| -crine | secrete |
| dacry/o | tear, tearing, crying |
| lacrim/o | tear, tearing, crying |
| -emia | condition of the blood |
| hem/o | blood |
| hemat/o | blood |
| hidr/o | sweat or perspiration |
| lymph/o | lymph |
| muc/o | mucus |
| -poiesis | production |
| -poietin | substance that causes production |
| py/o | pus |
| sial/o | saliva |
| ur/o | urine |
| Hematoma | localized collection of blood (bruise) |
| hemolysis | destruction of red blood cells |
| hemodialysis | diffusing blood through a semipermeable membrane to remove toxic materials (for people with impaired kidney function) |
| coagulation | blood clotting when removed from body |
| anticoagulant | substance that prevents coagulation (forming blood clots) |
| Thrombosis | formation of internal blood clots |
| thrombocytes | platelets |
| erythrocytes | red blood cells |
| leukocytes | white blood cells |
| antigen | substance that is capable of inducing a specific immune response |
| antibodies | the immune response brought about by an antigen |
| Susceptibility | lack of resistance or protection from infectious organisms |
| Immunization | process by which resistance to an infectious disease is induced or augmented |
| Active immunity | individual's own body produces and immune response to a harmful antigen |
| Passive immunity | immune agents response develop in another person or animal and then are transferred to an individual who was not previously immune (borrowed immunity - effective for a short time) |
| Vaccination | any injection or ingestion of inactivated or killed microbes or their products that is administered to induce immunity |
| immunocompromised | immune response that has been weakened by a disease or immunosuppressive agent (drugs, radiation) |
| Allergies | body reacts with an exaggerated immune response to common, harmless substances, most of which are found in the environment |
| anaphylaxis | exaggerated, life-threatening hypersensitivity reactions t oa previously encountered antigen |
| benign | favorable for recovery, not having a tendency to spread (not cancer) |
| Malignant | tending to grow worse, to spread, and possibly become life threatening (cancer). |
| metastases | spreading from one part of the body to another part |
| Bioterrorism | use of pathogenic biological agents to cause terror in a population |
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