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Anatomy
Questions for human anatomy review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the two main cavities of the body? What organs does each contain? | Dorsal, and ventral cavities. Dorsal contains the cranial cavity (brain), and spinal cavity (spinal cord). Ventral contains the thoracic cavity (lungs, and heart), abdominal cavity (stomach, liver, intestine) and pelvic (reproductive). |
| Anabolism versus catabolism | Catabolism breaks down molecules to release energy, and anabolism uses energy to synthesize new molecules. |
| Levels of organization of the body are? | Cellular, organelle, chemical, tissue, organ, system, and organism. |
| What are the different types of direct cell junctions? | Tight junctions, desmosomes, adherens junctions, and gap junctions. |
| How do you distinguish the three types of muscle tissue? | Skeletal muscle is striated with long multinucleated fibers, cardiac muscle is striated with short, branched fibers with a central nucleus as well as intercalated discs connecting the cells, smooth muscle has spindle-shaped fibers and a single nucleus. |
| What is the different between endocrine and exocrine glands? | Endocrine glands secrete hormones into the bloodstream, exocrine glands excrete a substance through ducts into a cavity, or the external body surface. |
| What are the six major structures of a typic long bone? | Diaphysis, epiphysis, medullary cavity, periosteum, articular cartilage, and compact bone. |
| What are the three major types of chemical bonds? What constitutes them? | Ionic bonds through attraction of oppositely charged ions, Covalent bonds through the sharing of electrons, and hydrogen bonds through a slightly positive charged hydrogen atom attracted to a slight negative charge atom like oxygen, or nitrogen. |
| What are the three microscopic glands that reside in the skin? | The sweat glands used for thermal regulation, sebaceous glands used for protecting the body and maintaining skin health, and ceruminous glands for ear protection. |
| What are the quadrants, and regions of the abdominopelvic cavity? | Right upper quadrant, left upper quadrant, right lower quadrant, and left lower quadrant. Right hypochondriac, epigastric, left hypochondriac, right lumbar, umbilical, left lumbar, right iliac, hypogastric, and left iliac regions. |
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