Physiology Lesson one
Terms
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- Anatomical Positon
- Looking at the body, palms up
- Axial
- Main part of body: trunk/abdomen + chest. (Most consider head and neck too)
- Appendicular
- Legs and Arms (appendiges)
- Superior (cranial)
- towards the head
- Inferior (caudal)
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towards the front
dog=tail - Anterior (ventral)
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your front
animals=underbelly - Posterior (dorsal)
- Your back. Shoulderblades=scapulas
- Medial
- Closer to the midline (nose medial to your eyes)
- Lateral
- Towards the sides
- Intermediate
- Inbetween
- Proximal
- Only refers to arms and legs. The point closest to attatchment.
- Distal
- The point furthest from the point of attatchment.
- Superficial
- Towards the outside
- Deep
- Towards the interior
- Section
- To cut, or divide
- Plane
- A flat surface
- Sagittal Section
- A vertical cut, creating two new sections, a right and a left
- Mid-Sagital
- A vertical cut on the midline, producing equal right and left hand sides
- Para-Sagital
- A vertical cut that is not on the idine, producing two unequal rt. and left sides
- Frontal Section (coronal
- A verticle cut that produces a front and a back.
- Transverse (horizontal or cross section)
- A horizontal cut
- Oblique
- At an angle (cut)
- Dorsal Body Cavity
- Towards the back
- Cranial Cavity
- The Head cavity. (dorsal)
- Spinal cavity (vetebral)
- The cavity formed by the spinal cord. (dorsal)
- Plantar surface
- Bottoms of your feet
- Palmar Surface
- your palms
- Serosa (serous)
- A watery tpe looking fluid. Produced by the membranes on your internal organs. (They are they're for lubrication when for example, you exercise.)
- Mucosa( mocous)
- Line all the openings to the external part of your body. To capture dust and shit.
- Parietal
- The wall of your body cavities. (between lung and ribs)
- Homeostasis
- Internal environment that is safe and stable
- Receptor
- Receptors that pick up enviornmental changes
- Control center
- Your brain, takes the infro from the receptor
- Effector
- The part of the body that recieves a command and carries out a duty
- Negative Feedback Mechanism
- Opposite response in an opposite direction of what it was told to do. (hand on stove.)
- Positive Feedback Mechanism
- Child birth
- Axillary
- Armpit
- Patellar
- Front part of your knee
- Occipital
- Back of your head
- Popliteal
- Back of your knee (pulse)
- Plural Cavity
- Your lungs