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©PREP4EXAMS @2024 [REAL EXAM DUMPS] Wednesday, July 17, 2024 1:27 AMAnatomy & Physiology midterm review
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Homeostasis - ✔️✔️the ability for an organism to maintain internal equilibrium by changing
its physiology process
Anatomical position - ✔️✔️the body is assumed to be standing, the feet together, the arms to
the side and the head, eyes, and palms of the hands facing forwards
Superior - ✔️✔️above, over
inferior - ✔️✔️below, under
medial - ✔️✔️toward the side, away from midline
proximal - ✔️✔️near, closer to the orgin
distal - ✔️✔️away from, farther from the orgin
superficial - ✔️✔️more external
deep - ✔️✔️more internal
Sagittal plane - ✔️✔️vertical plane through body, divides right from left
midsagittal plane - ✔️✔️sagittal plane that divides body into equal left and right regions
parasagittal plane - ✔️✔️sagittal plane that divided the body into unequal right and left regions
frontal/coronal plane - ✔️✔️vertical plane through body, divided anterior and posterior regions
transverse plane - ✔️✔️horizontal plane through body, divides midsection into superior and
inferior regions
Organ systems - ✔️✔️skeletal, muscular, circulatory, nervous, respiratory, digestive, excretory,
endocrine, reproductive, and lymphatic
excretory system - ✔️✔️filters waste
endocrine system - ✔️✔️relay chemicals through body
lymphatic system - ✔️✔️immunity
cell membrane - ✔️✔️forms a bilayer of phospholipids
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molecules - ✔️✔️lipids composed of protiens, and small amount of carbohydrates
Mitochondria - ✔️✔️membranous, elongated fluid filled sacs: transform energy into usable
form
Peroxisomes - ✔️✔️membranos cells that carry out oxidative reactions, such as oxidation of
alcohol in the liver
Lysosomes - ✔️✔️membranous, digest bacteria, viruses, antoxins
ER - ✔️✔️membranous, transports molecules from one cell part to another
golgi apparatus - ✔️✔️membranous, stacked and flattened sacs
Cytoskeleton - ✔️✔️nonmembranous, one of two cylinrical cellular structures that are
composed of nine triplet microtubeles and form the asters during mitosis
Centrioles - ✔️✔️nonmembranous, one of two cylindrical cellular structures that are composed
of nine triplet microtubules and form the asters during mitosis
Ribosomes - ✔️✔️nonmembranous, granule contaning protein and RNA; site of protein
synthesis
Nucleus - ✔️✔️houses genetic material, which directs all cell activity
Differentiation - ✔️✔️process by which cells develop differnt characteristics in structure and
function
Apoptosis - ✔️✔️cell death
4 types of tissue - ✔️✔️Epithelia, Connective, Muscle, Nervous
simple - ✔️✔️1 layer
stratified - ✔️✔️more then 1
shapes - ✔️✔️squamous, cuboidal, columnar
Where is epithelial tissue found? - ✔️✔️lines the body cavities and hollow organs
Microvilli - ✔️✔️it increases surface area
Cilia - ✔️✔️a whip like motile extension on the surface of certain cells
pseudostratified columnary epithelial tissue - ✔️✔️appear stratified but are not
transitional epithelium - ✔️✔️is specialized to change in response to increased tension
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