There are 5 basic life functions:
Growth and Development
Reproduce
Respond to environment
Nutrition
Excertion
All living things have certain things in common:
Adaptation to their environment
Sensitive to environment
Reproduction
Cells
They grow and develop
The building blocks of life are cells.
All cells in a human are not the same. Please give examples of at least two different types of cells in humans.
Why are cells not the same? Because they reflect the different functions they serve.
The first person to discover cells was Robert Hooke. He called them cells because they looked like monks' cells called cellula. He first saw cells when he was looking at a piece of cork under a microscope. The cell theory was created by Matthias Jakob Schleiden and Theodor Schwann.
The three main ideas in the cell theory are
Cells are the basic unit of life
All cells arise from preexisting cells
All organisms are made up of one or more cells
Unlike animal cells, plant cells contain the organelles chloroplast and a cell wall. All animal cells are covered in a cell membrane. The function of this is to protect the cell. The different parts of the cell are known as organelles. Each organelle has a specific function. The function of the nucleus is to provide the cell with its unique characteristics. The mitochondria are also known as the power centers of the cell because their function is to obtain energy from glucose by tissue respiration. Storage is the main function of the vacuole. Bacteria are interesting organisms. Bacterial cells do not have a membrane. Instead the chromosomes of the cell are located in the nucleoid. There are different types of transport used in cells as well. Diffusion is the movement of particles from high concentration to low concentration. Osmosis is different than this because it requires ________________________________________ and _____________________________.
What is the difference between active and passive transport?
What organelle makes the energy used in active transport?
Is a virus a living cell? No
What is contained inside a virus? DNA and RNA
What is the only life function of a virus?
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Study Questions in Anatomy Text
Chapter 1: pg. 29
Critical Thinking:
2. In health, body parts interact to maintain homeostasis. Illness may threaten homeostasis, requiring treatments. What treatments might be used to help control a patient's (a) body temperature, (b) blood oxygen concentration, and (c) water content?
4. If a patient complained of a stomachache and pointed to the umbilical region as the site of the discomfort, which organs located in this region might be the source of the pain? Intestines
Review Exercises
Part A:
2. Distinguish between anatomy and physiology. Anatomy is the study of the brain and the structues of the body, Physiology is the study of the functions of the structures.
4. List and describe ten characteristics of life. Movement, Responsiveness, Growth, Reproduction, Respiration, Digestion, Absorption, Circulation, Assimilation, Excretion
6. List and describe five requirements of organisms. Water-it transports substances within organisms and is important in regulating body temperature, Food-provides prgansim with necessary chemicals, Oxygen-releases energy from nutrients, Heat-a form of energy, Pressure-an application of force on an object or substance, needed for blood pressure in humans which keeps blood flowing through blood vessels.
7. Explain how the idea of homeostasis relates to the five requirements you listed in item 6. The control center of the brain is call the hypothalamus and is related to homeostasis. When a person becomes overheated the hypothalamus triggers a series of changes that promotes loss of body heat. Like when you sweat, sweat glands in the skin secret watery perspiration to cool the body off, another reason you need water. Also another homeostatic mechanism regulates the blood pressure in the blood blood vessels leading away from the heart. If your blood pressure goes to high up the brain signals the heart to fix it.
11. Describe how homeostatic mechanisms act by negative feedback. Receptors in the body detect when something is off balance and it turns on an effector. The effector then causes a reaction to restore the balance, when it's enouh to return the body into a state of balance the receptor turns off.
13. Distinguish between the axial and appendicular portions of the body. The axial portion includes the head, neck, and trunk. The appendicular portion includes the upper and lower limbs.
14. Distinguish between the dorsal and ventral body cavities, and name the smaller cavities within the each. The dorsal cavity is in the back and the ventral cavity is located in the front. Within the dorsal cavity is the cranial cavity and the spinal cavity. Within the ventral cavity is the thoracic cavity, plueral cavity, pericardial cavity, and the abdominopelvic cavity.
Part B
1. Name the body cavity housing each of the following organs:
a. stomach-Abdominal Cavity
b. heart-Pericardial Cavity
c. brain-Cranial Cavity
d. liver-Abdonimal Cavity
e. trachea-Thoracic Cavity
f. rectum-Abdominal Cavity
g. spinal cord-Spinal Cavity
h. esophagus-Thoracic Cavity
i. spleen-Abdonimal Cavity
j. urinary bladder-Pelvic Cavity
Chapter 3; pg 107-108
Critical Thinking:
1. Which process-diffusion, osmosis, or filtration-accounts for the following situations?
a. Injection of a drug that is hypertonic to the tissues stimulates pain.-Osmosis
b. A person with extremely low blood pressure stops producing urine.-Diffusion
c. The concentration of urea in the dialyzing fluid of an artificial kidney is kept low.-Filtration
Review Exercises:
2. Describe how the shapes of nerve, epithelial, and muscle cells are well suited to their functions.
3. Name the major components of a cell, and describe how they interact.
12. Describe the structures and functions of each of the following:
a. endoplasmic reticulum-Smooth ER-breakdown of lipids, soluble toxins in liver cells, and control of calcium release in muscle cell contraction; Rough ER-ribosomes lie on its surface and the proteins on these collect for transport throughout the cell.
b. ribosome-Are packets of RNA. Messenger RNA from the cell nucleus is moved along the ribosome while transfer RNA adds individual amino acid molecules to th lengething protein chain.
c. Golgi appartus-A stack of membrane-bound vesicles that are important in packaging macromolecules for transport elsewhere in cell.
d. mitochondria-Provides energy
e. lysosome-Contain hydrolytic enzymes necessary for inracellular digestion.
f. peroxisome-Responsible for protecting the cell against its own toxic hydrogen peroxide.
g. cilium-
h. flagellum-
i. centrosome-An area in the cell where microtubles are produced.
j. vesicle
k. microfilament-A protein filament found in golgi
l. microtubule-A protein filament found in golgi
13. Describe the structure of the nucleus and the functions of its contents. The nucleus is the control center of the cell. It contains DNA and is responsible for the unique characteristics of the cell.
14. Distinguish between diffusion and facilitated diffusion.
Chapter 5; pg 167
Review Exercises:
1. Define tissue.-A group of cells performing a similar function.
2. Name the four major types of tissue found in the human body.-Epithelium, Connective, Muscle, and Nervous Tissue
12. Describe the general characteristics of connective tissue.-Holds everything together; blood and bones are connective tissues.
Critical Thinking:
2. In health, body parts interact to maintain homeostasis. Illness may threaten homeostasis, requiring treatments. What treatments might be used to help control a patient's (a) body temperature, (b) blood oxygen concentration, and (c) water content?
4. If a patient complained of a stomachache and pointed to the umbilical region as the site of the discomfort, which organs located in this region might be the source of the pain? Intestines
Review Exercises
Part A:
2. Distinguish between anatomy and physiology. Anatomy is the study of the brain and the structues of the body, Physiology is the study of the functions of the structures.
4. List and describe ten characteristics of life. Movement, Responsiveness, Growth, Reproduction, Respiration, Digestion, Absorption, Circulation, Assimilation, Excretion
6. List and describe five requirements of organisms. Water-it transports substances within organisms and is important in regulating body temperature, Food-provides prgansim with necessary chemicals, Oxygen-releases energy from nutrients, Heat-a form of energy, Pressure-an application of force on an object or substance, needed for blood pressure in humans which keeps blood flowing through blood vessels.
7. Explain how the idea of homeostasis relates to the five requirements you listed in item 6. The control center of the brain is call the hypothalamus and is related to homeostasis. When a person becomes overheated the hypothalamus triggers a series of changes that promotes loss of body heat. Like when you sweat, sweat glands in the skin secret watery perspiration to cool the body off, another reason you need water. Also another homeostatic mechanism regulates the blood pressure in the blood blood vessels leading away from the heart. If your blood pressure goes to high up the brain signals the heart to fix it.
11. Describe how homeostatic mechanisms act by negative feedback. Receptors in the body detect when something is off balance and it turns on an effector. The effector then causes a reaction to restore the balance, when it's enouh to return the body into a state of balance the receptor turns off.
13. Distinguish between the axial and appendicular portions of the body. The axial portion includes the head, neck, and trunk. The appendicular portion includes the upper and lower limbs.
14. Distinguish between the dorsal and ventral body cavities, and name the smaller cavities within the each. The dorsal cavity is in the back and the ventral cavity is located in the front. Within the dorsal cavity is the cranial cavity and the spinal cavity. Within the ventral cavity is the thoracic cavity, plueral cavity, pericardial cavity, and the abdominopelvic cavity.
Part B
1. Name the body cavity housing each of the following organs:
a. stomach-Abdominal Cavity
b. heart-Pericardial Cavity
c. brain-Cranial Cavity
d. liver-Abdonimal Cavity
e. trachea-Thoracic Cavity
f. rectum-Abdominal Cavity
g. spinal cord-Spinal Cavity
h. esophagus-Thoracic Cavity
i. spleen-Abdonimal Cavity
j. urinary bladder-Pelvic Cavity
Chapter 3; pg 107-108
Critical Thinking:
1. Which process-diffusion, osmosis, or filtration-accounts for the following situations?
a. Injection of a drug that is hypertonic to the tissues stimulates pain.-Osmosis
b. A person with extremely low blood pressure stops producing urine.-Diffusion
c. The concentration of urea in the dialyzing fluid of an artificial kidney is kept low.-Filtration
Review Exercises:
2. Describe how the shapes of nerve, epithelial, and muscle cells are well suited to their functions.
3. Name the major components of a cell, and describe how they interact.
12. Describe the structures and functions of each of the following:
a. endoplasmic reticulum-Smooth ER-breakdown of lipids, soluble toxins in liver cells, and control of calcium release in muscle cell contraction; Rough ER-ribosomes lie on its surface and the proteins on these collect for transport throughout the cell.
b. ribosome-Are packets of RNA. Messenger RNA from the cell nucleus is moved along the ribosome while transfer RNA adds individual amino acid molecules to th lengething protein chain.
c. Golgi appartus-A stack of membrane-bound vesicles that are important in packaging macromolecules for transport elsewhere in cell.
d. mitochondria-Provides energy
e. lysosome-Contain hydrolytic enzymes necessary for inracellular digestion.
f. peroxisome-Responsible for protecting the cell against its own toxic hydrogen peroxide.
g. cilium-
h. flagellum-
i. centrosome-An area in the cell where microtubles are produced.
j. vesicle
k. microfilament-A protein filament found in golgi
l. microtubule-A protein filament found in golgi
13. Describe the structure of the nucleus and the functions of its contents. The nucleus is the control center of the cell. It contains DNA and is responsible for the unique characteristics of the cell.
14. Distinguish between diffusion and facilitated diffusion.
Chapter 5; pg 167
Review Exercises:
1. Define tissue.-A group of cells performing a similar function.
2. Name the four major types of tissue found in the human body.-Epithelium, Connective, Muscle, and Nervous Tissue
12. Describe the general characteristics of connective tissue.-Holds everything together; blood and bones are connective tissues.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Organization of Human Body Worksheet
1. Explain the difference between anatomy and physiology. Anatomy is th study of the structures of your brain and body, physiology is the study of the functions of the structures
2. Please organize the following structures in order from smallest to largest: system, tissue, organ, and cell. Cell, Tissue, Organ, and System
3. In the term physiology the suffix -logy means what? Study Of
4. What is the type of membrane that lines all of the passages leading the exterior? Mucous Membrane
5. What do you call a mass of cells that all perform the same function? Tissue
6. What type of tissue is specialized for the conduction of nerve impulses? Nerve Tissue
7. The term epidermis contains a prefix and a root term. What is the root in this word and what does it mean? What is the prefix in this word and what does it mean? Derm-skin; Epi-upon, at, in additon
8. The term cavity appears frequently in this lesson. What does it mean? A cavity is any hole or hallow area.
9. Name the four main types of tissue and describe their function. Epidermis-covers entire body; Connective tissue-supports and protects; Muscle-specialized for contraction; Nerve-specialized for the conduction of neural impulse
10. A cell is made of cytoplasm except for the nucleus, which is made of tissue.
11. What type of membrane lines joint cavities and outer surfaces of bones? Fibrous Membrane
12. What is an organ system? When two or more tissues combine; A group of organs specialized to perform a major body program
13. Name the five types of membranes and where each is located. Cutaneous membrane- all over; Mucous Membrane-Lines all passage ways into the body; Fibrous Membrane-Lines all joints; Serous membrane-Lines closed cavities; Fascia Membrane-Covers muscles-blood vessels
14. What is the function of the cell membrane? The nucleus? To protect the cell. Control center of the cell.
15. The cutaneous membrane is made of two distinct layers. Name each of these layers and describe what they are made of. Epidermis-it’s harder skin n places where there’s more pressure. Dermis-lubricates hair and skin, regulates body temperature.
2. Please organize the following structures in order from smallest to largest: system, tissue, organ, and cell. Cell, Tissue, Organ, and System
3. In the term physiology the suffix -logy means what? Study Of
4. What is the type of membrane that lines all of the passages leading the exterior? Mucous Membrane
5. What do you call a mass of cells that all perform the same function? Tissue
6. What type of tissue is specialized for the conduction of nerve impulses? Nerve Tissue
7. The term epidermis contains a prefix and a root term. What is the root in this word and what does it mean? What is the prefix in this word and what does it mean? Derm-skin; Epi-upon, at, in additon
8. The term cavity appears frequently in this lesson. What does it mean? A cavity is any hole or hallow area.
9. Name the four main types of tissue and describe their function. Epidermis-covers entire body; Connective tissue-supports and protects; Muscle-specialized for contraction; Nerve-specialized for the conduction of neural impulse
10. A cell is made of cytoplasm except for the nucleus, which is made of tissue.
11. What type of membrane lines joint cavities and outer surfaces of bones? Fibrous Membrane
12. What is an organ system? When two or more tissues combine; A group of organs specialized to perform a major body program
13. Name the five types of membranes and where each is located. Cutaneous membrane- all over; Mucous Membrane-Lines all passage ways into the body; Fibrous Membrane-Lines all joints; Serous membrane-Lines closed cavities; Fascia Membrane-Covers muscles-blood vessels
14. What is the function of the cell membrane? The nucleus? To protect the cell. Control center of the cell.
15. The cutaneous membrane is made of two distinct layers. Name each of these layers and describe what they are made of. Epidermis-it’s harder skin n places where there’s more pressure. Dermis-lubricates hair and skin, regulates body temperature.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Anatomy Roots, Suffixes, and Preffixes
1. Root: adip
Meaning: fat
Term: adipose
Definition: Relating to animal fat
Sentence: Adipose tissue provides insulation.
2. Root: bio
Meaning: life
Term: biopsy
Definition: The removal and examination of tissue, cells, or fluids from the living body
Sentence: They did a biopsy on the dead body.
3. Root: capit
Meaning: head
Term: decapitate
Definition: To cut off the head
Sentence: The girl, sadly, was kidnapped and decapitated.
4. Root: cephal
Meaning: head
Term: cephalad
Definition: Toward the head or anterior end of the body
Sentence: the shoulders are cephalad to the waist.
5. Root: corp
Meaning: body
Term: corpus
Definition: the body of an animal or person, especially dead
Sentence: The people inspected the corpus.
6. Root: crani
Meaning: skull
Term: cranium
Definition: the part that encloses the brain
Sentence: Your cranium protects your brain.
7. Root: dent
Meaning: tooth
Term: dental
Definition: of or relating to the teeth or dentistry
Sentence: My mom is obsessed with teeth because she used to e a dental assistant.
8. Root: hist
Meaning: tissue
Term: histology
Definition: deals w/ the minute structure of animal and plant tissues
Sentence: I was interested in plant and animal tissues so I took histology in school.
9. Root: later
Meaning: side
Term: lateral
Definition: of, or relating to the side
Sentence: the lungs are located lateral to the sternum.
10. Root: ocul
Meaning: eye
Term: oculist
Definition: One skilled in treating diseases in the eye.
Sentence: the woman went to the oculist because she had a severe eye infection.
11. Root: oste
Meaning: bone
Term: osteoblast
Definition: A bone forming cell
Sentence: If it weren’t for the osteoblast we wouldn’t be able to repair broken bones.
12. Root: phag
Meaning: eat
Term: phagocyte
Definition: A cell that engulfs and consumes foreign material and debris
Sentence: The phagocyte helps protect you from invading microorganisms.
13. Root: pleur
Meaning: side
Term: pleura
Definition: The delicate serous membrane that lines each half of the thorax of mammals and is folded back over the surface of the lung of the same side
Sentence: If it weren’t for the pleura your lungs wouldn’t be protected.
14. Root: quad
Meaning: four
Term: quadriceps
Definition: The greater extensor muscle of the front of the thigh that is divided into four parts
Sentence: it hurt to walk because, while exercising, I pulled my quadriceps.
15. Root: stern
Meaning:
Term:
Definition:
Sentence:
16. Root: ab
Meaning: without
Term: abasia
Definition: Inability to walk due to muscle coordination.
Sentence: People in wheelchairs have abasia.
17. Root: ad
Meaning: toward
Term: adrenal
Definition: Of relating to or derived from the adrenal glands or their secretions
Sentence: She was always physically and emotionally stressed and when she went to the doctor she was diagnosed with adrenal fatigue.
18. Root: angi
Meaning: vessel
Term: angiography
Definition: the radiographic visualization of the blood vessels after injection of a radiopaque substance
Sentence: The girl was injected with a radiopaque substance, so she had a angiography done.
19. Root: auto
Meaning: self
Term: autograft
Definition: A tissue or organ that is transplanted from one part to another of the same body
Sentence: Surgeons prefer ceramic, autograft bone.
20. Root: centi
Meaning: hundred
Term: centimeter
Definition: one hundredth part of
Sentence: The short book is one centimeter thick.
21. Root: circum
Meaning: around
Term: circumflex
Definition: curving around
Sentence: Some blood vessels are circumflex.
22. Root: dextro
Meaning: right
Term: dextrad
Definition: To or toward the right side
Sentence: Her pain was dextrad of her body.
23. Root: epi
Meaning: upon
Term: epigastric
Definition: of, relating to, supplying, or draining the anterior walls of the abdomen
Sentence: Some diseases can cause epigastric pain.
24. Root: ex
Meaning: out of
Term: excision
Definition: the act or procedure of removing by or as if by cutting out
Sentence: The man had to have a surgical excision to get rid of his tumor.
25. Root: inter
Meaning: between
Term: interrenal
Definition: between the kidneys
Sentence:
26. Root: non
Meaning: not
Term: nonviable
Definition: not capable of living or developing
Sentence: most of the time, runts of a liter are nonviable.
27. Root: ortho
Meaning: straight
Term: orthopedic
Definition: marked by or affected with a skeletal deformity, disorder, or injury
Sentence: She was having problems with her knees and when she went to the doctor, she found out she needed to have orthopedic surgery.
28. Root: path
Meaning: disease
Term: pathology
Definition: The study of the essential nature of diseases and especially of the structural and functional changes produced by them
Sentence: I was very interested in diseases so I took pathology in school.
29. Root: pseudo
Meaning: false
Term: pseudopod
Definition: the temporary projection of the cytoplasm of certain cells
Sentence:
30. Root: sinistro
Meaning: left
Term: sinistrad
Definition: toward the left side
Sentence: Your ring finger is sinistrad to your right hand.
31. Root: cide
Meaning: kill
Term: aborticide
Definition: a drug that causes abortion.
Sentence: I strongly disagree with someone using aborticide, innocent babies don’t deserve to die.
32. Root: itis
Meaning: inflame
Term: hepatitis
Definition: inflammation of the liver
Sentence: The woman’s liver was inflamed because she had hepatitis.
33. Roots: logy
Meaning: study of
Term: histology
Definition: deals w/ the minute structure of animal and plant tissues
Sentence: I was interested in plant and animal tissues so I took histology in school.
34. Root: meter
Meaning: measure
Term: pedometer
Definition: An instrument usually in watch form that records the distance a person covers on foot by responding to the body motion at each step
Sentence: The women had to walk a mile each day, so she used a pedometer to keep track.
35. Root: plasty
Meaning: formed
Term: osteoplasty
Definition: plastic surgery on bone
Sentence: The woman had to get osteoplasty on her broken bone.
36. Root: scope
Meaning: examine
Term: otoscope
Definition: an instrument w/ lighting and magnifying systems used for visual examination of the tympanic membrane and the canal connecting it to the exterior of the body
Sentence: He couldn’t see the tympanic membrane with his own eyes, so he used an otoscope.
Meaning: fat
Term: adipose
Definition: Relating to animal fat
Sentence: Adipose tissue provides insulation.
2. Root: bio
Meaning: life
Term: biopsy
Definition: The removal and examination of tissue, cells, or fluids from the living body
Sentence: They did a biopsy on the dead body.
3. Root: capit
Meaning: head
Term: decapitate
Definition: To cut off the head
Sentence: The girl, sadly, was kidnapped and decapitated.
4. Root: cephal
Meaning: head
Term: cephalad
Definition: Toward the head or anterior end of the body
Sentence: the shoulders are cephalad to the waist.
5. Root: corp
Meaning: body
Term: corpus
Definition: the body of an animal or person, especially dead
Sentence: The people inspected the corpus.
6. Root: crani
Meaning: skull
Term: cranium
Definition: the part that encloses the brain
Sentence: Your cranium protects your brain.
7. Root: dent
Meaning: tooth
Term: dental
Definition: of or relating to the teeth or dentistry
Sentence: My mom is obsessed with teeth because she used to e a dental assistant.
8. Root: hist
Meaning: tissue
Term: histology
Definition: deals w/ the minute structure of animal and plant tissues
Sentence: I was interested in plant and animal tissues so I took histology in school.
9. Root: later
Meaning: side
Term: lateral
Definition: of, or relating to the side
Sentence: the lungs are located lateral to the sternum.
10. Root: ocul
Meaning: eye
Term: oculist
Definition: One skilled in treating diseases in the eye.
Sentence: the woman went to the oculist because she had a severe eye infection.
11. Root: oste
Meaning: bone
Term: osteoblast
Definition: A bone forming cell
Sentence: If it weren’t for the osteoblast we wouldn’t be able to repair broken bones.
12. Root: phag
Meaning: eat
Term: phagocyte
Definition: A cell that engulfs and consumes foreign material and debris
Sentence: The phagocyte helps protect you from invading microorganisms.
13. Root: pleur
Meaning: side
Term: pleura
Definition: The delicate serous membrane that lines each half of the thorax of mammals and is folded back over the surface of the lung of the same side
Sentence: If it weren’t for the pleura your lungs wouldn’t be protected.
14. Root: quad
Meaning: four
Term: quadriceps
Definition: The greater extensor muscle of the front of the thigh that is divided into four parts
Sentence: it hurt to walk because, while exercising, I pulled my quadriceps.
15. Root: stern
Meaning:
Term:
Definition:
Sentence:
16. Root: ab
Meaning: without
Term: abasia
Definition: Inability to walk due to muscle coordination.
Sentence: People in wheelchairs have abasia.
17. Root: ad
Meaning: toward
Term: adrenal
Definition: Of relating to or derived from the adrenal glands or their secretions
Sentence: She was always physically and emotionally stressed and when she went to the doctor she was diagnosed with adrenal fatigue.
18. Root: angi
Meaning: vessel
Term: angiography
Definition: the radiographic visualization of the blood vessels after injection of a radiopaque substance
Sentence: The girl was injected with a radiopaque substance, so she had a angiography done.
19. Root: auto
Meaning: self
Term: autograft
Definition: A tissue or organ that is transplanted from one part to another of the same body
Sentence: Surgeons prefer ceramic, autograft bone.
20. Root: centi
Meaning: hundred
Term: centimeter
Definition: one hundredth part of
Sentence: The short book is one centimeter thick.
21. Root: circum
Meaning: around
Term: circumflex
Definition: curving around
Sentence: Some blood vessels are circumflex.
22. Root: dextro
Meaning: right
Term: dextrad
Definition: To or toward the right side
Sentence: Her pain was dextrad of her body.
23. Root: epi
Meaning: upon
Term: epigastric
Definition: of, relating to, supplying, or draining the anterior walls of the abdomen
Sentence: Some diseases can cause epigastric pain.
24. Root: ex
Meaning: out of
Term: excision
Definition: the act or procedure of removing by or as if by cutting out
Sentence: The man had to have a surgical excision to get rid of his tumor.
25. Root: inter
Meaning: between
Term: interrenal
Definition: between the kidneys
Sentence:
26. Root: non
Meaning: not
Term: nonviable
Definition: not capable of living or developing
Sentence: most of the time, runts of a liter are nonviable.
27. Root: ortho
Meaning: straight
Term: orthopedic
Definition: marked by or affected with a skeletal deformity, disorder, or injury
Sentence: She was having problems with her knees and when she went to the doctor, she found out she needed to have orthopedic surgery.
28. Root: path
Meaning: disease
Term: pathology
Definition: The study of the essential nature of diseases and especially of the structural and functional changes produced by them
Sentence: I was very interested in diseases so I took pathology in school.
29. Root: pseudo
Meaning: false
Term: pseudopod
Definition: the temporary projection of the cytoplasm of certain cells
Sentence:
30. Root: sinistro
Meaning: left
Term: sinistrad
Definition: toward the left side
Sentence: Your ring finger is sinistrad to your right hand.
31. Root: cide
Meaning: kill
Term: aborticide
Definition: a drug that causes abortion.
Sentence: I strongly disagree with someone using aborticide, innocent babies don’t deserve to die.
32. Root: itis
Meaning: inflame
Term: hepatitis
Definition: inflammation of the liver
Sentence: The woman’s liver was inflamed because she had hepatitis.
33. Roots: logy
Meaning: study of
Term: histology
Definition: deals w/ the minute structure of animal and plant tissues
Sentence: I was interested in plant and animal tissues so I took histology in school.
34. Root: meter
Meaning: measure
Term: pedometer
Definition: An instrument usually in watch form that records the distance a person covers on foot by responding to the body motion at each step
Sentence: The women had to walk a mile each day, so she used a pedometer to keep track.
35. Root: plasty
Meaning: formed
Term: osteoplasty
Definition: plastic surgery on bone
Sentence: The woman had to get osteoplasty on her broken bone.
36. Root: scope
Meaning: examine
Term: otoscope
Definition: an instrument w/ lighting and magnifying systems used for visual examination of the tympanic membrane and the canal connecting it to the exterior of the body
Sentence: He couldn’t see the tympanic membrane with his own eyes, so he used an otoscope.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Anatomy Terms
Frontal plane- pertaining to the forehead
Sagittal plane- a plane or section that divides a structure into right and left portions
Transverse- at right angles
Medial- toward midline
Superficial- near the surface
Superior- pertaining to a structure that is higher than another structure
Inferior- situated below something else
Anterior- pertaining to the front
Posterior- toward the back
Distal- farther from the midline or origin
Proximal- closer to the midline
Flexion- bending at a joint to decrease the angle between bones
Extension- movement increasing the angle between parts at a joint
Pronation- movement of the palm downward or backward
Supine- rotation of the forearm so that the palm faces upward
Abduction- movement of a body part away from the midline
Adduction- movement of a body part toward the midline
Circumduction- movement of a body part, such as a limb, so that the end follows a circular path
Inversion- movement in which the sole of the foot is turned inward
Eversion- outward turning movement of the solo of the foot
Elevation- upward movement of a part of the body
Depression- downward displacement
Dorsal- the sensory branch of a spinal nerve by which it joins the spinal cord
Ventral- pertaining to the front or anterior
Interior-
Exterior-
Perpheral-
Lateral-pertaining to the side
Sagittal plane- a plane or section that divides a structure into right and left portions
Transverse- at right angles
Medial- toward midline
Superficial- near the surface
Superior- pertaining to a structure that is higher than another structure
Inferior- situated below something else
Anterior- pertaining to the front
Posterior- toward the back
Distal- farther from the midline or origin
Proximal- closer to the midline
Flexion- bending at a joint to decrease the angle between bones
Extension- movement increasing the angle between parts at a joint
Pronation- movement of the palm downward or backward
Supine- rotation of the forearm so that the palm faces upward
Abduction- movement of a body part away from the midline
Adduction- movement of a body part toward the midline
Circumduction- movement of a body part, such as a limb, so that the end follows a circular path
Inversion- movement in which the sole of the foot is turned inward
Eversion- outward turning movement of the solo of the foot
Elevation- upward movement of a part of the body
Depression- downward displacement
Dorsal- the sensory branch of a spinal nerve by which it joins the spinal cord
Ventral- pertaining to the front or anterior
Interior-
Exterior-
Perpheral-
Lateral-pertaining to the side
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
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Service Learning: DA's Office
Unique: I'm mixed with black, spanish and irish!
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