Chapter One Vocab

Skin, Hair, Nail

Bones, cartilage, ligaments

Skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscles

Brain, spinal cord, periperal nerves

Glands (pancreas, adrenals, pituitary)

Heart, blood vessels

Lungs, Trachea, Pharynx

Lymph Nodes, thymus, spleen

Stomach, Intestines, esophagus

Kidneys and Bladder

Testes or ovaries

Toward the front/ belly

Toward the back

Toward the head

Toward the tail

Toward the midline

toward the sides

Near the surface of the body or organ

Toward the center of the body/organ

Above some other body part

Below some other body part

Face Up

Face Down

Elbow, Forearm

Wrist

Chest, Breast

Neck, Cervix

Head

Before

Cheek

Hip

Buttocks

Armpit

The abdominal pelvic cavity

The sum of total chemical reactions in the body that break substances down and build them up.

The branch of science dealing w/ body parts

Functions of body parts.

Contained in all living cells of humans that carry out a specific activity

Living things

Production of new organisms and cells

Obtaining oxygen, removing CO2, releasing energy from food. (Some organisms don’t use oxygen.)

Breakdown of food substances into simpler forms that can be absorbed and used.

Passage of substances through membranes and into bodily fluids.

Movement of substances in bodily fluids.

Changing absorbed substances into chemically different forms

Removal of waste products by metabolic reactions.

Maintaining a stable internal environment

deviation from homeostasis is corrected

portions in which the human body can be divided

Axial including upper and lower limbs

The membrane attached to the cavity

above the diaphragm in the chest.

the space between visceral and parietal peritoneal membranes

Serous membrane surrounding the heart.

organs within thoracic and abdominopelvic cavity.