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Superior (cranial)
- ✔- above
Inferior (caudal)
- ✔- below
Medial
- ✔- toward the midline
Lateral
- ✔- away from the midline
Proximal
- ✔- Closer to the point of attachment
distal
- ✔- away from the point of attachment
anterior/ventral
- ✔- front
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posterior/dorsal
- ✔- back of body
Deep
- ✔- away from the surface
Superficial
- ✔- near the surface
midsagittal plane
- ✔- divides the body into equal right and left sides
parasagittal plane
- ✔- offset from the midline or midsagittal plane
frontal plane
- ✔- Divides the body into front and back portions.
transverse plane
- ✔- horizontal division of the body into upper and lower portions
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oblique plane
- ✔- passes through the body at an angle
Homeostasis
- ✔- a range of body mechanisms; maintain balance in the body
What two types of feedback does the body use to maintain homeostasis?
- ✔- positive and negative feedback
negative feedback
- ✔- A primary mechanism of homeostasis, whereby a change in a physiological
variable that is being monitored triggers a response that counteracts the initial
fluctuation; bring back to baseline
Ex: blood glucose/insulin
positive feedback
- ✔- Feedback that tends to magnify a process or increase its output.
Ex: childbirth
atoms consist of
- ✔- protons, neutrons, electrons