Correct Answers
Superior - Correct Answer Towards the head or above ⬆️
Inferior - Correct Answer towards the feet, or below ⬇️
Medial - Correct Answer Towards the midline ➡️
⬅️
Lateral - Correct Answer Away from the midline ⬅️
➡️
Posterior - Correct Answer behind, in back, or in the rear
Anterior - Correct Answer Front of the body (ventral)
Saggital plane divides body into - Correct Answer Right and left sides
Frontal plane divides body into - Correct Answer Posterior and anterior
Transverse plane divides body into - Correct Answer Superior and inferior
Proximal is - Correct Answer Closer to the point of attachment
Distal is - Correct Answer Further from the point of attachment
Cardiovascular system is made of what - Correct Answer Heart, blood vessels, blood
Blood flow - Correct Answer Right atrium, right ventricle, lungs, left atrium, left ventricle,
body, repeat
White blood cells are _____ - Correct Answer Leukocytes, fight disease/immune system
Red blood cells are _____ - Correct Answer Erythrocytes
Arteries carry blood _____ the heart - Correct Answer away from
Veins carry blood ______ the heart - Correct Answer Towards
Large to small - Correct Answer Veins, venules, arteries, arteries, capillaries
Hemoglobin does what? - Correct Answer Carry blood from lungs to body + returns with
carbon dioxide to lungs
Platelets help with - Correct Answer Blood clotting
, Lymph nodes have - Correct Answer One way flow of direction
Lymphatic capillaries are _____ - Correct Answer Entwined with cardiovascular
capillaries and absorb excess tissue fluids
Lymph nodes contain large numbers of white blood cells called ____ and macrophages
that fight invading microorganism - Correct Answer Lymphocytes
Systole is the - Correct Answer Maximum pressure of heart
Diastole is the - Correct Answer Relaxation of heart
Blood pressure is read as _____ - Correct Answer Systole/diastole mmHg
What carries deoxygenated blood to the heart? - Correct Answer Vena cava
What carries deoxygenated blood to the lungs? - Correct Answer Pulmonary arteries
Communication in the nervous system is through _____ - Correct Answer Neurons -
electoral pulses
Central Nervous System (CNS) controls the _____ - Correct Answer Brain and spinal
cord
Perphrial Nervous System (PNS) controls _____ - Correct Answer The body, carries
afferent to/sensory from the brain
Somatic system (PNS) is _____ and controls ______ - Correct Answer Voluntary,
skeletal muscles
Autonomic nervous system (ANS) is _____ and controls _____ - Correct Answer
Involuntary, cardiac muscles + smooth muscles + glands of organs
Neuron Anatomy - Correct Answer Cell body, dendrites, axon, axon terminal
Spinal nerves include _____ and _____ - Correct Answer Afferent and efferent
Body cells include _____ - Correct Answer Muscle, bones, skin cells
Sex cells are _____ - Correct Answer All unique to its own, and half the genetic material
Sperm travels in men through _____ - Correct Answer Testes, vas deferens, prostate
gland, seminal vessel, bulbourethal gland, urethra
Sperm travels in women through _____ - Correct Answer Vagina, uterus, fallopian
tubes, ovary