Proximal

Toward the extremity (closer to the body)

Posterior

Back of a body structure

Lateral

Away from the middle

Distal

Away from extremity ( further from the body)

Anterior

Front of a body structure

Superior

My head is___to my feet. Another way to describe it would be up.

Inferior

My feet are___to my head. Another way to describe it would be down.

Medial

___would be the middle of the body structure.

True

In the eighteenth and

nineteenth centuries, cadaver bodies were usually prisoners who had been executed. T/F

Anatomy

___is the study of the structure of body parts and their relationship to one another

Anatomy

In Greek anatomy, this term literally means to cut up or cut open

Microscopic anatomy

___ is the study of minute anatomical structures assisted with microscopes, which includes histology (the study of the organization of tissues) and cytology (the study of cells)

Gross Anatomy

____is the study of body structures you can see with the naked eye

Physiology 

___is the study of the functioning of the body's structural machinery; how parts of the body work

Chemical Level

Simplest level of structural hierarchy- atoms- molecules-organelles

Cellular Level

Basic structural and functional units of life

Tissue level

Groups of similar cells with a common function; epithelium, connective tissue, muscle, nervous tissue

Organ level

An organ is a structure composed of at least two tissue types that performs a specific function for the body

Organ system level

Organs that cooperate with one another to achieve a basic function and purpose

Organismal level

Organ systems working together to achieve functions required for life

Homeostasis

Is the ability of the body to maintain relatively stable internal conditions despite ever changing external environment; a state of dynamic equilibrium where internal conditions change within relatively narrow limits

Axial part

Body is subdivided into two major areas- the head, neck and trunk is called___

Transverse Plane

Sagittal Plane

Coronal Plane