Anatomy and Physiology Basics Ch1

What is the primary focus of anatomy?

How is physiology related to the human body?

According to the principle of complementarity of structure and function, what does function always reflect?

Which theme of the course emphasizes the inter-relationship between environment and the body's response?

What best defines homeostasis?

How does homeostasis contribute to the human body?

What is the main focus of studying anatomy?

According to the text, what does physiology examine?

What does homeostasis involve?

'Adaptive nature of our bodies' emphasizes which aspect?

What is homeostasis?

What depends on specific form according to 'principle of complementarity of structure and function'?

Who is considered the Father of Western medicine?

During which time period was the study of anatomy outlawed?

Who performed vivisections of criminals around the 2nd century B.C.?

Which Greek physician is known for separating disease from superstition?

During which centuries were anatomists like celebrities and people paid to see dissections in large amphitheaters?

Which physician wrote 'the' anatomy text used for 1500 years after vivisecting pigs and primates?

What type of anatomy is the study of large, visible structures?

What type of plane passes through the body dividing it into left and right portions?

What term describes an effect that affects both sides equally?

Which region forms the main vertical axis of the body?

What is the term for a thin, double-layered membrane that lines the walls of the ventral body cavity and the outer surfaces of organs?

Which condition causes roughening of pleurae or peritoneum and leads to organs sticking together and dragging across one another, causing pain?

What do we call the space between the parietal and visceral layers of serous membranes?

Which system plays a major role in maintaining homeostasis by monitoring variables that can change, such as body temperature?

In homeostatic systems regulated by negative feedback, what is the resulting action in response to a stimulus?

Which type of feedback occurs much less frequently than negative feedback and reinforces a stimulus to continue moving a variable in the same direction until a climactic event occurs?

What is an example of an event that triggers positive feedback in the human body?

What is an example of a homeostatic variable in the human body?

What do we call factors that can change in the body, such as body temperature?

What is an example of a normal range for a homeostatic variable?

What is an example of a condition that arises due to homeostatic imbalance?

What did Hippocrates separate from superstition?

Who is considered the founder of anatomy?

During which time period was the study of anatomy outlawed?

Which physician wrote 'the' anatomy text used for 1500 years after vivisecting pigs and primates?

What was the primary focus during the Renaissance period?

Which anatomical study focuses on large, visible structures?

What did vivisections of criminals further?

What was outlawed during the Middle Ages?

'Slices' of body called sections or planes are exposed by which type of slice?

'Midsagittal (or median) plane' divides the body into left and right portions. What is another term for this plane?

Which directional term describes being away from the midline, on the other side of?

Which term describes a thin, double-layered membrane that lines the walls of the ventral body cavity and the outer surfaces of organs?

What is the main focus of studying physiology?

What does homeostasis involve?

According to the principle of complementarity of structure and function, what does function always reflect?

What term describes an effect that affects both sides equally?

Who is considered the Father of Western medicine?

What is an example of a condition that arises due to homeostatic imbalance?

What depends on specific form according to the 'principle of complementarity of structure and function'?

What do we call factors that can change in the body, such as body temperature?

'Adaptive nature of our bodies' emphasizes which aspect?

'Anatomy' studies the form and structure of the body, whereas 'Physiology' examines ____________.

'Complementarity of Structure and Function' states that function always reflects ____________.

What is the term for the space between the parietal and visceral layers of serous membranes?

Which directional term describes being away from the body's surface and towards the internal parts?

What is an example of an organ covered by the visceral serosa?

What occurs much less frequently than negative feedback and reinforces a stimulus to continue moving a variable in the same direction until a climactic event occurs?

What is the main focus of studying anatomy as emphasized in the text?

Which anatomical study focuses on the study of large, visible structures?

What theme of the course emphasizes the inter-relationship between environment and the body's response?

'Midsagittal (or median) plane' divides the body into left and right portions. What is another term for this plane?

'Slices' of the body called sections or planes are exposed by which type of slice?

'Pleurisy' is an inflammation of which serous membrane in the thoracic cavity?

Which physician is considered the Father of Western medicine as mentioned in the text?

What does diabetes serve as an example of as mentioned in the text?