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Alcmaeon

First significant contribution, first to practice dissection, first scientific discoveries in field of anatomy

Galen

Chief physician to gladiators, studied wounds, dissection of apes and pigs, demonstrated living arteries contain blood

Leonardo de Vinci

Anatomical drawings, dissected 30 human corpses, ordered to stop by pope

Vesalius

Showed inaccuracies of Galen's theories

Harvey

One of greatest breakthroughs in understanding human body, blood pumped endlessly round very precisely

Malpighi

Discovered capillaries, pioneered use of microscope

Anatomy

Refers to science which deals with form and structure of all organisms

Physiology

Study of integrated functions of body and functions of all its parts

Pathology

Study of disease of body

Pharmacology

Science of drugs

Gross anatomy

Study of form and relations of structures of body that can be seen with unaided eye

Comparative anatomy

Study of structures of various species of animals

Microscopic anatomy

Study of those cells and tissues that can only been seen with a microscope

Directional terms

Frames of reference in relation to animal itself and applies regardless of position or direction of animal

Cranial

Meaning towards head

Caudal

Toward tail

Rostral

Used with caudal within head to mean toward nose or toward tail

Dorsal/Posterior

Toward or beyond backbone or vertebral column

Ventral/Anterior

Toward front or underside

Medial

Close to or toward median plane

Lateral

Away from median plane

Median plan

Imaginary plane passing through body craniocaudally which divides body into equal right and left halves

Sagittal plane

Any plane parallel to median plane

Transverse plane

At right angles to median plane and divides body into cranial and caudal segments

Horizontal plan

At right angles to both median plane and transverse planes

Dorsal cavity

Cranial, spinal

Ventral cavity

Thoracic, abdominopelvic

Parietal

Walls of cavity

Visceral

Covering of an organ

Cranial cavity

Inside skull, included the brain

Spinal cavity

Consists of spinal column connecting to cranial cavity

Thoracic cavity

Contains esophagus, trachea, lungs, heart, and aorta

Pleural cavity

Area surrounding the lungs

Mediastinum cavity

Area between lungs

Abdominal cavity

Contains stomach, intestines, liver, spleen, gallbladder, pancreas, ureters, kidney

Pelvic cavity

Contains urinary bladder, urethra, part of large intestine and rectum, uterus, vagina, prostate

Cyto

Refers to cells

Histo

Refers to tissue

Myo

Refers to muscle

Neur

Refers to nerve

Gen

Agent that causes something

Genic

Agent that produces something

Ologist

One who studies/practices

Pathy

Disease

Ectomy

Remove of specific part of body

Osis

Abnormal condition

Cells

Smallest unit of life, preform all activities necessary to maintain life

Tissues

Made up of a group cells that have similar structure that function together as unit

Epithelial

Barrier between underlying tissue and environment

Connective

Binds/supports/storage/protection of other tissues, ligaments, tendons, bones, adipose tissue, cartilage, collagen

Muscle

Movement/support, largest cells, cardiac, smooth, striated

Nervous

Connects sensory structures to motor structures

Organs

Collection of tissued that structurally form functional unit, serve a common or specific function

System

Is a group of organs organized for common purpose

Integumentary system

Largest organ that forms physical barrier between environment and internal environment that serves to protect and maintain

Skeletal muscle

Body's central framework

Muscular system

Composed of muscle cells and tissues that brings about movement of an organ or body group

Nervous system

Body's command center, originating from brain

Endocrine system

Glands and organs that make hormones and release them directly into blood to travel to target organ or tissue

Cardiovascular system

Circulatory system

Lymphatic/immune system

Tissues and organs that carry WBC that fight infections/diseases

Respiratory system

Network or organs and tissues associated with breathing

Digestive system

Organs that take in food and liquids and break them down to allow for absorption

Urinary system

Organs that make urine and remove it from body

Reproductive system

Tissues, glands, and organs involved in producing offspring

Cell membrane

Physical isolation, regulates exchange between environment, sensitivity, structural support, selectively permeable

Cytoplasm

Mostly water with chemical compounds in solution or colloids, medium of support between nucleus and cell membrane

Nucleus

Control center of brain, nuclear membrane has pores to allow substances passage, chromatin genetic material inside nucleoplasm

Nucleolus

Site of ribosome formation

Lysosome

Vessel stored with digestive enzymes

Endoplasmic reticulum

Skeleton of cell, system of membranes that makes up channels, connects with outer nuclear and cell membranes, synthesis, storage, transport, detoxification

Cisternae

Sac like or channel like cavities, reservoir for water

Ribosome

Distributed throughout cytoplasm, attached to rough ER, no membrane covering, site of protein synthesis

Golgi apparatus

Concentration and collection of cellular compounds, storage warehouse, carbohydrates synthesis site, synthesis and packaging of secretions, renewal and modification of cell membrane

Mitochondria

Powerhouse, cellular respiration

Centrioles

Found near nucleus, part of mitosis, form spindle fibers during cell division, guide duplicated chromosomes to daughter cells

Water

Most abundant substance in cell, universal solvent, transport of materials, absorbed and reduced heat, protects body structure

Carbon dioxide

Waste of cellular respiration, used in photosynthesis to produce usable energy sources, must be removed quickly from cells, carbon in molecules comes from CO2 gas, acidic

Molecular oxygen

Formed from covalent bond of 2 oxygens, required by all organisms that breathe air, necessary to convert food into ATP, level in atmosphere is 21%, neutral

Ammonia

By product of amino acid breakdown, toxic, converted to urea in liver

Mineral salts

Composed of small ions

Unsaturated fats

Fatty acids have one or more double covalent bonds

Saturated fat

Fatty acids have single covalent bonds

Diffusion

Movement of molecules from area of high concentration to low concentrations, accelerated by increased temperatures

Brownian movement

Random collision of diffusing molecules

Osmosis

Movement of water through semipermeable membrane from high concentration to low concentrations

Isotonic solutions

Salt concentration is same outside cell as inside

Hypotonic solution

Salt concentration inside cell is higher than outside cell

Hypertonic solution

Salt concentration higher outside cell then inside

Active transport

Used to obtain sugars, amino acids, larger proteins and fats, molecules go from areas of low concentration to areas of high concentration, needs energy in form of ATP

Hypertrophy

Increase in cell size beyond normal

Hyperplasia

Increase in size of structure because of increase in number of cells

Atrophy

Decrease in size of cells

Aplasia

Failure of tissue to develop

Hypoplasia

Incomplete or.defectivr development of tissue

Reproduction

Ability to produce more cells that are essentially same as original

Phagocytosis

Engulfing of material by surrounding it

Pinocytosis

Material has contact of is absorbed to cell wall

Metabolism

Cellular utilization essentially entailing oxidation of carbon compounds forming

Anabolic

Building of substances from different or less complex precursors, uses energy

Catabolic

Break down of substances to their end products with production of energy for utilization, storage, or heat

Excretion

Release of waste products

Secretion

Release of useful products

Irritability

Ability to respond to stimuli

Conductivity

Ability to transmit an impulse

Contractility

Ability to shorten in one direction

Squamous

Flat

Cuboidal

Cube shaped

Columnar

Tall and rectangular

Simple

One cell layer

Stratified

Several layers

Pseudostratified

Appears to be several layer but it is not

Transitional

Several layers of easily stretched cells

Mucous membrane

Muscus production

Exocrine glands

Simple and compound

Endocrine

Hormone secretion

Endothelium

Lines vessels

Mesothelium

Lines great cavities

Loose

Filled space between and oenetrates organes

Areolar

Injury repair, phagocytosis, inflammatory response

Adipose

Fat storage

Reticular

Framework

Dense regular arrangement

Tendons, ligaments, aponeuroses

Dense irregular arrangement

Muscle sheaths, joint capsules, fascia

Cartilage

Cells called chrondrocytes, hyaline, fibrocartilage, elastic

Bone

Compact, cancellous, mineral salts

Teeth

Dentin, enamel

Blood

Fluid portion and formed elements

Lymphoid

Antibody production and disease protection

Reticuloendothelial system

Phagocytosis, Kupffer cells, macrophage, neuroglia

Synovial

Lines joints

Smooth muscle

Spindle shaped, mono nucleated (centrally located) and not striated, in voluntary, peristalsis

Skeletal muscle

Multinucleated (laterally located) and striated, actin and myosin, voluntary, individual nerve supply, movement by pulling on bones

Cardiac muscle

Cardiocyte, mostly mono nucleated (centrally located) and striated, cylindrical shape, involuntary

Neurons

Conducting cells, very long

Cell body

Contains nucleus

Dendrites

Root like extension that receive stimuli

Axons

Long thin extension ls that transmit impulse

Neuroglia

Supporting cells

Nervous tissue

Makes up brain, spinal cord and nerves, most highly organized tissue of body, controls and coordinates body activity