Unit 2 human body and disease

Question 1

What genetic disorder is associated w/ characteristic facial features, learning disabilities, & physical abnormalities?

Accepted Answer

Down syndrome

Question 2

What is control, maintenance of a constant level?

Accepted Answer

-stasis

Question 3

What position describes a body standing erect, palms and feet facing forward?

Accepted Answer

Anatomic

Question 4

True or false: Pathology studies the nature of disease

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

A specialist in the study of outbreaks of disease within a population group is known as pathologist

Accepted Answer

False

Question 6

The sagittal plane is also known as the midline.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

Which cavity protects the brain?

Accepted Answer

Cranial

Question 8

A congenital or developmental disorder is an abnormal condition that exists at the time of birth.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

Aplasia is the defective development of an organ or tissue

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

Lip/o means what?

Accepted Answer

fat

Question 11

Which plane divides the body into front and back?

Accepted Answer

Frontal

Question 12

Hyperplasia is the change in cell structure and orientation

Accepted Answer

False

Question 13

What is a malignant tumor that originates in glandular tissue?

Accepted Answer

Adenocarcinoma

Question 14

When Graft-versus-host disease occurs, there is a possibility of what?

Accepted Answer

rejection

Question 15

Which plane divides the body into upper and lower parts?

Accepted Answer

Transverse

Question 16

What cavity is the space formed by the hip bones that contains reproductive and excretory organs?

Accepted Answer

Pelvic

Question 17

What term means toward the head?

Accepted Answer

Cephalic

Question 18

What term means specialist?

Accepted Answer

-ololgist

Question 19

True or false: The umbilical region surrounds the umbilicus

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

What is a deviation from what is regarded as normal?

Accepted Answer

anomaly

Question 21

True or false: The diaphragm separates thoracic and abdominal cavities

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

What holds the organs in place within the abdominal cavity?

Accepted Answer

Peritoneum

Question 23

Distal means situated nearest the midline

Accepted Answer

False

Question 24

A communicable disease is one that is capable of being transmitted.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

Which cavity protects the heart and lungs?

Accepted Answer

Thoracic

Question 26

Physiology studies the body's...

Accepted Answer

Functions

Question 27

What transmission is the spread of a disease through passing of contaminated blood?

Accepted Answer

Blood-borne

Question 28

True or false: Dorsal means back

Accepted Answer

True

Question 29

What does anatomy study?

Accepted Answer

Structures

Question 30

Which genetic disorder affects the respiratory system?

Accepted Answer

Cystic fibrosis

Question 31

Which gland produces hormones?

Accepted Answer

Endocrine

Question 32

Sweat glands are exocrine glands that secrete chemical substances into ducts.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 33

What is the study of cells called?

Accepted Answer

Cytology

Question 34

What kind of transmission is the spread of certain diseases due to the bite of an insect or animal?

Accepted Answer

Vector-borne

Question 35

What is the surgical removal of a gland?

Accepted Answer

Adenectomy

Question 36

The genetic disorder characterized by progressive weakness & degeneration of skeletal muscles is Tay-Sachs disease.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 37

True or false: Stem cells can renew themselves

Accepted Answer

True

Question 38

Which genetic disorder affects the nervous system?

Accepted Answer

Huntington’s disease

Question 39

Dysplasia is the abnormal development of cells, tissues, or organs.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 40

What is the basic structural and functional unit of the body?

Accepted Answer

Cell

Question 41

True or false: Ventral means back

Accepted Answer

False

Question 42

True or false: Ventral means front

Accepted Answer

True

Question 43

Which region is above the stomach?

Accepted Answer

Epigastric

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