Chapter 2 The Human Body in Health and Disease

Cytology is the study of the anatomy, physiology, and chemistry of the cell.

Homeostasis is the processes through which the body maintains a constant internal environment.

Medial means the direction toward, or nearer the midline.

A genome is the complete set of genetic information of an organism.

What do the prefixes end- and endo- mean?

What does the word part aden/o mean?

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

The sagittal plane is a vertical plane that divides the body into equal left and right and left portions.

What do the word part path/o and suffix -pathy mean?

What does the word part anter/o mean?

A gland is a group of specialized epithelial cells that are capable of producing secretions.

What does the word part adip/o mean?

The midsagittal plane also know as the midline divides the body into equal left and right halves.

A chromosome is a genetic structure located within the nucleus.

What do the suffixes -stasis and -static mean?

The frontal plane divides the body into

What does the suffix -ologist mean?

What do the word part cyt/o and suffix -cyte mean?

What do the word parts plas/i, plas/o and suffix -plasia mean?

Pathology is the study of disease: its nature and cause as well as the produced changes.

What is a pathogen?

What does the suffix -ology mean?

What does the word part caud/o mean?

What does the prefix exo- mean?

What does the word part cephal/o mean?

What does the word part hist/o mean?

The peritoneum is a multilayered membrane that protects and holds the organs in place within the abdominal cavity.

Connective tissue forms a protective covering for all of the internal and external surfaces of the body.

Genetic disorders are not inherited from parents.

The transverse plane is a horizontal plane that divides the body into superior and inferior portions.

What does the word part poster/o mean?

Stem cells are unspecialized cells that are able to renew themselves for long periods of time by cell division.

What are the two major body cavities?

Body Planes are imaginary vertical and horizontal lines used to divide the body into sections for descriptive purposes.

Epithelial tissue forms a protective covering for all of the internal and external surfaces of the body.