AAMI Comprehensive Review Science ALL TERMS with Complete Solutions What is an accessory? - Correct Answer A lesser structure that resembles a similar organ in structure and function.What is albumin? - Correct Answer A protein found in blood plasma.What is the alimentary canal? - Correct Answer The digestive system tube from the mouth to the anus.What is an anastomosis? - Correct Answer A connection between vessels.What is anatomy? - Correct Answer The branch of science dealing with the study of the structure of the body.What does anterior (ventral) mean? - Correct Answer Before or in front of; refers to the front side of the body or structure.What is the appendicular skeleton? - Correct Answer The 126 bones that make up the pectoral girdle, upper extremities, pelvic girdle, and lower extremities.What is an articulation? - Correct Answer The connection between two or more bones; a joint.What is the axial skeleton? - Correct Answer The 80 bones composing the skull, vertebrae, thorax, and hyoid bone.What is bilateral symmetry? - Correct Answer The symmetry of paired organs or an organism whose right and left halves are similar images of each other.What does biliary mean? - Correct Answer Pertaining to bile.What is the biliary tract? - Correct Answer The organs (liver and gall bladder) and ducts that participate in the secretion, storage, and delivery of bile to the duodenum. 1 / 4
What is a bladder? - Correct Answer A membranous sac or receptacle for a secretion or excretion.What does buccal mean? - Correct Answer Relating to the cheek or mouth.What is cardiology? - Correct Answer The study of the heart.What is the carotid canal? - Correct Answer The canal or passageway in the temporal bone through which the internal carotid artery passes.What does central mean? - Correct Answer Situated at or pertaining to a center or central point.What is the colon? - Correct Answer The part of the large intestine beginning with the ascending colon and ending with the sigmoid colon.What are conchae? - Correct Answer Ridges in the walls of the nasal cavity.What is a condyle? - Correct Answer A curved protuberance at the end of a bone forming part of an articulation.What is the cortex? - Correct Answer The outer layer of an organ.Define curvature. - Correct Answer A normal or abnormal bending away.What does cystic mean? - Correct Answer Pertaining to a sac-like structure.What does deep mean? - Correct Answer Below the surface or toward the central part of a structure.What is detoxification? - Correct Answer Reduction of the harmful properties of a poisonous substance.Define distal. - Correct Answer Farther away from the point of attachment or from the trunk. 2 / 4
What does dorsal mean? - Correct Answer Posterior; toward the back.What is an eminence? - Correct Answer A prominence or projection, i.e., of a bone.What does endocrine mean? - Correct Answer Pertaining to a ductless gland that secretes directly into the bloodstream.What does exocrine mean? - Correct Answer Pertaining to a gland that delivers its secretion through a duct.What does external mean? - Correct Answer Pertaining to the exterior; the opposite of internal.What is the external auditory meatus? - Correct Answer The lateral, outer opening of the ear or auditory canal.What is a fontanel? - Correct Answer A temporarily unossified area on the surface of the cranium of an infant.Define fossa. - Correct Answer A shallow depression.What is a gland? - Correct Answer A secretory organ or structure that can manufacture a secretion.What is a heterocrine gland? - Correct Answer A gland that has both endocrine and exocrine functions.What is histology? - Correct Answer The study of tissues.Define inferior. - Correct Answer Beneath; lower; the undersurface of an organ or a structure below another structure.What does integumentary mean? - Correct Answer Relating to the outer surface of a structure, i.e., the skin and its components. 3 / 4
What does internal mean? - Correct Answer Within the body; within or on the inside; the opposite of external.What are the Islets of Langerhans? - Correct Answer Clusters of cells in the pancreas which produce insulin.What is a joint? - Correct Answer The connection between two bones; an articulation.What does lateral mean? - Correct Answer Pertaining to the side of the body; away from the median plane.What are lobes? - Correct Answer Well-defined parts of an organ separated by boundaries.What is the mandibular fossa? - Correct Answer The depression in the temporal bone into which the condyle of the mandible fits.Meatus - Correct Answer passage or opening through a bone Medial - Correct Answer pertaining to the middle; toward the median plane of the body Medulla - Correct Answer inner or central portion of an organ Nares - Correct Answer openings of the nose Nasal septum - Correct Answer partition that divides the nasal cavities Neurology - Correct Answer study of the nervous system Oral - Correct Answer pertaining to the mouth Orifice - Correct Answer entrance or outlet of any anatomical structure
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