Cardiovascular System Muscular System Respiratory System Skeletal System Digestive System
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What is Myocardial Infarction?
Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle
100
What is Contusion?
A region of injured tissue or skin in which blood capillaries have been ruptured; a bruise.
100
What is Visceral Pleura?
Thin membrane that surrounds lungs, provides lubrication.
100
What is an Articulation?
A joint; a point of contact between bone; cartilage; and bones, or teeth and bones
100
What is a Mouth/
Oral or buccal cavity
200
What is an Anemia?
Deficiency of rbc’s or of hemoglobin in the blood, resulting in pallor and weakness
200
What is Strain?
Overstretching or overexertion of a muscle
200
What is Exhalation?
When the diaphragm squishes lungs making them smaller, causing high air pressure in lungs, low air pressure outside lungs.
200
What is an Epicondyle?
A projection on a bone above a condyle serving for the attachment of muscles and ligaments
200
What is a Stomach?
The mixing and holding resevoir.
300
What is an Aneurysm?
Excessive localized enlargement of an artery caused by a weakening of the artery wall
300
What is Dislocation?
Displacement of a bone from a joint with tearing of ligaments, tendons, and articular capsules
300
What is Pneumothorax?
A collapsed lung.
300
What is a Spine?
A series of vertebrae extending from the skull to the small of the back, enclosing the spinal cord
300
What is Rugae?
Bumps, or ridges and valleys within the stomach.
400
What is Atherosclerosis?
Disease of the arteries characterized by the deposition of plaques of fatty material on their inner walls
400
What is Tenosynovitis?
Inflammation and swelling of a tendon, often caused by repetitive movements
400
What is Inhalation?
When the diaphragm flattens out, makes more space in lungs, causing a low air pressure inside lungs, high pressure outside.
400
What is Foramen?
A passage or opening; a communication between two cavities of an organ, or a hole in a bone for passage of vessels or nerves
400
What is Absorptive Cells?
A type of cell that absorbs nutrients from chyme.
500
What is Bradycardia?
An abnormally slow heart rate
500
What is Myositis?
Inflammation and degeneration of muscle tissue
500
What is Pleurisy?
The inflammation of the Visceral Pleura
500
What is a Condyle?
A round protuberance at the end of some bones, forming an articulation with another bone
500
What is Intestinal Glands?
A type of gland that secretes intestinal juice; a bacterial killing enzyme.






Human Anatomy Terms and Conditions

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