Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 1
FUNCTIONS
• Waterproofs, cushions, protects deeper
tissue
• Excretes salts & urea; pain, pressure
• Regulates body temp; synthesize vitamin
D
2-SKELETAL
ORGANS
• Bones, cartilages, ligaments, joints
FUNCTIONS
• Protects & supports body organs
• Framework for muscles & movement
• Hematopoiesis; store minerals
3- MUSCULAR
ORGANS
• Skeletal muscle (attached to bone)
FUNCTIONS
• Contraction & mobility (locomotion)
• Facial expression, posture
• Produce body heat
4- NERVOUS
ORGANS
• Brain, spinal cord, nerves, & sensory
receptors
FUNCTIONS
• Fast-acting central control system
• Responds to external/internal stimuli
via nerve impulses (electrical
messages)
5- ENDOCRINE
ORGANS
• Pituitary, thyroid, parathyroids,
adrenals, thymus, pancreas, pineal,
ovaries, testes…..etc.
FUNCTIONS
• Slow -acting control system
• Glands produce hormones that
regulate growth, reproduction,
metabolism,…. etc.
6- Circulatory
ORGANS
• Heart, blood vessels, capillaries &blood
FUNCTIONS
• Carries O2 nutrients, hormones, &
other substances to and from tissue
cells
• White blood cells protect against
bacteria, toxins, tumors
7- LYMPHATIC
ORGANS
• Lymphatic vessels, lymph nodes,
spleen, tonsils
FUNCTIONS
• Complements circulatory system by
returning leaked fluid back to blood
vessels
• Cleanses the blood; involved in
immunity
8- RESPIRATORY
ORGANS
• Nasal cavity, pharynx, larynx,
trachea, bronchi, & lungs
FUNCTIONS
• Keeps blood supplied with O2 &
removes CO2
• Carries out gas exchanges through
air sacs in lungs
9- DIGESTIVE
ORGANS
• Oral cavity, esophagus, stomach,
small intestine, large intestine,
rectum, anus (liver & pancreas)
FUNCTIONS
• Breaks food down into absorbable
units that enter the blood;
indigestible food eliminated as feces
10- URINARY (EXCRETORY)
ORGANS
• Kidney, ureter, urinary bladder,
urethra
FUNCTIONS
• Eliminates nitrogenous waste from
the body (urea & uric acid)
• Regulates water, electrolytes, & acid-
base balance of the blood
11- REPRODUCTIVE
ORGANS
• Male
– Seminal vesicles, prostate, penis,
vas deferens, testis, scrotum
• Female
– Ovaries, mammary glands, uterus,
vagina, uterine tube
FUNCTIONS
• Primary function for both sexes is to
produce offspring
• Male – testes produce sperm & male
sex hormones
• Female – ovaries produce eggs &
female sex hormones; mammary glands
for nourishment
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NIRM CRUDLES
Maintaining Life
DEGMMMRR
Digestion Excretion Growth Maintenance
Metabolism Movement Responsiveness
Reproduction
Digestion
• Digestion is the breaking down of ingested
foodstuffs to simple molecules that can be
absorbed into the blood. The nutrient-rich blood
is then distributed to all body cells by the
cardiovascular system.
• In a simple, one-celled organism such as an
amoeba, the cell itself is the “digestion factory,”
but in the multicellular human body, the digestive
system performs this function for the entire body.
Maintenance of boundaries:
• Every living organism must maintain its inside
distinct from outside.
• -All the cells are surrounded by a selectively
permeable membrane.
• -The body as a whole is enclosed and protected
by the integumentary system, or skin, which
protects our internal organs from drying out,
bacteria, heat, sunlight, and chemicals .
2-Movement
• It includes the activities promoted by the muscular
system , the skeletal system provides the bony framework
that the muscles pull on as they work.
• -Movement also occurs when substances such as blood,
foodstuffs, and urine are propelled through internal
organs .
• - On the cellular level, the muscle cell’s ability to move
by shortening is more precisely called contractility.
Responsiveness or
irritability,
• is the ability to sense changes (stimuli) in the
environment and then respond to them.
• -you involuntarily pull your hand away from the painful
stimulus .
• -When carbon dioxide in your blood rises to dangerously
high levels, your breathing rate speeds up.
Because nerve cells are highly irritable and
communicate rapidly with each other via electrical
impulses, the nervous system is most involved with
responsiveness. However, all body cells are irritable to
some extent.
Metabolism
• Metabolism is a broad term that includes all chemical
reactions that occur within body cells. It includes
breaking down substances into their simpler building
blocks (catabolism), synthesizing more complex cellular
structures from simpler substances (anabolism), and
using nutrients and oxygen to produce (via cellular
respiration) ATP, that power cellular activities.
• Metabolism depends on the digestive and respiratory
systems to make nutrients and oxygen available to be
distributed throughout the body. Metabolism is regulated
largely by hormones secreted by endocrine system
glands.
Excretion
• Excretion is the process of removing excreta (ek-
skre′tah), or wastes, from the body. – The
digestive system rids the body of indigestible
food residues in feces.
• -The urinary system disposes of nitrogen-
containing metabolic wastes, such as urea, in
urine.
• - Carbon dioxide, a by-product of cellular
respiration, is carried in the blood to the lungs,
where it leaves the body in exhaled air.
Reproduction
• is making a whole new person which is the major task
of the reproductive system.
• - When a sperm unites with an egg, a fertilized egg
forms, which then develops into a baby within the
mother’s body.
• - The reproductive system is regulated by hormones of
the endocrine system.
- Because males produce sperm and females produce
eggs (ova), there is a division of labor in the reproductive
process, and the reproductive organs of males and
females are different .
• - The female’s reproductive structures provide the site
for fertilization of eggs by sperm, then protect and
nurture the developing fetus until birth.
8- Growth is an increase in
size of a body part or the
organism. It is usually
accomplished by increasing the
number of cells. However,
individual cells also increase in
size when not dividing. For true
growth to occur, constructive
activities must occur at a faster
rate than destructive ones
II.Survival Needs
Survival needs include:
1-nutrients
Nutrients, taken in via the diet, contain the chemical
substances used for energy and cell building.
-Carbohydrates are the major energy fuel for body cells.
- Proteins, and to a lesser extent fats, are essential for
building cell structures.
- Fats also provide a reserve of energy-rich fuel.
- Selected minerals and vitamins are required for the
chemical reactions that go on in cells and for oxygen
transport in the blood. The mineral calcium helps to
make bones hard and is required for blood clotting.
2- Oxygen : All the nutrients in the world are
useless unless oxygen is also available.
Because the chemical reactions that release
energy from foods are oxidative reactions that
require oxygen, human cells can survive for
only a few minutes without oxygen.
Extrinsic Regulation
Activities of nervous system or endocrine system to
organ system that control or adjust the activities of
many others system simulatneously
Homeostatic regulation
Control Center
The Integration center which
receives and process the
information supplied by the
receptor and sends out command
3 components
Effector
A cell organ that respond to the commands of
the control center and whose activity either
opposes or enhances the stimulus
(thermostat-thermometer receptor)
The third component, the effector,
provides the means of response (output)
to the stimulus. Information flows from
the control center to the effector along the
efferent pathway. The results of the
response then feed back to influence the
stimulus, either depressing it (negative
feedback) so that the whole control
mechanism is shut off or enhancing it
(positive feedback) so that the reaction
continues at an even faster rate.
• Homeostatic control mechanisms are
TWO:
– Negative feedback mechanisms – the
net effect of the response to the
stimulus is the shut off of the original
stimulus or to reduce its intensity
• E.g. – body temp, blood chemical
levels
– Positive feedback mechanisms – tend
to increase the original disturbance
(stimulus) and push the variable
farther from its original value
• E.g. – ovulation, blood clotting,
birth
Negative Feedback Mechanisms
Most homeostatic control mechanisms
are negative feedback mechanisms. In
these systems, the output shuts off the
original stimulus or reduces its intensity.
These mechanisms cause the variable
to change in a direction opposite to that
of the initial change, returning it to its
“ideal” value; thus the name “negative”
feedback mechanisms.
A good example of a nonbiological
negative feedback system is a home
heating system connected to a
temperature-sensing thermostat . If the
thermostat is set at 20°C (68°F), the
heating system (effector) is triggered
ON when the house temperature drops
below that setting. As the furnace
produces heat and warms the air, the
temperature rises, and when it reaches
20°C or slightly higher, the thermostat
triggers the furnace OFF.
This process results in a cycling
of “furnace-ON” and “furnace-
OFF” so that the temperature in the
house stays very near the desired
temperature of 20°C. Your body
“thermostat,” located in a part of
your brain called the
hypothalamus, operates in a similar
fashion.
Positive Feedback Mechanisms
In positive feedback mechanisms, the
result or response enhances the original
stimulus so that the activity (output) is
accelerated. This feedback mechanism
is “positive” because the change that
occurs proceeds in the same direction as
the initial disturbance, causing the
variable to deviate further and further
from its original value or range.
In contrast to negative feedback controls,
which maintain many physiological
functions or keep blood chemicals within
narrow ranges, positive feedback
mechanisms usually control infrequent
events that do not require continuous
adjustments..
However, TWO familiar
examples of their use as
homeostatic mechanisms
are the enhancement of
labor contractions during
birth and blood clotting
The body’s ability to regulate its
internal environment is fundamental,
and all negative feedback
mechanisms have the same goal:
preventing sudden severe changes
within the body. Body temperature
and blood volume are only two of the
variables that need to be regulated.
There are hundreds!
Other negative feedback
mechanisms regulate heart rate,
blood pressure, the rate and
depth of breathing, and blood
levels of oxygen, carbon dioxide,
and minerals.
Anatomical Terminology
Prefixes
• Throughout this session you will see many
vocabulary words that are unfamiliar.
Hopefully by learning the following
prefixes this will enable you to associate
the unfamiliar term with the appropriate
body section.
Prefixes
• append
– To hang something
• cardi-
– heart
• cerebr
– brain
• cran
– helmet
• dors
– back
• homeo
– same
Prefixes
• logy
– The study of
• meta-
– change
• nas
– nose
• orb
– circle
• pariet
– wall
• pelv
– Basin, around
Prefixes
• stasis
– Standing still
• peri-
– around
• pleur
– rib
• super
– above
• tomy
– cutting
Relative Position
• Anatomical Position????
• is standing erect
• the face is forward
• upper limbs are at the sides
• the palms forward.
Relative Position
• Terms of relative position are used to
describe the location of one body part with
respect to another. They include the
following….
Superior/ Inferior
• Superior….??
• means a part is above another part or closer
to the head. (The thoracic cavity is superior
to the abdominopelvic cavity.)
• Inferior…???
• means a part is below another part or
toward the feet. ( the neck is inferior to the
head)
Anterior/Posterior
• Anterior-(aka Ventral)…???
• means toward the front. (the eyes are
anterior to the brain)
• Posterior-(aka dorsal)…???
• means toward the back. (the pharynx is
posterior to the oral cavity)
Medial/Lateral
• Medial…???
• relates to an imaginary midline dividing the
body into equal right and left halves. (the nose is
medial to the eyes)
• Lateral…???
• means toward the side with respect to the
imaginary midline. (the ears are lateral to the
eyes)
Ipsilateral/Contralateral
• Ipsilateral..??
• pertains to the same side (the spleen and
the descending colon are ipsilateral).
• Contralateral..??
• refers to the opposite sides. (the spleen and
gallbladder are contralateral).
Proximal/Distal
• Proximal…???
• is used to describe a part that is closer to the
trunk of the body or closer to another specified
point of reference than another part. (the elbow
is proximal to the wrist)
• Distal…???
• it means a particular body part is farther from the
trunk or farther from another specified point of
reference than another part. (the fingers are
distal to the wrist).
Superficial/ Peripheral
• Superficial..??
• means situated near the surface. (the epidermis is
the superficial layer of the skin)
• Peripheral…???
• also means outward or near the surface. Used to
describe the location of certain blood vessels and
nerves. The nerves that branch from the brain
and spinal cord are peripheral nerves)
Body Plans/Sections
Body Planes/Sections
• Sagittal??
• (median plane)- refers
to a lengthwise cut
that divides the body
into right and left
portions.
Body Planes/Sections
• Transverse ??
• (horizontal)- refers to
a cut that divides the
body into superior
and inferior portions.
Body Planes/Sections
• Coronal???
• (frontal)- refers to a
section that divides
the body into anterior
and posterior
portions.
Upper Region
• Left and Right upper regions are called???
• Hypochondriac Regions
• Abdomen
• Celiac
Abdominopelvic Quadrants and
Regions
• Acromial
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Forearm
• Antebrachial
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Space in front of the
elbow
• Antecubital
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Armpit
• Axillary
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Arm
• Brachial
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Cheek
• Buccal
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Wrist
• Carpal
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Head
• Cephalic
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Neck
• Cervical
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Ribs
• Costal….or
• Pleur
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Hip
• Coxal
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Leg
• Crural
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Elbow
• Cubital
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Fingers
• Digital
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Back
• Dorsum/Dors
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Thigh
• Femoral
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Forehead
• Frontal
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Reproductive Organs
• Genital
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Buttocks
• Gluteal
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Depressed area of the
abdominal wall near
the thigh…
• commonly called the
groin
• Inguinal
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Region of the lower
back…between the
ribs and the pelvis.
• Lumbar
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Breast
• Mammary
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Chin
• Mental
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Nose
• Nasal/Nas
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Lower posterior
region of the head..or
back of the head
• Occipital
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Mouth
• Oral
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Eye Cavity
• Orbital
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Ear
• Otic
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Palm of the Hand
• Palmar
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Front of the knee
• Patellar
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Chest
• Pectoral
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Foot
• Pedal
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Pelvis
• Pelvic
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Region between the
anus and the external
reproductive organs
• Perineal
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Sole of the foot
• Plantar
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Area behind the knee
• Popliteal
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Posterior region
between the hipbones.
• Sacral
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Middle of the thorax,
anteriorly
• Sternal
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Instep of the foot
• Tarsal
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Navel
• Umbilical
ANATOMICAL TERMS
• Spinal columns
• Vertebral
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NIRM CRUDLES