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Test Bank For The Human Body in Health and Illness 7th
Edition By Barbara Herlihy
This part of the humerus is closer to the elbow than to the axillary region -
ANSWER:Distal

Describe the relationship of the mediastinum to the diaphragm - ANSWER:Deep

The umbilical region is located - ANSWER:inferior to the diaphragm

The sternal area is - ANSWER:referred to as the breastbone area

Which of the following is not descriptive of the mediastinum - ANSWER:Dorsal cavity

The frontal plane - ANSWER:coronal plane

which of the following term best describes when a person sweats in order to
decrease body temperature - ANSWER:homeostasis

which of the following is true of these terms: sternal umbilical, patellar, and
antecubital - ANSWER:All can be viewed on the anterior body

These structures are located within the plural cavities the thoracic cavity, and the
ventral cavity - ANSWER:Lungs

These structures are located within the pericardial cavity, the mediastinum, and the
thoracic cavity - ANSWER:Heart and great vessels

The common element of the word pathology, pathogen, and pathophysiology is that
they all refer to - ANSWER:disease

adipose tissue - ANSWER:a type of connective tissue that stores fat

characteristic of osseous tissue including which of the following - ANSWER:Contains
hard mineral-containing intercellular matrix
contains osteocytes
is a type of connective tissue

with regard ti the pleura membranes - ANSWER:there is a visceral parietal pleural
membrane

The pleura and peritoneum - ANSWER:are serous membranes

Epithelial tissue is avascular, meaning that is - ANSWER:contains no blood vessels

, The intercellular matrix of connective tissue - ANSWER:can be hard, liquid, or gel-like
in consistency

which of the following is most apt to increase body temperature - ANSWER:Shivering

the stratum germinative - ANSWER:give rise to epidermal cells

The epidermal is nourished by the - ANSWER:blood vessels in the underlying dermis

which if the following is true of the stratum corneum - ANSWER:is the dead layer
that is sloughed off

which of the following best describes the function od the status germinativum -
ANSWER:mitosis

Secretion of the eccrine glad - ANSWER:lowers body temperature

Cyanosis occurs when - ANSWER:The blood in the cutaneous blood vessels is
unoxygenated

which of the following pertains to the therm apocrine sudorferous eccrine, and
sebaceous - ANSWER:Exocrine glad

shivering thermogenesis - ANSWER:increases body temperature

Blushing, flushing, and pallor are due to - ANSWER:change in blood flow through the
dermal blood vessels

which of the following is true of group of smooth muscle cells attached to a hair
follicle - ANSWER:called the arrestor pili muscles
causes goose bumps when contacted
contract in repose to fear and exposure to the cold temperature

which of the following is least descriptive of the sebaceous glads - ANSWER:sweat

with witch skin function are the words core and shell most concerned -
ANSWER:Thermoregulation

which of the following word root refers to nails - ANSWER:Onych/o, as in paronychia

pyrexia - ANSWER:fever

sling like structure that supports the heart - ANSWER:pericardium

Deliver oxygenated blood to the myocardium - ANSWER:coronary arteries

smooth, shiny, innermost lining of the heart - ANSWER:endocardium

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