Anatomy CMB2007 Exam Questions With 100% Verified Answers
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he tissue layer of cells lining the inner wall of the abdomen
and pelvis
What is systemic sepsis? - answerThe presence of bacteria in other tissue of the body
What are ureters? - answerA tube that carries urine down from the kidney to the bladder
What is the vermiform appendix? - answerA small ...
Anatomy CMB2007 Exam Questions With
100% Verified Answers
What is the 5th intercostal space? - answer✔The gap inferior to the 5th rib, superior to the 6th rib
What is adrenaline? - answer✔A sympotomatic catecholamins causing quickening of the heart
rate, strengthening of the heart's contraction and opening the bronchioles
What is aldosterone? - answer✔A steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex that regulates
the balance of salt and water in the body
When is aldosterone secreted? - answer✔In response to low salt
What does aldosterone bind to? - answer✔The mineralocorticoid receptor which upregulates
production of a protein preventing ENaC from being degraded
What does anterior mean? - answer✔Nearer the front
What is cortisol? - answer✔A steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex whch regulates
carbohydrate metabolism
What is fascia? - answer✔A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissues enveloping, seperating or
binding together muscles, organs and other soft structures of the body
What is the gall bladder? - answer✔A small pear-shaped muscular sac located ubder the right
lobe of the liver, secreted bile is stored
What is the inguinal ligament? - answer✔The tough fibrous ligament stretching between the
lateral edge of the pubic bone and the anterior superior iliac spine
What is the mediastinum? - answer✔The region in mammals between the pleural sacs containing
the heart and all of the thoracic visera except the lungs
Where is the medullary? - answer✔In the medulla od inner core
What does necrotic mean? - answer✔Dead
What is noradrenaline? - answer✔Both a neurotransmitter and a hormone with similar effects to
adrenaline
What is pericarditis? - answer✔Inflammation of the lining around the heart causing chest pain
and accumulation of fluid around the heart
What does posterior mean? - answer✔Nearer to back
What is the polymeric sphincter? - answer✔A ring of smooth muscle fibre around the opening of
the stomach into the duodenum
What is severe peritonitis? - answer✔Inflammation of the peritoneum
What is the peritoneum? - answer✔The tissue layer of cells lining the inner wall of the abdomen
and pelvis
What is systemic sepsis? - answer✔The presence of bacteria in other tissue of the body
What are ureters? - answer✔A tube that carries urine down from the kidney to the bladder
What is the vermiform appendix? - answer✔A small outpouching from the beginning of the
large intestine
What does superior mean? - answer✔Nearer to head
What does inferior mean? - answer✔Nearer to feet
What does anterior mean? - answer✔Nearer to front
What does posterior mean? - answer✔Nearer to back
What does medial mean? - answer✔Nearer to the median plane
What does lateral mean? - answer✔Farther from the median plane
What does proximal mean? - answer✔Nearer the trunk or point of origin
What distal mean? - answer✔Farther from the trunk or point of origin
What does superficial mean? - answer✔Nearer to or on the surface
What does deep mean? - answer✔Farther from the surface
What does dorsum mean? - answer✔Dorsal surface part of the hand or foot
What is the palm? - answer✔Palmar surface of the hand
What is the sole? - answer✔Plantar surface of the foot
What best describes the anatomical position? - answer✔Looking forwards, standing upright,
palms forward, feet pointing forwards
What best describes the median plane? - answer✔The median plane runs from the from the back
of the body from head to toe dividing it into two equal halves to each side
What best describes the sagittal plane? - answer✔The sagittal plane is lateral of the median
plane, it divides the body into two unequal parts on each side
What best describes the coronal plane? - answer✔The coronal plane runs from one side of the
body dividing it into a front and back part, the parts may be unequal or equal
How many cervical vertebrae are there and what are they called? - answer✔7, C1-C7
How many thoracic vertebrae are there and what are they called? - answer✔12, T1-T12
How many lumbar vertebrae are there and what are they called? - answer✔5, L1-L5
How many sacral vertebrae are there and what are they called? - answer✔5, S1-S5
What are the top three regions of the abdomen called from left to right? - answer✔Right
hypochondrium, epigastrum, left hypochondrium
What are the middle three regions of the abdomen called from left to right? - answer✔Right
lumbar, umbilical, left lumbar
What are the bottom three regions of the abdomen called from right to left? - answer✔Right iliac
fossa, hypogastrium, left iliac fossa
What is the top plane of the abdomen called? - answer✔Transpyloric plane
What is the bottom plane of the abdomen called? - answer✔Transtubercular plane
What are the lines separating the abdomen into columns called? - answer✔Midclavicular
What does the skeleton consist of? - answer✔Bones and cartilage
What are the main functions of the skeleton? - answer✔- protection of major organs
- forming the mechanical basis for movement
- haemopoesis
- storage of salts in the bone
What are the two types of mature bone? - answer✔Compact and spongy
What are characteristics of compact bone? - answer✔Strong, dense and covers all the bones in
the body
What are the characteristics of spongy bone? - answer✔Less dense with numerous air spaces and
forms the core most bones, except when replaced by a medullary cavity
What are the three types of cartilage? - answer✔- hyaline cartilage
- fibrocartilage
- elastic cartilage
What is hyaline cartilage? - answer✔Most widely present in the body, in adults it is articulart
cartilage in joints and in the respiratory system
What is fibrocartilage? - answer✔Found at articular discs within joints, in invertebral discs and
around the edge of ball and socket to enlarge the surface area of the socket
What is elastic cartilage? - answer✔Highly resilient due to the elstic fibres contained in structure,
found in external ear, auditory tube, epiglottis and parts of the larynx
What is osteoporosis? - answer✔A disease of ageing characterised by a decrease in bone mass
and a decrease in bone strength with no change in the proportion of calcified to uncalcified bone
material
What is the head of the femur? - answer✔The most proximal part of the femur or thigh which
articulates with the pelvis at the acetabulum
What is the neck of the femur? - answer✔Joins the head of the femur to the shaft of the femur or
thigh bone
What is osteomalacia? - answer✔Soft bones often caused by vitamin deficiency
What is the pelvis divided into? - answer✔Greater and lesser pelvis
What does the greater pelvis lie between? - answer✔The two large ilium bones
Where is the lesser pelvis? - answer✔Deep in the pubic bone
What is the location of the heart? - answer✔Extends from T5 superiorly to T9 inferiorly
Where is the apex of the heart located? - answer✔In the 5th intercostal space
Where is the right border of the heart located? - answer✔Deep to the right border of the sternum
What is the aorta? - answer✔The systemic outflow from the heart, rises from the left ventricle
and forms the arch at the level of T4
Where are the lungs most susceptible to injuries? - answer✔The superior section as it rises above
the level of the ribcage
Where are the lungs located? - answer✔Within the thorax, they extend from their apex just
above the first rib superiorly level with T1 to the diaphragm inferiorly level with T12 at their
most inferior point in the posterior thorax
Where do the lungs cross the midclavicular line? - answer✔Level with the 7th rib
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