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Basic Medical Term, the Human Body, and the Cardiovascular System
| Questions |
Answers |
| Toward the sides of the body |
Lateral |
| Near the surface of the body |
Superficial |
| The front of the body |
Anterior |
| Toward the midline |
Medial |
| Away from the center point of attachment |
Distal |
| Toward the back of the body |
Posterior |
| Near the center or point of attachment |
Proximal |
| The back side |
Dorsal |
| The front side |
Ventral |
| Far from the surface of the body |
Internal |
| Another name for the bodies steady state |
homeostasis |
| genetic test to determine biological parent |
paternity testing |
| CSF (from around the spinal cord) |
cerebrospinal fluid |
| joint fluid |
synovial fluid |
| fluid around the lungs |
pleural |
| origin of disease |
pathogenesis |
| determine impairment or intoxication |
blood alcohol levels |
| procedures requiring medical instrument inserted directly into body cavity or organ |
invasive |
| multiple blood tests on one sample are called |
test panel |
| Thin walls permit exchange of blood and fluids from surrounding tissues |
capillaries |
| Thinner walls than arteries |
Veins |
| Thicker walls than veins |
Arteries |
| anemia caused by medical treatment |
iatrogenic anemia |
| body's mechanism for forming all cellular elements in the blood |
hematopoiesis |
| medical name for red blood cells |
erythrocytes |
| medical name for white blood cells |
leukocytes |
| medical name for platelets |
thrombocytes |
