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- What is Anatomy?
- The Study Of The Structure Of An Organism And The Relationship of its Parts.
- What is Physiology?
- The Study of Body Function.
- What is dissection?
- The process of cutting apart.
- What is Pathology?
- The scientific study of disease.
- What are Cells?
- The smallest "living" units of structure and function in the body.
- What are tissues?
- organization of many similar cells that act together to perform a certain function.
- What are organs?
- A group of several different kinds of tissues arranged so that they can act together as a unit to perform a cetain function.
- What is a system?
- an organization of varying numbers and kinds of organs arranged so that they can together perform complex functions for the body.
- Supine?
- The body lying face upward.
- Prone?
- The body lying face downward.
- Superior
- Toward the head. {upper}
- Inferior
- Toward the feet. {lower}
- Anterior
- Front {ventral}
- Posterior
- Back [dorsal}
- Midsagittal Plane
- a cut or plane that divides the body or any of its parts in two equal halves.