Homeostatis Lab

Medical Terms

The medical terms contain to the body parts and how close they are together on your body. If they are closer together they are considered proximal and the farther they are from one another they are distal. You can remember distal because it sounds close to distance. An example of distal would be your foot to your knee because they aren't closely connected but somehow they are connected. One example of proximal would be your wrist to your hand because they are very close together. When you think of how your food your food is processed to cleanse your body after all the food that you eat, you have to think about metabolism. Most people know what this word means because it has to do with everyday life. The word superficial remind me of something being fake or not real, but for this certain subject it just means "on the surface" so it is visible to us. The word similarly related to this would be deep meaning that you can't see it. So superficial and deep aren't exactly what they sound like, but you just have to remember to flip the definitions to get it right. There are two parts of the body you have to remember and one is superior and inferior. Superior is the top half of your body such as your head and everything up there. The inferior part of your body would be the lower part of your body such as your feet. These words seem harder to remember but if you can just look at the words closely such as distal meaning close to distance and think of superficial as being the opposite of what it means to us now, you can keep track of what all these definitions.

Organizational levels. .

When you think of what really makes up the body, it comes to be a process of how smaller things turn into bigger elements one by one. First you have a chemical base that is atoms combined to form molecules. The cellular part of your body are cells made of those molecules made in the chemical process. The tissue in your body consists of cells made before this process. This tissue is then used to create the organs in your body structure. Organs are then used to make up the organ system creating them to work together in this system. All of these processes then make up the organismal which consists of the whole body structure. Creating all these elements of the body to work together and sort of combine or help out the body structure they have created over time.

Homeostasis

When I think about homeostasis I think of how your body reacts to how fast your body is moving based on what your doing to make it work harder or not at all. Such as when you are running,  your body is using more energy to keep it going but at the same time it is using other fluids in your body and making those levels lower until you contain those fluids again. The body works hard to maintain a norm, but eventually it   does not function the way it should due to the levels of glucose going down while you run or working out. Now when you just sit around, it takes a lot longer for your body levels to start going down because your body is not working as hard or burning as many calories in your body. Negative feedback is when your body is lacking levels of things such as glucose, but because your body stores it, it can produced the stored glucose and put it back into your blood stream. Eventually you will need to refuel yourself with glucose, but your body can keep its norm for awhile.