Which term refers to the act or process of increasing the caliber (i.e., diameter) of an air tube diverging from the trachea?
bronchodilation
bronchopension
bronchostriction
bronchotribution
What does an arrector pili muscle do?
open the eyelids
flare the nostrils
cause hairs to stand on end
close the mouth
Which term indicates the renewal of vital activities?
remollification
respiration
revivescence
recremation
Which instrument is used for recording constantly varying signal voltages, so called because of the way it charts an electrical "swinging" back and forth?
oscilloscope
ossiscope
oriscope
operascope
Which word means "hanging loosely upon"?
predulous
pendulous
passeous
pileous
What is astrigency?
the quality of causing contraction
the tendency to breathe
the act of stretching out in a long line
the ability to build up or construct
Which term describes the condition (as of an orifice or tubular structure) of being stretched beyond the normal dimensions?
extrarosion
suspension
aperture
dilatation
Which term means "the derivation by an organism of elements essential for its existence from larger organisms of other species which it does not destroy"?