The name of the tissue/layer that covers the outer surface of the lungs.
What is the visceral pleura?
100
The term used to describe organs that perform both endocrine and exocrine functions.
What is 'heterocrine'?
100
The name of the region where the cell bodies of somatic motor neurons are housed.
What is the ventral/anterior horn?
100
The name of the weakest, but also the most abundant type of cartilage.
What is hyaline cartilage?
200
A: The mechanical pump that propels the blood through the vessels.
What is the heart?
200
The structure the epiglottis covers during swallowing.
What is the trachea?
200
The organ that breaks down glycogen to glucose in response to glucagon secretion.
What is the liver?
200
The longest and largest nerve in the human body.
What is the sciatic nerve?
200
The cell type that readily changes its shape or appearance depending on how stretched the epithelium becomes.
What is transitional epithelium?
300
Blood vessels that feature pores within each epithelial cell.
What are fenestrated capillaries?
300
The term used to describe the amount of air moved in or out of the lungs in one respiratory cycle, during normal rest inhalation.
What is Tidal Volume?
300
The hormone that is released in response to a decrease in blood pressure or volume, or an increase in certain electrolytes in the blood.
What is ADH/vasopressin?
300
A collection of sensory neuronal cell bodies in the posterior/dorsal root of a spinal nerve.
What is the dorsal root ganglia?
300
The name of the layer found at the most basal surface of the epithelium.
What is the basement membrane?
400
The circulation system responsible for transporting deoxygenated blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs, and then returning the newly oxygenated blood to the left side of the heart.
What is Pulmonary Circulation?
400
Inhalation of foreign pathogens can lead to infection of the lung tissue, which is often challenging to treat. These key organs in the upper respiratory tract play a role in blocking the path of inhaled pathogens, thus preventing potential infections.
What are tonsils?
400
The sense that is most likely to be damaged due to the presence of a pituitary tumour.
What is vision?
400
The lobe that would not be affected by a coronal cut through the centre of the telencephalon.
What is the occipital lobe?
400
The type of epithelium that secretes mucin, moves mucus via cilia, and moves oocytes through the uterine tubes.
What is ciliated simple columnar epithelium?
500
Type of blood that returns to the heart through the superior and inferior venae cavae.
What is deoxygenated blood?
500
The part of the respiratory tract that is associated with ‘ear popping’ on airplanes.
What is the nasopharynx?
500
The pituitary gland hormone that would be in excess leading to excess T3 and T4. (Give the full name.)
What is thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH)?
500
The name of the dura mater invagination that would be most affected by a tumor in the medial parietal lobe.
What is the falx cerebri?
500
The behaviour of epithelial cells as ‘gate keepers’ through their regulation of movement of materials into and out of the body.