Digestion
Circulation
Odds and Ends
Respiration
Nervous System
100
The rhythmic wave of smooth muscle contraction that moves food through the digestive system
What is a Peristalsis?
100
The heart has two thin-walled elastic chambers that receive incoming blood from the large veins.
What are the atria (an atrium)?
100
The name given to the steady state that the body's organ systems strive to maintain.
What Homeostasis ?
100
The airway tube that connects the larynx to the lungs
What is the Trachea?
100
This slender structure is the part of the nerve cell that carries the signal away from the cell body.
What is axon?
200
This digestive chemical is secreted by the liver and stored until needed in the gallbladder.
What is Bile?
200
These small blood vessels come in contact with the alveoli of the lungs, where gas exchange takes place.
What are capillaries?
200
Two of the major body planes of the human body are Transverse (horizontal) and Saggital (medial). The third body plane is called ______________.
What is Coronal (frontal)?
200
Trap dust particles and pathogens like bacteria and viruses.
What is the role of mucus?
200
These nerves carry information from internal or external sensors toward the brain or spinal cord.
What are sensory nerves?
300
The stomach has thick bands of smooth muscle around its entrance and exit. These clamp-like bands of muscle are called ________.
What is a sphincter?
300
True or False "All arteries carry oxygenated blood."
What is False?
300
This body system enables communications to occur between body parts via chemicals secreted into the bloodstream.
What is Endocrine?
300
Humans have about 450 million of these small air exchange chambers
What are alveoli?
300
This name is given to the junction between a nerve cell and a muscle cell.
What is neuromuscular junction?
400
This organ secretes bicarbonate buffers and digestive enzymes to help break down complex organic molecules in our food.
What is the pancreas?
400
These chambers of the heart have thick muscular walls which pressurize outgoing blood.
What are Ventricles?
400
These paired organs filter the blood and remove nitrogen-based wastes resulting from protein metabolism.
What are the kidneys?
400
This structure has the job of sending food to the esophagus and air to the Trachea
What is the Epiglottis?
400
This part of the nervous system includes the brain and spinal cord
What is the Central Nervous System?
500
This anatomic feature is unique to the stomach and allows it to knead the food to mix it thoroughly with the stomach acids and protease enzymes.
What is the 3rd (diagonal) layer of smooth muscle?
500
This blood vessel leaves the left ventricle and distributes Oxygenated blood to the major arteries of the body.
What is the Aorta?
500
Relative body positions. Name the opposing position. A: Superficial <> __________ B: Proximal <> _________ C. Inferior <> _________
What are A) Deep, B) Distal, and C) Proximal?
500
This two-layered 'bag' surrounds the lungs, providing protection and lubrication to these delicate structures.
What are the pleura?
500
This is the name given to the 'bag' that surrounds the brain and contains cushioning and lubricating fluids
What are the Meninges?
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