The Digestive
System
System
This is a mixture of water, mucus, and a digestive enzyme.
What is saliva?
The upper chamber of the heart
What is the atrium?
Humans have 206 of these
What are bones?
This organ filter and regulates the composition of blood.
What is kidneys?
Threadlike structures that make up muscle fiber
What is myofibrils?
This flap of tissue prevents food from entering the trachea.
What is the epiglottis?
These blood cells help defend the body against disease
What are white blood cells or leukocytes?
These bones are hollow and cylindrical and found in limbs
What are long bones?
This is the most common waste produced by the liver.
What is urea?
Muscles that bend joints
What are flexors?
The fluid that carries out chemical digestion in the stomach.
What is Gastric fluid?
The first phase of a heart beat when ventricles contract
What is the systole phase
Red or yellow soft tissue contained in many bones
What is bone marrow?
This is surrounded by a capillary bed capillaries then split into the glomerulus which receive blood from renal artery.
What is Bowman's capsule?
The point where muscle attaches to moving bone
What is the insertion?
What is digestion?
A series of pressure wavers within an artery caused by contractions of the left ventricle
What is a person's pulse
Located near the ends of long bones where bone elongation takes place
What is the epiphyseal plate?
This excretory organ that is part of the integument system removes wastes by sweat.
What is skin?
Temporary lack of oxygen availability to muscles that leads to lactic acid build up
What is oxygen debt?
Small openings that dot the mucous membrane
What are gastric pits.
The trachea branches into two of these that lead to each lung
What are bronchi?
This occurs when the immune system begins to attack body tissues
What is rheumatoid arthritis?
This makes up 2/3 of the kidney.
What is renal medulla?
These overlap in a relaxed muscle
What are the actin and myosin filaments?