Integumentary System/Histology
Pigment that provides a darker tone to skin:
What is melanin
How many ventricles and how many atrium are in the heart of a human, respectively?
What is two ventricles
What is two atrium
Bile is produced in which organ and is stored in which organ, respectively.
What is the liver
What is the gallbladder
Part of the neuron that has a myelin sheath and carries an action potential
What is the axon
List 2/7 hormones produced by the pituitary gland
What is FSH, LH, ACTH, TSH, Prolactin, Endorphin, Growth Hormone, Oxytocin, Anti-Diuretic hormone.
Simple Squamous is found in what tissue and what is a function of simple squamous epithelium?
What is capillary walls and alveolar tissue.
What is gas exchange and protection.
The artery that exits from the heart with oxygenated blood
what is the aorta.
What two organs are connected by the ureter?
What is the kidney and bladder
When a cell is depolarizing what ion is entering into the cell
Sodium
What gland produces the hormones for the posterior pituitary gland?
What is the hypothalamus
Type of cell? used to produce mucus and is found in pseudostratified epithelium, located where?
What is a goblet cell
What is the respiratory tract
Which side of the heart has oxygenated blood. Which blood vessel carries blood from the lungs to the heart?
What is the left side
What is pulmonary veins
What two hormones affect the nephron and regulate blood pressure?
Aldosterone and Antidiuretic hormone
what are 2 functions of the parasympathetic nervous system
What is digestion, sleeping, lowering blood pressure and heart rate, and constriction of pupils.
Double Jeopardy
A patient arrives at the ER with pain when opening and closing his mouth. The joint involved is the only movable joint of the skull and is formed between these two bones.
What is the mandible and temporal bone?
Double Jeopardy
A patient presents after spilling boiling water on his arm. The burn site shows black, charred patches, and the patient reports no pain in the area due to nerve damage.
What is the degree of the burn and what is the typical treatment?
What is a third degree burn
What is skin grafting
A patient presents with shortness of breath, fluid in the lungs, and swelling of the legs and ankles. These symptoms suggest heart failure due to stenosis of a valve on the left side of the heart that normally allows blood to leave the left ventricle and enter the body. This valve is most likely this one.
What is the aortic valve?
Double Jeopardy
The patient is on a fast and is experiencing low blood sugar levels
What hormone is produced to increase the blood sugar and from which organ is it produced?
What is glucagon
What is pancreas
what are the cells responsible for making myelin sheath in the CNS and PNS
What is oligodendrocytes
What is Schwann cells
In females, the anterior pituitary releases two key hormones that regulate ovulation and the menstrual cycle: one stimulates growth of ovarian follicles, and the other triggers ovulation and corpus luteum formation. These two hormones are…
What is Follicle stimulating hormone and Luteinizing hormone?
The epidermis layers of thin skin from superficial to deep are:
Stratum Corneum
Stratum Granulosum
Stratum Spinosum
Stratum Basale
What are some physiological reasons why hemoglobin loses affinity for oxygen?
What is an increase in carbon dioxide
What is a decrease in pH
What is a increase in 2-3 BPG
What is an increase in body temperature
A 16-year-old boy comes to the ER with sharp pain in the lower right side of his abdomen, fever, and nausea. Doctors suspect inflammation of this small pouch connected to the large intestine.
What is appendicitis?
A 70-year-old man develops a resting tremor, slow movements, and muscle stiffness. Doctors explain that the condition is caused by loss of dopamine-producing cells in the substantia nigra of the brain. This neurological disorder is most likely this.
What is Parkinson’s disease?
Bone remodeling is regulated by hormones. Calcitonin lowers blood calcium by stimulating these bone-building cells, while parathyroid hormone raises blood calcium by increasing the activity of these bone-resorbing cells.
What are osteoblasts and osteoclasts?