The Ear
The type of wave that a sound wave travels as
What are mechanical waves?
The urinary system is part of this system
What is the excretory system?
The pancreas secretes this hormone-
What is insulin?
This photoreceptor detects color
What are the Cones?
The upper chambers of the heart are called this
What are atria?
The inner ear is filled by this substance
What is fluid?
The ________ carries the urine out of the body.
What is the urethra?
Fats are broken down by the enzyme
What is lipidase?
This part of the eye senses light and sends signals to the brain.
What is the Retina?
The bicuspid valve is also known as
What is the mitral valve?
The smallest bone in the human body
What is the stapes bone?
The urinary system consists of these six parts.
What are the Kidneys, Ureter, Urinary Bladder, Urethra, the IVC (Inferior Vena Cava) and Aorta?
The organ where bile is stored
What is the gallbladder?
The number of layers making up the retina.
What is 10 layers?
The final chamber the blood is pumped through before entering the aorta?
What is the left ventricle?
The eardrums medical name
What is the tympanic membrane?
This prefix refers to the pelvis.
What is pyelo?
The name of the disease that destroys the small intestine when gluten is ingested
What is Celiac Disease?
This makes up 95% of the photoreceptors in the eye
What are rods?
The valve which separates the right atrium and right ventricle?
What is the tricuspid valve?
The nerve that enters the brain from the auditory and vestibular systems
What is the vestibulocochlear nerve?
The kidneys perform these functions (name at least 3)
What is regulating the volume of blood pressure, the concentration of solutes in the blood, red blood cell synthesis and regulation of vitamin D?
The enzyme in saliva
What is salivary amylase?
The transparent region that forms the surface of the eye.
What is the cornea?
Blood pressure is higher in these blood vessels
What are arteries?