Systems
The transportation system.
What is the CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM?
A type of connective tissue that helps reduce friction and absorb shock between joints.
What is CARTILAGE?
This system includes vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
What is the SENSORY SYSTEM?
A decrease in strength and size of muscle.
What is MUSCULAR ATROPHY?
This acronym stands for balance, eyes, facial drooping, arm weakness, speech difficulty, and time to call 911.
What is BE FAST?
Common disorders/diseases of this system include COPD, emphysema, and TB.
What is the RESPIRATORY SYSTEM?
The slow, wave-like contractions that move food through the digestive tract.
What is PERISTALSIS?
Muscle tissue that is involuntary.
What is SMOOTH MUSCLE?
The inability to empty the bladder.
What is URINARY RETENTION?
The powerhouse of the cell.
What is the MITOCHONDRIA?
Hair, skin, and nails.
What is the INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM?
Another word for the trachea.
What is the WINDPIPE?
This system provides shape and support to the body and protects our vital organs like the heart and lungs.
What is SKELETAL SYSTEM?
Most common cause of renal failure.
What is DIABETES?
What is VISION?
Where O2 and CO2 are exchanged within the respiratory system.
What is AVEOLI?
This is the innermost layer of the skin.
What is the HYPODERMIS?
This gland produces oil and keeps the skin and hair soft.
What is the SEBACEOUS GLAND?
Myelin sheath slowly being destroyed causes progressive loss of muscle control with this disease.
What is MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS?
This type of tissue provides support, structure, and holds the body parts together.
What is CONNECTIVE TISSUE?
The main function of this system is to take nutrients from food, absorb water, and eliminate solid waste.
What is the DIGESTIVE SYSTEM?
This medical term means kidney infection.
What is NEPHRITIS?
In the digestive system, where most of the nutrients are absorbed.
What is the SMALL INTESTINE?
When the pancreas does not create enough insulin a person would have this type of disease.
What is TYPE 2 DIABETES?
Where bone marrow is made and stored.
What is the MEDULLARY CANAL?