Heart
The pacemaker of the heart is called?
SA - Sinoatrial Node
What is the medical terminology for the study of the body structure called?
ANATOMY
What component of blood is the fluid portion that carries RBC's, WBC's, waste carbon dioxide (CO2)?
Plasma
This mnemonic BREAKFAST-LUNCH-DINNER-SNACK associates numbers that represent what part of the skeleton?
Spinal Column:
Breakfast @ 7 Cervical
Lunch @ 12 Thoracic
Dinner @ 5 Lumbar
Snack @ 9 Sacrum and Coccyx
What is the largest organ of the body?
SKIN
Toilet/Paper/My/Assets: represent what mnemonic of the heart?
Toilet - Tricuspid Valve
Paper - Pulmonary Valve
My - Mitral (Bicuspid) Valve
Assets - Aortic Valve
What is the medical terminology for the study of the body function?
PHYSIOLOGY
What is the name of this component that carry oxygen (O2) and carbon dioxide (CO2); is also known by two other medical names?
Red Blood Cells, Erythrocytes or Red Corpuscles.
What bone lies on the lateral side of the forearm?
RADIUS (RAY-de-us)
What organ acts as a blood filtration system and a reservoir for reserves of blood?
SPLEEN
What is the only venous vessel that carry oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart called?
Pulmonary Vein
This medical term is a leaf-shaped structure that prevents food and foreign matter from entering the trachea.
EPIGLOTTIS (EP-i-GLOT-is)
What is the name of this component that produce substances that help the body fight infection? Also known by two other medical names?
White Blood Cells, Leukocytes, or White Corpuscles.
What part of the skull is the only bone that moves?
MANDIBLE (MAN-di-bul)
What organ produces insulin in the body?
Pancreas
What is the only arterial vessel that carries deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs called?
Pulmonary Artery
This medical term is the inability of the body to adequately circulate blood to the body's cell to supply them with oxygen and nutrients; a life-threatening condition. Also called shock.
HYPOPERFUSION
Name the four components of blood not including the five types of white blood cells.
Plasma, Red Blood Cells, Platelets, and White Blood Cells.
What is the name of the pelvic socket which the ball at the proximal end of the femur fits into to form the hip joint called?
Acetabulum (AS-uh-TAB-yuh-lum)
What organ of the body produces bile?
LIVER
Superior/Inferior Vena Cava, Right Atrium, Tricuspid Valve, Right Ventricle, Pulmonary Valve, Right/Left Pulmonary Artery, Right/Left Pulmonary Vein, Left Atrium, Mitral Valve aka (Bicuspid Valve), Left Ventricle, Aortic Valve, Aorta.
This term pertains to the ability of the heart to generate and conduct electrical impulses on its own.
AUTOMATICITY (AW-to-muh-TISS-it-e)
What type of blood component release chemical clotting factors needed to form BLOOD CLOTS?
Platelets
What two areas of the spinal column can cause severe damage during a motor vehicle accident?
Cervical and Lumbar.
What organ stores the production of Bile from the Liver?
GALLBLADDER