Skeletal & Muscles
3 types of muscle tissue.
What are Skeletal, muscular, and cardiac?
Name of the muscle that flexes the elbow.
What is the biceps muscle?
Formed element of the blood involved in forming blood clots.
What is a platelet?
The names of 4 chambers of the heart.
What are the right and left atria, and the right and left ventricles?
The functional unit of the kidney and the location of filtrate formation.
What are the nephron and the glomerulus?
Name of the appendicular bone also known as the thigh bone.
What is a femur?
What is acetylcholine, dopamine, or serotonin?
Formal name for a red blood cell.
What is an erythrocyte?
Name of the organ that filters lymph.
What is a lymph node?
The definition of peristalsis.
What is the autonomic movement of a bolus of food through the digestive tract?
Name & Classification of the distal end of the spine.
What are coccyx and axial?
A function of the parathyroid hormone.
What is the control of calcium levels of the blood.
Blood type(s) that can be received by a person with type A neg blood.
What are A neg and O neg blood?
Name of an artery that carries deoxygenated blood.
What is the pulmonary artery?
Name of the small grape-like structures where gas exchange occurs in the lungs.
What are the alveoli?
The parts of the sliding filament of muscle tissue and their official names.
What are a Thin filament, known as actin and a thick filament, known as myosin?
Organ that is part of the nervous system, but controls the master gland of the endocrine system.
What is the hypothalamus?
The two hormones produced by the pancreas and their effects.
What are insulin, to reduce blood glucose, and glucagon to increase blood glucose
Name two effects of a blockage of the artery due to atherosclerosis.
What is blood flow will be decreased and blood pressure will increase?
The names and locations of the two types of respiration.
What are internal respiration between the blood and the cells, and external respiration between the blood and the outside air in the lungs?
Name of the cell responsible for bone growth.
What is osteoblast.
A major difference between the effects of the nervous system compared to the endocrine system.
What is the Nervous system is fast acting since it uses electrical system, compared to the slower hormone effects of the endocrine system?
Reaction that occurs if a person with type B blood receives type AB blood.
What is the recipient's antibodies will react to the A antigens on the surface of the donor's blood?
Name 3 factors that affects blood pressure.
What are artery diameter, elasticity, & strength of heart muscle, and amount of blood?
This happens to your diaphragm and air pressures in the lungs during exhalation.
What is the diaphragm relaxes during exhalation, and this increases the air pressure inside the lungs?