Cardiac System
The name of the vessel that carries blood away from the heart at high pressure.
The movement of air into and out of the lungs
What is ventilation?
Structure where digestion begins.
What is the mouth?
Molecule that is secreted into the bloodstream by an endocrine gland and works on distant target cells.
What is a hormone?
Ability to resist infection
What is immunity?
Side of the heart that is less muscular since it carries deoxygenated blood
What is the right side of the heart?
The structure that gas passes through after the bronchioles.
What are alveoli?
Food+gastric secretions
What is chyme?
Gland that secretes into the GI tract or the outside world using ducts.
What is an exocrine gland?
Type of immunity that is the same against every invader.
What is nonspecific immunity?
Where the blood goes through to return to the heart from the lungs.
What are the pulmonary veins?
The structure that surrounds the lungs.
What are pleura?
Location of bacteria that supply vitamins such as vitamin K.
What is the large intestine?
What are dendrites?
Produce antibodies
What are B cells?
Ventricle
Exchange of gases between lungs and blood or blood and other tissues of the body.
What is respiration?
Hormone released in response to low blood sugar which causes the release of glucose.
What is glucagon?
Part of the brain that coordinates complex movements and balance.
Processes blood
What is the spleen?
Name for the part of the cardiac cycle in which the ventricles are contracting.
Systole
Structure that seals the trachea to prevent food from falling down the trachea.
Orderly form of contraction that moves the bolus through the GI tract.
What is the peristalsis?
Lobe of the brain responsible for general sensations and taste.
What is the parietal lobe?
Surface proteins on pathogens
What are antigens?