Cardiovascular System
Chamber that receives blood from the body via the vena cava.
What is the right atrium?
Organ that moistens, warms, and filters air while also serving as a resonating chamber for speech.
What is the nose?
Organ that produces bile, stores glucose, and glycogen, and detoxifies poisons and drugs.
Stores and expels urine while resting on the pelvic floor behind the pubic symphysis.
What is the urinary bladder?
Vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
What is hypertension?
Air filled sacs at the end of the respiratory tree that are the primary sit of gas exchange in the lungs.
What are alveoli?
Muscular tube that uses 3 skeletal constrictor muscles to push food into the esophagus during swallowing.
What is the pharynx?
Squeezes fluid out of the glomerular capillaries into the nephron to begin urine formation.
What is filtration?
Type of blood vessel that allows exchange of O2 and CO2 by direct diffusion.
What are capillaries?
Plaque buildup inside artery walls that reduces blood flow and raises the risk of clots and heart attacks.
What is atherosclerosis?
Voice box structure that produces speech, provides an open airway, and routes food and air into proper channels.
What is the larynx?
Process that involves the movement of air, water and food from the stomach into the small intestine over 3-6 hours.
What is gastric emptying?
Transfers unwanted molecules from the blood into the renal tubule for excretion.
What is secretion?
White blood cells that fight infection and include lymphocytes and neutrophils.
What are leukocytes?
Thin membrane where gas exchange occurs and its formed by the fused wall of alveoli and capillaries.
What is the respiratory membrane?
Intestinal structure that contains microvilli, blood capillaries, and a lacteal for absorbing nutrients.
What is a villus?
Is inhibited by alcohol causing less water reabsorption and production of dilute urine.
What is antidiuretic hormone (ADH)?
Marker that determines if blood is Rh+ or Rh-.
What is the Rh factor?
Muscular valves at the entrance of capillary beds that regulate blood flor into tissues.
What are pre-capillary sphincters?
Process that involves oxygen diffusing from the lungs into blood and carbon dioxide diffusing from blood into the alveoli.
What is external respiration?
Nervous system in the gut wall that contains about 100 million neurons and regulates digestion automatically.
What is the enteric nervous system?
Located in the renal cortex and lined with cuboidal epithelial cells that have long microvilli to absorb solutes.
What is the proximal convoluted tubule?
Disease that may occur in a newborn if an Rh- mother carries an Rh+ baby.
What is hemolytic disease?