Circulatory System
Vessels that carry blood towards
the heart from body tissues?
Veins
What is Dyspnea?
Difficulty Breathing
What helps the body prepare for conception and pregnancy?
Progesterone
Before traveling to the rest of the body, all absorbed nutrients or toxins from the digestive tract must first pass through which organ?
Liver
True or False: After an animal sustains an injury, the number of blood platelets generally increases to aid in the clotting process.
True
Vessels that carry blood away from the heart to body tissues?
Arteries
Roaring and Heaves are respiratory conditions to what animal?
Horses
What known as the "master gland"?
Pituitary Gland
Food that enters the mouth?
Ingestion
Which type of muscle tissue is classified as "voluntary" because its movement is under conscious control?
Skeletal Muscle
carry oxygen from the lungs to the body’s tissues?
carry carbon dioxide from the tissues to the lungs to be expelled?
Red Blood Cells
What is the pathway of air? ____->____->____
->____-> ____-> _____ -> _____ ->
Nose -> Pharynx -> Larynx -> Trachea -> Bronchi
-> Lungs -> Alveoli
central nervous system
________ __________
peripheral nervous system
________
Brain, Spinal cord
Nerves
The act by which food is grasped and gathered into the mouth?
Prehension
The control of body temperature? Humans control body temperature through sweating, where dogs control body temperature by panting.
Thermoregulation
The chambers of the heart are separated by the ______ which divides the right and left sides.
Septum
What is the purpose of the epiglottis?
To prevent food from entering the trachea.
What is the name of the junction where nerve impulses are transmitted?
Synapse
- _________ :body releases enzymes, water and acids into food
- _________:movement of molecules into the blood stream
- _________:waste is eliminated from the body
secretion
absorption
excretion
1. white muscle fiber (fast-twitch)
2. red muscle fiber (slow-twitch)
1. anaerobic
2. aerobic
What side carries deoxygenated blood to the lungs?
What side pumps oxygenated blood to the body?
Carries - right side
Pumps - left side
1. Taking air into the lungs is?
2. Expelling air from the lungs is?
1. inspiration
2. expiration
What is the fundamental cellular unit of the nervous system?
The neuron
chewing occurs
Mastication
Epidermis