What you trying to "cell"?
Basic Unit of all living things: Bacteria, plants, animals including humans
What are cells?
Group of similar cells that perform a specific function
What is tissue?
Groups of Specialized tissues that perform specific functions, includes brain, heart, lungs, stomach, intestines, liver, kidneys, eyes & skin
What are organs?
Composed of 206 bones, physical foundation
What is the Skeletal System?
The study of the structure, functions & diseases of the muscular system
What is Myology?
A well-organized body system composed of the brain, spinal cord & nerves
What is the nervous system?
Whitish bundles of nerve fibers that transmit impluses
What are nerves?
Controls body's steady blood circulation through heart & blood vessels; known as cardiovascular or vascular system
What is the circulatory system?
Thick-walled flexible tubes that carry oxygenated blood away from heart to the arterioles
What are arteries?
Means natural covering
What is integument?
Chemical substances such as insulin, adrenaline, & estrogen that stimulate activities in the body
What are hormones?
Cell is made up of this in which nutrients, mineral salts & water are present
What is protoplasm?
Fibrous tissue that binds and supports other body tissues & organs
What is Connective tissue?
Provides a protective covering & regulates body temperature. Includes skin, oil/sweat glands, hair & nails.
What is integumentary system?
Cheek/molar bones, cheek prominence, outer part of eye socket
What is the zygomatic bones?
Three parts of a muscle
What is the Belly, Origin & Insertion?
The study of the structure, function, and pathology of the nervous system
What is neurology?
Two types of nerves
What are Sensory & motor nerves?
Muscular, cone-shaped organ
What is the heart?
Largest artery in the body
What is the aorta?
Skin, accessory organs, oil/sweat glands, sensory receptors, hair & nails
What is the integumentary system?
Duct glands
What are Exocrine glands?
Process of cell reproduction that occurs when the cell divides into two identical daughter cells.
What is mitosis?
Provides a covering that protects the body, found within many parts of the body, such as skin, mucous membranes, digestive & respiratory, lining of the mouth, heart & glands
What is Epithelial tissue?
Makes blood and oxygen available to body structures, eliminates carbon dioxide, optimum cell functioning
What is the respiratory system?
Smaller bone in the forearm on same side as thumb
What is the radius?
Neck muscle that lowers & rotates the head, originates at clavicle & inserts at the temporal bone near the ear
What is the Sternocleidomastoideus?
3 main subdivisions of the nervous system
What is autonomic, central & peripheral?
Carries impulses from the brain to the muscle glands; transmitted impulses to produce movement
What are efferent nerves aka motor nerves?
Two systems of circulation
What are pulmonary & systemic?
A fluid that travels through the circulatory system to supply oxygen & nutrients to the cells and tissues and removes carbon dioxide and waste from them
What is blood?
Glandlike structures that filter bacteria, viruses & cancer cells
What are lymph nodes?
Produce & release substances that perform a specific function in the body
What are glands?
Cells convert nutrients to energy through a chemical process known as
What is metabolism?
Carries messages to and from the brain and controls and coordinates all bodily functions
What are nerve tissue?
Controls hormone levels that determine growth, development, reproduction, health of body
What is the Endocrine System?
5 long slender bones smiliar to metacarpals
What are the metatarsals?
Muscles that draw a body part toward the midline of the body, Draws the fingers together in the hand
What are adductors?
Controls voluntary muscle actions & consists of the brain, spinal cord, spinal nerves, & cranial nerves
What is the Central nervous system?
Carries messages from the sense organs to the brain & spinal cord; located close to the skin's surface & passes impluses to brain back to motor nerves to the muscles, causing movement
?What are afferent nerves aka sensory nerves
System that carries oxygen-poor blood to the lungs for oxygenation & waste removal then returns that blood to the left atrium of the heart so that oxygen-rich blood can be delivered to the body
What is pulmonary circulation?
The amount of blood in the human body
What is 8 to 10 pints?
Important part of the immune system
What is the lymphatic system?
Ductless Glands
What are Endocrine Glands?
Two types of Metabolism
What is Anabolism & Catabolism?
Contracts & moves various parts of the body
What is Muscle tissue?
I C REMINDERS
What is Integumentary, Circulatory, Respiratory, Endocrine, Muscular, Immune(Lymphatic), Nervous, Digestive, Excretory, Reproductive, Skeletal Systems
Located on the little toe side of lower leg, two leg bones below the knee
What is the fibula?
Muscle that covers the bridge of the nose, lowers the eyebrows, causes wrinkles across bridge of nose
What is the procerus?
Portion of the central nervous system; 31 pairs of spinal nerves that extend from the ______ ____ to the muscles, organs, & skin
What is the spinal cord?
Reaction to the outside stimulus, impulse sent along motor neuron
What is a reflex?
System that carries oxygen-rich blood from the heart throughout the body & returns oxygen-poor blood back to the heart known as general circulation
What is systemic circulation?
thin-walled blood vessels that are less elastic than arteries & carry blood containing waste products to the heart and lungs for cleaning & to pick up oxygen
What are veins?
Color of fluid that contains white-blood cells
What is pale-yellow?
Growth, development, reproduction, & health of entire body
How the endocrine glands affect the body?