Unit 1
These two fluid components make up the the extracellular fluid.
What are the plasma and interstitial fluid components?
The sodium-potassium exchange pump needs energy source in order to function.
What is ATP?
Skeletal muscle cells are usually attached to bone by...
What are tendons?
The process of developing and growing new blood vessel is called this.
What is angiogenesis?
The primary route for water loss from the body is the ____ system.
What is the urinary system?
Fick's law of diffusion states that the rate of diffusion across a membrane is proportional to...
What is concentration gradient, surface area, and membrane permeability?
Calcium is pretty important in the synapse, as the release of this calcium in this context would also be associated with the release of...
What is signal the release (exocytosis) of neurotransmitters?
The term used to describe the amount of blood in the ventricle available to be pumped out of the heart during the next contraction is...
What is EDV (End-Diastolic Value)?
Reactive hyperemia is...
What is increased blood flow following a period of reduced blood flow?
These two organ systems work very closely together to regulate aspect of water balance in the body.
What is the urinary and cardiovascular systems?
The binding of lipophilic messengers, such as steroid hormones, to their receptors most likely triggers...
Gene alteration or transcription changes
The time during which an excitable membrane cannot respond to further stimulation regardless of the stimulus strength is the ...
What is the absolute refractory period?
When death occur, this particular condition occurs between there is a halt to metabolism which causes the skeletal muscles to freeze in this part of the contractile cycle...
What is the rigor state?
Pulmonary ventilation refers to the...
What is the movement of air into and out of the lungs?
The primary complex carbohydrate ingested and digested by people is ____.
What is/are starches?
This property of diffusion would best explain why a circulatory system is needed in multicellular organisms.
What is that fact that diffusion is rapid over short distances and slow over long distances?
Caffeine, Nicotine, and Alcohol all have effects on this type of neurophysiological activity...
What is synaptic activity?
According to the Frank-Starling law of the heart, the cardiac output is directly related to the...
What is venous return?
Pressure and volume of gas in a container are related to temperature and number of gas molecules. This is known as ________ law
What is the ideal gas?
Feedforward reflexes are also known as what kind of reflexes?
What are cephalic reflexes?
These are the three types of hormones interaction that are prevalent in physiology.
When a puppy is scolded "No!" each time he chews on your homework, eventually he learns to leave your homework alone. This type of learning is called...
What is associative learning?
Acetylcholine slows the heart rate by just...
What is increasing the permeability of cell to K+ and decreasing the permeability to Ca2+?
Breathing that involves active inspiratory and expiratory movements is called ________ because it ensures that a person can increase overall volume.
What is hyperpnea?
Excess potassium ions are eliminated from the body by this organ.
What is the kidney?