Endocrine
What occurs to the thymus after puberty?
What is gradually diminishes?
What type of tissue is blood?
What is connective tissue?
Which heart structure receives blood from systemic circuit?
What is the right atrium?
This vessel collects blood from the abdominal and pelvic cavities and the lower limbs.
What is the inferior vena cava
How does the lumen of an artery differ from that of a vein?
What is smaller in diameter?
What type of hormone are created from cholesterol?
What are steroid hormones?
In what way does blood work to defend the body?
What is transport white blood cells to injury and infection sites?
Name the layer that lines the internal surface of the heart.
What is the endocardium?
The sympathetic nervous system causes vasoconstriction and vasodilation by activating which tunica layer of vessels?
What is the tunica media?
Athersclerosis occurs when fatty plaques are deposited where?
What is the tunica intima layer?
The only endocrine gland to store its hormone extracellularly.
What is the thyroid?
A plasma protein essential component to the clotting system.
What is fibrinogen?
What structure connects cardiac muscles together, that skeletal muscles lack?
What are intercalated discs?
What can diffuse across endothelial cells of capillaries?
What are gasses?
The network of small arteries that supply very larger vessels.
What is vaso vasorum?
A steroid hormone that prepares female body for pregnancy.
What are progestins?
What prevents erythrocytes from using oxygen during transport?
What is lack of mitochondria?
This structure marks the boarder between atria and the ventricles.
What is the coronary sulcus?
This thin-walled, large veins lies in the coronary sulcus.
What is the coronary sinus?
The end of the descending aorta occurs where?
What is the bifurcation into the common iliac arteries?
Produced by the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland, the hormone called ________ stimulates cell growth and replication by accelerating the rate of protein synthesis.
What is growth hormone?
What causes a blood type to be + or -?
What is presence or absence of Rh (D) surface antigen?
What makes the cardiac muscles a functional syncytium?
What is complete mechanical, chemical, and electrical connectivity between cardiac muscle cells?
Which two veins are the chief collecting veins of the thorax?
What are the azygous and hemiazygous?
In fetal circulation, blood may bypass the pulmonary circuit by passing from the pulmonary trunk to the aorta through the short muscular vessel known as the ________.
What is ductus arterious?