Name the 2 hormones that increase and then decrease blood glucose level
What is glucagon and insulin?
100
The only artery that carries deoxygenated blood
What is pulmonary artery?
100
The process by which cells ingest and destroy microbes, cell debris and other foreign matter
What is phagocytosis?
100
The location in which the Hypothalamus controls release of hormones by sending two different types of hormones to the pituitary
What is anterior pituitary gland?
100
Name the 4 parts of the lower respiratory tract
What are the larynx, trachea, bronchi, and lungs?
200
Name 4 hydrophobic hormones
What is estrogen, testosterone, T3 and T4?
200
The internal pace maker of the heart
What is SA node?
200
A defensive response of the body to tissue damage
What is inflammation?
200
The gland located below the larynx that secretes the hormones Thyroxine (T4) and Triiodothyronine (T3)
What is thyroid gland?
200
External intercostals and the diaphragm are this of the respiratory system
What are muscles?
300
Promotes growth of most tissues, lipid and carb breakdown, has insulin-like actions
What is human growth hormone (hGH)
300
Name the four valves of the heart
What is tricuspid, bicuspid, aortic, pulmonary?
300
This fluid has less protein than interstitial fluid because most protein molecules are too big to fit through capillary walls
What is lymph fluid?
300
Secretes the sympathetic stress hormones epinephrine and norepinephrine which increase blood pressure, heart rate, and airway size
What is adrenal medulla?
300
Blood gains Oxygen and loses carbon dioxide via gas exchange with the alveoli
What is external respiration?
400
The hormone that makes you have feeling of attachment
What is oxytocin?
400
Name the structure in arteries that is not found in veins
What is internal elastic lamina?
400
Includes the external physical and chemical barriers provided by the skin and mucous membranes as well as various internal defenses, such as antimicrobial substances, natural killer cells, phagocytes, inflammation and fever
What is innate immunity?
400
Attached to the roof of the third ventricle in the brain and secretes melatonin
A substance that has immunogenicity (the ability to provoke an immune response) and reactivity (the ability to react with the antibodies or cells that result from the immune response)
What is antigen?
500
Cells that release hormones that have cell bodies in the hypothalamus from which they communicate with the posterior pituitary gland