Blood Vessels
The type of artery the aorta is.
What is Elastic?
A measure of the tendency of water to flow into a solution due to its solute concentration. A "pulling" pressure.
What is Osmotic Pressure?
The only lymphoid organ not to contain lymphoid tissue. Also a location where lymphocytes mature.
What is the Thymus?
The tissue layer from which the brain and spinal cord are derived.
What is Ectoderm?
The "rest and digest" division of the autonomic nervous system.
What is Parasympathetic?
The vessel that delivers nutrient rich blood from the digestive tract to the liver for processing and storage.
What is the Hepatic Portal Vein?
Lymph ducts drain into these two veins, the great veins of the neck.
What are the Subclavian and Brachiocephalic veins?
Antibodies are produced by plasma cells, differentiated versions of this type of immune cell.
What are B Lymphocytes?
The internal white matter of the cerebellum.
What is the Arbor Vitae?
A concentration of cell bodies wrapped in connective tissue.
What is a Ganglion?
The type of capillaries found in the blood brain barrier.
What are Continuous Capillaries?
The tissue of the outer fibrous capsule that invades the interior of the lymph node dividing it into compartments. Also the name of a component of spongy bone.
What are Trabeculae?
HIV infects and destroys this type of immune cell.
What are Helper T Cells?
The brain region responsible for speech production.
What is Broca's Area?
CN VII, the Facial Nerve, innervates the muscles of facial expressions and originates from this part of the brain stem.
What is the Pons?
The arteries that supply the brain and orbit.
What are the Internal Carotid Arteries?
A large protein within plasma that has almost no permeability.
What is Albumin?
The ability of a lymphocyte to recognize a specific antigen.
What is Immunocompetence?
This anatomical feature connects the right and left halves of the thalmus.
What is the Intermediate Mass/Interthalamic Adhesion?
Only this type of neuron runs through the dorsal root.
The opening that diverts blood from the right to left atrium in a fetus; Becomes the Fossa Ovalis after postnatally.
What is the Foramen Ovale?
Specialized lymphatic capillaries located within the small intestine that pick up digested fats.
What are Lacteals?
Specialized antigen-gathering cells.
What are Dendritic Cells?
The intrameningeal space that contains large blood vessels that supply the brain.
What is the Subarachnoid Space?
Swellings of visceral motor axons that form a row of knobs releasing neurotransmitters across a wide synaptic cleft to smooth muscles and gland cells.
What are Varicosities?