Med Term & Structures
The word mastication means
What is chewing
Organ important in cholesterol metabolism
What is the liver
This hormone regulates lactation
What is prolactin
This determines whether a fertilized egg will become male or female
What is the SRY gene
The essential activities of digestive system
What is ingestion, chewing, mixing, churning food in mouth, swallowing, peristalsis, catabolic breakdown, absorption.
The term deglutition means
What is the process of swallowing
Functions of protein in the body
What is to regulate and maintain body functions,
provide essential form of nitrogen in the form of amino acids, regulate acid base balance in blood.
Ectopic pregnancy can be described as
What is a fertilized embryo implanting at a site in the body other than in the uterus such as the fallopian tube.
This causes the descent of the testis
What is regresion of gubernaculum
Four layers of the wall of all alimentary canal organs
What is the mucosa, submucosa, muscular layer, serous layer
What is BMR
What is basal metabolic rate
Preferred fuel of a cell
What are carbohydrates
Describe a PAP Smear
what is a microscopic examination of cells taken from the uterine cervix that detect certain viral infections
Spermogenesis can be described as
What is the sequence of events in the seminiferous tubules of the testes that produces sperm
HCL and it's Functions
What is to turn inactive proteases, pepsinogen, and prochymosin into active pepsin and chymosin.
Define oogenesis
What is the process by which a diploid germ cell in the fetal ovary becomes a haploid ovum in the adult after fertilization occurs
Name the main thermoregulatory center
What is the Hypothalamus
Layers of of uterine wall include
What is the endometrium, myometrium, perimetrium
Three accessory glands of the male
What are the the paired seminal vesicles, single prostate, and the bulbo-urethral glands
Explain the function of the stomach
What is food storage, digestive proteins, regulation of delivery of partially digested food into small intestine
Name the organs and structures of the digestive system.
What are the Teeth, Mouth, Esophagus, Stomach, Small Intestine, Large Intestine.
Mechanisms that promote heat loss
What is radiation, convection, evaporation, and conduction
This triggers ovulation
What is the spike in the amount of FSH and LH released from the pituitary gland
The importance of blood testis barrier
What is to prevents immunological rejection of developing spermatocytes
Functions of saliva include
What is to Cleanses the mouth, Dissolves food chemicals so they can be tasted, Moistens food and aids in compacting food into a bolus, Contains enzymes that begin chemical breakdown of starch