This joint permits the widest range of movement.
What is ball and socket?
This type of respiration alternates between hyperventilation and stopping in breathing in critically ill patients.
What is Cheyne-Stokes Respiration?
Liquid portion of blood that contains clotting factors.
What is plasma?
This gland secretes oil for the skin and hair.
What is sebaceous gland?
What are Prostaglandins?
This term refers to the ends of a long bone.
What is Epiphysis?
Called the "power plant" of the cell.
What is mitochondria?
Balancing the body's systems to provide an internal environment that is compatible with life.
What is Homeostasis?
Which structure in the ear contains receptors for hearing?
What is Cochlea?
Division of the nervous system that is in charge of the "flight or fight" response.
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
This type of muscle tissue does not contain striations.
What is smooth muscle?
Order of stages of Mitosis.
What are Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase and Telophase?
Blood pressure is highest in the _____ and lowest in the _____.
What is large arteries and large veins?
Pressure is an example of this sense.
What is general sense?
The posterior pituitary gland releases these two hormones.
What are ADH and oxytocin?
Intercalated disks are found in this type of muscle.
What is cardiac muscle?
White blood cells that are key in the immune response.
What are lymphocytes?
Structure known at the "pacemaker" of the heart.
What is the SA node (Sinoatrial node)?
These are the receptors for vision.
What are rods and cones?
Axons do this.
What is carry nerve impulses away from the cell body?
Term that means midline of body.
What is lateral?
Functional unit of the Respiratory system.
What is Alveoli?
A person with type B blood has these antibodies in their plasma.
What is Anti-A?
Term used to indicate that a tissue has become cancerous.
What is malignant?
A junction between 2 nervous cells.
What is synapse?