Unit 1
This type of muscle is the only one that lacks striations.
What is smooth muscle?
This part of the nervous system is made up of the brain and spinal cord.
What is the Central Nervous System?
These are the two values measured when someone's blood pressure is taken.
What are systolic and diastolic pressures?
This states that pressure and volume are inversely proportional.
What is Boyle's Law?
What are anterior and posterior?
In homeostasis, this type of feedback loop returns the body to a set point.
What is a negative feedback loop?
This section of the brain helps the body to coordinate its movement and balance.
What is the cerebellum?
These are two values that are used to determine cardiac output in a patient.
What are heart rate and stroke volume?
These are functions of the respiratory system. (List four.)
What are external respiration, internal respiration, vocalization, olfaction, coughing, sneezing, protection, etc.?
This is the “master gland” of the endocrine system, found in the brain.
What is the hypothalamus?
This loose connective tissue consists of a network of collagen and elastic fibers.
What is areolar tissue?
These are neuroglial cells in the nervous system (name three).
What are: Astrocytes, Oligodendrocytes, Schwann cells, Ependymal Cells, Microglia
These are the three layers of the pericardium.
What are the fibrous, parietal, and visceral layers?
This is the area of the trachea/bronchial tree in which inhaled air remains and does not reach the alveoli to do gas exchange.
This is the name of the tool used to determine a patient's blood pressure.
What is the sphygmomanometer?
An animal cell is exposed to a solution with a different tonicity than its own. As a result, water molecules move passively out of the cell. What is the relative tonicity of the solution outside the cell?
What is hypertonic?
These cells provide myelination in the PNS.
What are Schwann cells?
This is the specialized structure that joins cardiac muscles to allow for faster depolarization.
What are intercalated disks?
This is the main diagnostic ratio pulmonologists use to determine the nature of a respiratory disease.
This is the best cut in which to see the features of the hippocampus.
What is the coronal cut?
The process by which cells take in tiny droplets of liquid.
What is pinocytosis?
This is the specialized structure in the eye that allows certain animals to see in low light conditions.
This is the Frank-Starling Law.
What is the idea that the more blood is preloaded into the heart, the more blood will be pumped out (higher stroke volume), but until the preload is so great that it causes the elastin fibers to be permanently stretched?
What is cooperativity?
These are the two divisions (sub-cavities) of the thoracic cavity.
What are the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity?