Basics
This liquid connective tissue transports respiratory gases, nutrients, and waste products throughout the body.
What is blood?
The place where two bones come together.
What is a joint?
When the dermis is overstretched, connective tissue called elastin can tear, leading to this common condition visible on the epidermis.
What are stretch marks?
Compared to the endocrine system, the nervous system responds more rapidly and uses ______ as chemical messengers.
What are neurotransmitters?
Compared to the nervous system, the endocrine system responds more slowly and uses _____ as chemical messengers.
What are hormones?
This tissue covers external and internal body structures and provides protection, absorption, secretion, excretion, and sensation.
What is epithelial tissue, or epithelium?
Repeating “compartments” found along myofibrils that are the smallest structural unit of muscle contractions.
What is a sarcomere?
A fungal infection, most often on the soles of the feet or between the toes. Can appear as a scaly rash or as moist raw skin between the toes.
What is athlete’s foot?
_____ is simplest structural unit of the nervous system, responsible for production and secretion of neurotransmitters.
What is a neuron?
This structure, located in the diencephalon of the brain, secretes hormones that stimulate or inhibit the release of pituitary hormones.
What is the hypothalamus?
This oval-shaped cellular organelle converts nutrients into the cell’s energy molecule, ATP (Adenosine Tri-Phosphate).
What is Mitochondrion? Or
What are Mitochondria?
Anatomists have designated origins and insertions for muscles otherwise known as…
What is BS? Or What are attachment sites?
Ceruminous glands are specialized sweat glands that secrete cerumen, otherwise known as…
What is earwax?
This band of brainwaves (>39Hz) is associated with inwardly-focused concentration, high-level information processing, problem-solving and learning.
What is Gamma?
This gland secretes melatonin.
What is the Pineal gland?
Between tissues, this substance bathes cells and provides a transport medium for nutrients, gases, and wastes.
What is interstitial fluid?
This iron-binding and oxygen-binding protein holds oxygen in muscle fibers to power muscle contractions and also gives muscle a red appearance.
What is myoglobin?
This idiopathic integumentary condition causes total or partial loss of pigmentation to occur in irregular patches that tend to grow larger and spread over time.
What is Vitiligo?
This subdivision of the Autonomic Nervous System dominates during restful and calm situations to help the body restore energy. It is nicknamed the “rest-and-digest” response.
What is the Parasympathetic division?
These two neurohormones are produced by the adrenal medulla and act on the sympathetic division of the nervous system.
What are epinephrine and norepinephrine?
This cartilage type is the strongest in the body, serving as a shock absorber between vertebrae (intervertebral discs) and in the knee (meniscus).
What is Fibrocartilage?
This “little cup” sits at the intersection of the Ilium, Ischium, and Pubis.
What is the Acetabulum?
This type of “free nerve” ending detects actual or potential tissue damage and are sensitive to pain.
What are nociceptors?
This tightly packed group of cells in the lining of blood vessels that supply the central nervous system allows the passage of certain molecules but prevents harmful molecules from entering.
What is the blood-brain barrier?
Parathyroid Hormone works counter to Calcitonin from the Thyroid gland by _____ calcium levels in the blood.
What is ”increasing”?