Skeletal System
This category of the skeletal system includes the skull, hyoid bone, vertebrae, and ribs (including sternum).
What is the Axial Skeleton?
The three types of muscular tissue.
What are smooth, cardiac, and skeletal muscles?
The three functions of the nervous system.
What are sensory, integrative, and motor?
The valve between the left atrium and left ventricle.
What is the mitral (bicuspid) valve?
Where O2 and CO2 are exchanged.
What are alveoli?
The joint movement when the angle between two body parts is decreased.
What is flexion?
The two types of filaments that are used in the sarcomere for muscle contraction.
What are actin (thin filaments) and myosin (thick filaments)?
The part of the neuron that carries impulses away from the cell and towards the muscle.
What are axons?
The type of node that starts the heart rhythm and considered the "pacemaker" of the heart.
What is the sinoatrial (SA) node?
The volume of inhaled and exhaled air during regular breathing at rest.
What is resting tidal volume?