Vital Signs
The speed of the heartbeat measured by the number of contractions of the heart per minute
What is heartrate or pulse?
A pair of globular organs in the head through which people and vertebrate animals see.
What are eyes?
Bacteria are __________-celled microscopic organism
What is the single?
This part of the brain has two hemispheres and is the largest part of the human brain
What is the cerebrum?
This system is responsible for voluntary and involuntary responses
What is the nervous system?
What is temperature?
These are part of the brain that allow us to smell.
What are olfactory bulbs?
What is a type of medication used to kill bacteria?
What is anitbiotic?
This part of the brain is connected to our spinal cord
What is the brain stem?
The signal begins at this part of the neuron
What is the dendrite?
This is usually measured in breaths per minute.
What is respiratory rate?
What is the ear?
Organisms such as yeast or molds, that produce quickly in moist humid environments.
What is fungi.
This part of the brain is responsible to helping the two cerebral hemispheres communicate, and is found down the middle of the cerebral hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
The brain and spinal cord make up which part of the nervous system
What is the central nervous system?
The top number of a blood pressure reading- it is the maximum pressure your heart exerts while beating
What is systolic pressure?
We are able to experience flavor when we eat because of this sense?
What is taste?
Agents that can only multiply when they are inside of a host.
What is virus.
This lobe in the cerebrum is the executive and responsible for critical thinking, decision-making, emotional responses, movement, and language
What is the frontal lobe?
The nerves make up this part of the nervous system?
What is the Peripheral Nervous System ?
The bottom number of a blood pressure reading- it is the amount of pressure in your arteries between beats (when your heart is at rest)
What is diastolic pressure?
These parts of the brain process touch
What are the parietal lobe and sensory cortex?
Disease agents that does not rely on a host.
What is bacteria.
This part of the brain helps regulate temperature and maintain homeostasis
What is the hypothalamus?
This part of the neuron allows signals to pass quickly and efficiently through the axon
What is the myelin sheath?