Nerves
How many nerves supply the arms and hands?
4, The digital,radial, ulnar, and median nerves.
True or False
The lymph vascular system consists of the heart, arteries, veins, and capillaries that distribute blood throughout the body.
False, The Blood Vascular System.
True or False
Lymph is a clear fluid that circulates throughout the body, where is helps carry wastes and impurities away from the cells.
True
This system, among other things, affects the entire health of the body.
The Endocrine System
The Digestive System is also called the ...
The Gastrointestinal System
True or False
The excretory system is made up the skin, and its various accessory organs, such as the sweat and oil glands, sensory receptors, hair and nails.
False, The Integumentary System
What does the saphenous nerve supply?
Supplies impulses to the inner side of the leg and foot.
The heart contains 4 chambers, what are their names?
Left & Right Ventricle and Left & Right Atria.
Which artery, with its branches supplies the little-finger side of the arm and palm of the hand.
The Ulnar Artery
What is the Pineal Glands Job?
The entire process of digesting food takes about 9 hours, what chemical in the body aids in breaking food food into nutrients or waste?
Digestive Enzymes
Explain the Reproductive System.
It performed the function of reproducing and perpetuating the human race.
This nerve subdivides and supplies impulses to the knee; muscles of the calf; the skin of the leg; and the sole, heel and underside of the toes.
The Tibial Nerve.
Fill in the blank.
" Blood vessels are tubelike structures that include ______, _______, & _______. The function of the vessels is to transport blood throughout the body.
Arteries, Capillaries, and Veins.
Describe the Anterior Tibial Artery.
Supplies blood to the lower leg muscles and to the muscles and skin on the top of the foot and adjacent sides of the first and second toes.
True or False
The Thyroid gland affects every physiologic process of the body.
False, The Pituitary Gland
Describe the Diaphragm.
Its a muscle wall that separates the thorax, from the abdominal region. and helps control breathing.
Explain an Artery.
Thick walled flexible tubes that carry oxygenated blood away from the heart and to the capillaries.
This nerve is also known as the Anterior Tibial Nerve.
The Deep Peroneal Nerve.
What is the white blood cell's job?
To preform the function of destroying disease causing micro organisms.
Which gland like structures are found inside the lymphatic vessels helps the filtering process to fight infection?
Lymph Nodes.
This system works to remove toxins from the body.
The Excretory System
What takes place with each breathing cycle?
An exchange for gases
Valves are thin walled blood vessels that a less flexible than arteries. Is this true?
No, Veins are thin walled vessels.
True or False
The common peroneal nerve extends from behind the knee, to wind around the head of the fibula, to the front of the leg where it divided into two branches.
True
What part of the bloods composition aids in forming blood clots?
Platelets
True or False
The Exocrine System is closely connected to the blood and cardiovascular system.
False, The Lymphatic/Immune system.
What organs work together to create the excretory system?
The kidneys, liver, the skin, the large intestines and the lungs.
True or False
Inhalation is the exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the lungs and within each cell.
False, Respiration.
This gland is in control of the "Fight or Flight" response.
The Adrenal Gland