NERVOUS SYSTEM
The functional unit of nervous tissue is this.
What is a neuron or nerve cell?
Glands that secrete their product into the interstitial fluid are known as these.
What are endocrine glands?
The oxygen carrying protein found in a red blood cell.
What is hemoglobin?
This is the study of structure and the relationships among structures.
What is anatomy?
He wrote and performed the "Constipation Blues".
Who is Screaming Jay Hawkins?
This clear colorless fluid circulates around the brain and spinal cord.
What is cerebrospinal fluid/CSF?
If you snack before bedtime, you will inhibit the release of this hormone.
What is growth hormone hGh?
A blood clot, bubble of air, fat from broken bone or piece of debris transported by the bloodstream is call this.
What is an embolus?
The maintenance of the body's internal environment despite changes to the inside or outside.
What is homeostasis?
Where the "mummy" went to get her back fixed.
What is the Cairo practor?
These are chemical substances released by neurons at synapses.
What are neurotransmitters?
Grave's disease is the most common form of this.
What is hyperthyroidism?
This heart valve resembles a Bishop's hat.
What is the mitral or bicuspid valve?
The net movement of water across a selectively permeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
This part of the human anatomy expands to ten times its normal size during intense emotion or excitement.
What is the pupil of the eye?
This type of neuroglia is responsible for producing and maintaining the myelin sheath in the central nervous system.
What is an oligodendrocyte?
The name for the active form of Vitamin D3.
What is calcitriol?
The term that describes tissues that lack capillaries.
What is avascular?
Stratified squamous epithelial tissue would be found here.
What is skin?
This is what the spleen does.
What is filter blood?
The organ of Corti or spiral organ is the functional unit of this.
What is hearing or the inner ear?
A pheochromocytoma is a tumor located in this gland that can cause a hypersecretion of epinephrine and sympathetic responses.
What is the adrenal medulla?
Spell sphygmomanometer.
What is sphygmomanometer?
The most abundant tissue in the human body.
What is connective tissue?
This was Elvis' favorite cranial nerve.
What is Vagus (X)?