The pigment responsible for skin color.
What is melanin?
A function of the muscular system (name one function this system has).
What is stabilizing joints / maintaining posture / producing movement / moving substances within the body / stabilizing body position and regulating organ volume / producing heat?
A joint type (name a kind of joint you can find throughout the body).
What is Ball & Socket / Pivot / Saddle / Hinge / Ellipsoid (Condyloid) / Plane or Gliding?
What is keratin?
The two kinds of bone marrows and their funciton.
What is (a) red marrow: to make blood and (b) yellow marrow: to store fat/energy?
What is epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis?
The motor unit.
What is a single motor neuron and all the muscle fibres it innervates?
The scientific name for bone cells.
What is osteocytes?
What is cylindrical?
The region of the spine that contains 12 vertebrae and provide attachment to the ribs.
What is thoracic?
The function of collagen.
What is provide structure, strenght and support throughout the whole body? What is prevents skin from 'wrinkling.'
The disease caused by bacteria Clostridium botulinum.
What is boutilism?
The outer layer of the bone (name and function).
What is periosteum: fibrous membrane rich in nerves and blood vessels that supplies nutrients?
The name for an injury to ligaments and joints.
What is sprain?
The name for an injury to muscles or tendons.
What is strain?
The nerve ending(s)/mechanoreceptor(s) that can detect movement across the skin.
What is Meissner corpuscles.
(a) A tendon connects from ____ to ____.
(b) A ligament connects from ____ to ____.
What is (a) muscle ; bone (b) bone ; bone?
The two kinds of cartilage.
What is fibrocartilage and hyaline cartilage?
The fibres smooth muscle is composed of.
What is actin and myosin?
The two kinds of Sudoriferous glands and their function.
What is (a) Eccrine: found throughout the body and produce serous fluid to regulate body temperature and (b) Apocrine: found in the armpit (axilla) and “no-no square” (pubic); produce milky-protein rich sweat?
The four stages of wound healing.
What is hemostasis (stopping of blood), inflammation (controls bleeding and prevents infection), proliferation (growth of tissue cells), and remodeling (scar tissue)?
The disease that causes inflammation of the blood vessels, and thus involuntary activation of immune cells, which leads to producing inflammatory cytokines, and ends with localized inflammation.
What is polymyalgia rheumatica?
The Salter-Harris fracture classification system's function.
What is method used to grade fractures that occur in children and involve the growth plate, which is also known as the physis or physeal plate?
The name for all three connective tissue wrappings.
What is Epimysium, Perimysium and Endomysium?
The minerals released into the bloodstream by Parathyroid Hormone (PTH).
What is calcium and phosphate?