Lymphatic
Red bone marrow is found here.
What are the ends of long bones?
The process of supplying oxygen to cells and eliminating CO2.
What is respiration?
What is pancreas, liver, and gallbladder?
The windpipe which is supported by cartilage rings.
What is the trachea?
This major respiratory organ sits in the ribcage.
What are lungs?
These prevent back-flow of lymph only allowing it to flow in one direction.
What are valves?
The tube that transports food to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
This is the opening to the larynx.
What is the glottis?
This J-shaped organ produces gastric juice and functions in food storage.
What is the stomach?
When a person produces their own antibodies.
What is active immunity?
This closes off the glottis to precent food form going in the wrong direction.
What is the epiglottis?
The contractions that move food through the gastrointestinal tract.
What is peristalsis?
This lymphatic duct drains the entire lower body as well as the left side of the upper body.
What is thoracic duct?
What is liver?
Lymphatic organs and vessels are closely associated with this other system.
What is circulatory system
The path of air contains these 6 steps.
What is:
1. Nose or mouth
2. Pharynx
3. Larynx
4. Trachea
5. Bronchi
6. Lungs
The stomach functions in these three things.
What is:
1. food storage
2. production of gastric juice (pepsin)
3. protein breakdown
The filtering structures along lymph vessels that contain lymphocytes and white blood cells.
What are lymph nodes?
This organ stores bile from the liver.
What is gallbladder?
The three functions of the lymphatic system
What is: fluid drainage from injuries, fat absorption, immune defense
When the diaphragm and intercostal muscles contract.
What is inspiration?
The digestive process follows these five steps.
What is:
1. Ingestion (eating)
2. Movement along GI tract
3. Digestion (breakdown)
4. Absorption into bloodstream
5. Defecation
The endocrine/exocrine gland that produces hormones and releases them into the bloodstream. (Sends juice via duct to duodenum)
What is pancreas?
These two divisions of the trachea continually divide into bronchioles.
What are bronchi?