Of the clavicle, the vertebral column, the cranium and the mandible, it is the one NOT part of the axial skeleton.
What is the CLAVICLE?
100
This is the scientific name for the "colored" portion of the eye.
What is the IRIS?
100
The right lung has this number of lobes.
What is THREE? (the left lung has two lobes)
100
Blood cells (and all cells for that matter) form from THESE types of cells.
What are STEM CELLS?
100
These are the two types of human gametes.
What are SPERM AND EGG CELLS?
200
The humerus, the tarsals, the talus and the femur are all classified as parts of THIS division of the skeletal system.
What is the appendicular skeleton?
200
Rods and cones are contained in this layer of the eye.
What is the RETINA?
200
The epiglottis, which serves as a "traffic cop" between the respiratory and digestive systems, is composed of THIS TYPE of connective tissue.
What is ELASTIC CARTILAGE?
200
The bicuspid valve is also known as THIS.
What is the MITRAL VALVE?
200
A human sperm cell has this number of chromosomes.
What is 23?
300
There are THIS NUMBER of named bones in the standard adult human skeleton.
What is 206?
300
The anterior compartment of the eye contains this fluid with a funny name.
What is AQUEOUS HUMOR?
300
This protein found in red blood cells is the binding site for oxygen.
What is HEMOGLOBIN?
300
These blood vessels serve the heart muscle itself.
What are CORONARY ARTERIES?
300
The vas deferens, the sperm carrying duct in a male, is cut by a doctor in this medical procedure used as a final means of birth control.
What is a VASECTOMY?
400
This type of joint allows for movement in all planes. The hips and the shoulders are examples.
What is a BALL AND SOCKET JOINT?
400
The middle tunic (layer) of the eye is called THIS.
What is the CHOROID?
400
The "voice box" is contained within this organ.
What is the LARYNX?
400
The inferior vena cava collects blood returning to the heart from HERE.
What is the LOWER BODY?
400
The union of a sperm cell and an egg cell results in the formation of THIS SINGLE CELL, the starting point for all human beings.
What is a ZYGOTE?
500
In this type of fracture, an end of the bone tears through the skin and is exposed to the world for all to marvel at.
What is a COMPOUND (or OPEN) FRACTURE?
500
Of the superior oblique, the inferior rectus, the gluteus maximus or the lateral rectus, it is the muscle that causes the eyeball to turn outward, away from the midline.
What is the LATERAL RECTUS?
500
The trachea divides to form these two pathways.
What are the PRIMARY BRONCHI?
500
This valve prevents blood from backing up into the left ventricle.
What is the AORTIC SEMI-LUNAR VALVE?
500
The term that describes the END of fertility in a human female.