Skeletal System
How many bones are in the body?
206
What are the 3 types of muscle in the human body?
Skeletal, smooth, and cardiac
What are the two main portions of the nervous system?
Central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and peripheral nervous system (nerves outside of the brain and spinal cord that link the CNS to various organs throughout the body).
What quadrant is the gallbladder in?
Right Upper Quadrant
What is a diastolic blood pressure?
Pressure within the arteries when the heart is at rest.
What do ligaments and tendons join?
Ligaments connect bone to bone.
Tendons connect muscles to bone.
What type of muscle tissue is considered voluntary?
Skeletal
The autonomic nervous system is divided into two sections, what are they and what are they responsible for?
Sympathetic Nervous System- fight or flight response.
Parasympathetic Nervous System- rest and digest.
The ______ separates the thorax from the abdominal cavity.
Diaphragm
What is a is a leukocyte and what does it do?
White blood cell and they help fight infection.
What is the opening at the base of the cranium called?
Foramen Magnum
What type of muscle tissue is considered involuntary muscles?
Smooth and Cardiac
What are motor nerves?
Nerves that carry information from the CNS to the muscles of the body.
What organs are in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen?
stomach, spleen, and a portion of the colon
What are the four major types of shock?
Hypovolemic, cardiogenic, obstructive, and distributive (anaphylactic, neurogenic, and septic).
How many vertebra make up the spinal column? How many are in the each sections (cervical, thoracic, lumbar, Sacrum Coccyx)?
33.
Cervical- 7
Thoracic- 12
Lumbar and Sacrum- 5 each
Coccyx- 4
Blood vessels, intestines, cardiac
What are sensory nerves?
Nerves that carry sensations such as taste, touch, smell, heat, cold, and pain from the body to the CNS.
What organs lie in the retroperitoneal space?
Kidneys and pancreas.
(Bonus: abdominal aorta, inferior vena-cava, bladder/ureters)
What hormones does the adrenal glands secreate?
epinephrine, norepinephrine, cortisol
What three bones are fused together to form the two coxae of the pelvic girdle?
Ilium, ischium, and the pubis.
There are more than _____ muscles in the musculoskeletal system.
600
What are the 3 major subdivisions of the brain?
Bonus: What do they do?
Cerebrum- interpreting what we see, hear, and feel; encoding and decoding speech; reasoning and learning; fine motor control; and managing emotions.
Cerebellum- controls balance, muscle coordination, and posture.
Brainstem- controls virtually all involuntary, life sustaining functions, such as heart rate, breathing, temperature regulation, digestion, etc.
What are the exocrine and endocrine functions of the pancreas?
Exocrine- produces enzymes for protein, crab, and fat breakdown in the duodenum
Endocrine- produces insulin and glucagon
What is the formula that indicates the lowest acceptable blood pressure in a pediatric patient?
70+(2 x age)