GENERAL ANATOMY
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PHYSIOLOGY
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PHYSIOLOGY
The basic unit of all living things
What are cells?
The study of anatomy, structure, and function of the bones.
What is Osteology?
CNS stands for...
What is the Central Nervous System?
A muscular, cone shaped organ that keeps the blood moving within the circulatory system.
What is the Heart?
What system's primary function can include carrying nourishment from the blood to the body cells.
What is the Lymphatic/Immune System?
Structures composed of specialized tissues designed to perform specific functions.
What are organs?
The involuntary muscle that is the heart.
What is the Cardiac Muscle?
The largest and most complex nerve tissue in the body.
What is the brain?
There are approximately how many pints of blood in the human body?
What is 10 pints of blood.
Sweat and oil glands of the skin belong to this group.(hint: group, not system)
What is Duct glands (or exocrine glands) ?
The human body is composed of how many systems
What are 11 major systems?
The part of the muscle at the more movable attachment to the skeleton.
What is the Insertion?
The primary structural unit of the nervous system.
What is a neuron or nerve cell?
The largest artery in the body.
What is the Aorta?
Tissues composed of microscopic cells in which inhaled air is exchanged for carbon dioxide.
Fibrous tissue that binds together, protects, and supports the various parts of the body. (hint: an example would be fat or adipose tissue)
What is Connective Tissue?
The uppermost and largest bone of the arm.
What is the Humerus?
An automatic reaction to a stimulus that involves the movement of an impulse from a sensory receptor nerve to the spinal cord.
What is a reflex?
They bring nutrients to the cells and carry away waste materials.
What are Capillaries?
The system that is responsible for purifying the body by eliminating waste.
What is the Excretory System?
When the cell divides into two identical cells and daughter cells, this process is known as ...
What is Mitosis?
Muscles that separate the fingers.
What are Abductors?
Portion of the CNS that originates in the brain, extends down to the lower extremity of the trunk, and is protected by the spinal column.
What is the Spinal Cord?
The upper, thin walled chambers of the heart are called...
What is the left and right Atrium?
Chemicals that change certain kinds of food into a form that can be used by the body.
What are Digestive Enzymes?