Renal/Urinary System
What is the kidney?
This organ pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
This is the name of the nervous system cell that transmits electrical information
What is a neuron?
This muscular tube carries food from the mouth to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
What is calcium, phosphate, magnesium, zinc, sodium, chloride?
The majority of urine is made up of this substance.
What is water? (95%)
These blood vessels carry blood away from the heart, toward distant parts of the body.
What is an artery?
The brain has this many lobes.
What is 4 lobes
This organ functions to aid in digestion by churning food and secreting acid.
What is the stomach?
This bone is commonly referred to as our collar bone.
What is the clavicle?
These tubes carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder.
What are the ureters?
The heart has this many chambers.
What is 4?
This is a fast, automatic response to a stimulus that stretches a muscle.
What is a reflex? Ex. patellar reflex
These structures produces a specialized fluid in the mouth that helps to lubricate and break down food while we chew.
What are salivary glands?
This is the longest bone of our body.
What is the femur?
Too much salt in your diet can make it difficult for the kidneys to regulate this physiological parameter.
What is blood pressure?
This is the name of the condition that occurs when blood flow is obstructed to the heart and part of the heart tissue dies.
What is a heart attack (myocardial infarction)?
This protective fluid cushions the brain and spinal cord.
What is cerebrospinal fluid?
These are the names of proteins that speed up chemical digestion.
What are enzymes?
This structure connects muscles to bones.
What is a tendon?
This is the main waste product removed from the blood and excreted in urine.
What is urea?
This is the name of the protein found in red blood cells that binds to oxygen.
What is hemoglobin?
This lobe of the brain is responsible for perception and processing of vision.
What is the occipital lobe?
What is the small intestine?
This is where two or more bones meet.
What is a joint?