Unit 5: Integumentary System
This protein helps the skin become water proof
What is keratin?
The blood cell carrying oxygen
What are thrombocytes (Red blood cells)
Pumps blood to the lungs
What is the right ventricle?
Chemical digestion occurs in this organ
What is the small intestine?
Two layers of the skin are affected by aging
What are the dermis (wrinkles) and hypodermis (loss of fat)
The difference between the lymphatic system and the endocrine system
Lymphatic system: fights infections and returns lymph to the blood.
Endocrine system: regulates bodily functions through the production of hormones
The volume of blood pumped out of the heart's left ventricle with each heartbeat
What is stroke volume?
This accessory organ contains enzymes for digestion
What is the pancreas?
The difference between rods and cones
What is rods help detect levels of light (light vs. dark) while cones detect different wavelengths of light to determine colors?
A patient with B blood is in the emergency room and in need of a blood transfusion. Due to a regional blood shortage, the only blood types available are A and AB. Can the patient receive blood? Explain using antigens and antibodies.
No. The patient has Type B blood, so they have B antigen on their surface of their red blood cells. This means have A antibodies in their plasma.
Contains the vocal cord for speech
What is the larynx?
Flow of urine
Kidney (nephron inside renal pyramids, calyx, renal pelvis) --> Ureter --> Bladder ---> Urethra
When this inner ear structure is damaged there may be a loss of balance, nausea, or vertigo
What are the semicircular membranes?
Vaccines are an example of this type of immunity
Artificial immunity
Carries deoxygenated blood to the lungs
The pulmonary artery (trunk)
Brings sperm from the testes into the abdominal cavity
What is the vas deferens?
The pathway that sound travels through the ear
What is: (Auricle) external auditory canal, tympanic membrane, ossicles, oval window, cochlea, auditory nerve
Explain the difference between the thymus and the thyroid gland (include the hormomones they secrete)
Thyroid: THYROXIN butterfly-shaped in the neck, controls metabolism via hormones
Thymus: THYMOSIN immune function (most active in childhood and shrinking with age)
Primary role of diaphragm during inhalation
What is it contracts and flattens, increasing the volume (size) of the thoracic cavity
Explain the difference between the glomerulus, bowman's capsule, and loop of henle
Glomerulus: bundle of capillaries
Bowman’s capsule: tubule where waste products are filtered from the blood.
Loop of Henle: surrounded by veins and is the site of water and salt reabsorption and balance.