unit 1
The care given to an injured or ill person until help arrives
What is First Aid?
The jostling of the brain inside its covering.
What is a concussion?
Dome-shape muscle responsible for breathing.
The largest lymphatic organ
What is the spleen?
Sends messages to your brain and allows you to smell
What is olfactory receptors?
The three ways to control bleeding
What is pressure, elevation, compression?
Served as your lungs, kidneys, and intestines before you were born
What is the placenta?
Type of exercises that increase your body's ability to transport and process oxygen
What is aerobic?
A person trained to examine eyes and prescribe glasses
What is an optometrist?
Carries sound from the outer ear to the eardrum
What is the auditory canal?
THe object used to immobillize a broken bone
What is a splint?
The control center of the cell
What is the nucleus?
The body's ability to resist a particular disease.
What is immunity?
Part of the brain that controls thinking, reasoning, and memory
What is the cerebrum?
Part of the eye that gives it its color
Serum used for treating snakebites
What is antivenin?
The gland known as the "master gland"
What is the pituitary gland?
The body's first line of defense again disease, also the largest organ
What is the skin?
Type of system made up of the brain and spinal cord
What is the central nervous system?
Name of a break, crack, or chip in a bone.
What is a fracture?
Substances your body needs in order to function properly.
What is nutrients?
Special kind of skin cells that line your mouth, nose and throat
What is mucous membrane?
The "wires" of your communication system
What is nerves?