ANS (CH. 16)
The autonomic nervous system is divided into what two divisions?
what is sympathetic and parasympathetic.
What (along with the nervous system) helps coordinate the activity of metabolic functions?
What is the endocrine system
The connective tissue that is found throughout the body in the heart and blood vessels...
what is blood
The fist-shaped organ found in the mediastinum of the thoracic cavity...
what is the heart
The tubular, blood deliver structure that begins and ends at the heart...
what are blood vessels
The autonomic nervous system is composed of what two neuron system?
what is preganglionic and postganglionic neurons
The chemical messengers of the endocrine system are called...
what are hormones
This is the straw-colored extracellular matrix of blood...
what is blood plasma
The heart is enclosed in a double-walled sack called the pericardium called the...
what is pericardium
An abnormal ballooning of the wall of a blood vessel, most often associated with arteries....
what is an aneurysm
Parasympathetic postganglionic fibers from the ANS communitae with postganglionic fibers by releasing...
what is acetylcholine
The pea sized gland that sits in the sella turcica of the sphenoid bone...
what is the pituitary gland
what is hemoglobin
Inflammation of pericardium and is most often due to a viral infection...
What is pericarditis
The smallest blood vessels and are composed of only a thin endothelial tunica with basement membrane...
what are capillaries
What receives preganglionic fibser from the thoracic splanchnic nerves and acts as a modified ganglion?
This hormone stimulates uterine contraction during childbirth, it helps trigger ejection of milk...
what is Oxytocin
WBCs, the only formed elements of blood that are complete cells...
what are leukocytes
The right side of heart which receives deoxygenated blood from the body and pumps it to the lungs is called...
what is pulmonary circulation
What is vascular resistance
The adrenal medulla releases...
Ketone levels in the blood rise high enough to cause a drop in pH of blood, this is known as...
what is ketoacidosis
This occurs when an Rh- mother is carrying an Rh+ fetus...
what is hemolytic disease of the newborn
The graphical recording of the electrical events occurring in the heart...
what is an EKG/ECG
The force exerted on a vessel wall by blood within that vessel and is measured in millimeters of mercury, mmHg...
what is blood pressure