Neurons /brain
Controls heart rate, respiratory rate, and blood pressure
What is the brain?
Another name for taste
What is gustation?
Important endocrine organ that secretes 9 major hormones
Red blood cells
What are erythrocytes?
These protects the heart from being crushed or bumped
What are the ribs?
The midbrain that contains, thalamus, hypothalamus, and epithalamus
The visible colored part of the eye
What is the iris?
This gland is shaped like a pine cone and determines how you feel everyday
What is the pineal gland?
Straw-colored, sticky fluid: contains over 100 different kinds of molecules
What is blood plasma?
Weight of the heart
What are 300 grams?
The "emotional brain". Responsible for emotions and memories.
What is the limbic system?
3 cranial nerves that carry sensory fibers
What are facial, glossopharyngeal, and vagus nerves?
When leukocytes leave the capillaries by actively squeezing between the endothelial cells that form the capillary walls.
What is diapedesis?
2 sounds associated with the heart
What are the lubb and dubb?
2 of the 4 nerves that the medulla oblongata controls.
What are vestibulocochlear and glossopharyngeal?
(Accept: vagus, and hypoglossal)
Disorder that means without smell, and is caused because of a deficiency of zinc
What is anosmia?
Organs that contain some endocrine cells (4)
What are the heart, digestive tract, kidneys, and skin?
What is polycythemia?
Each complete heartbeat
What is the cardiac cycle?
The four lobes of the brain
What are frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal lobes?
Shaped like a screw whose tip lies ate the apex of the cochlea
6 of the 9 endocrine glands
what are the pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, pineal, pancreas glands?
(also accept: thymus, hypothalamus, and gonads)
“Earliest red-formers”: accumulate iron for future production of hemoglobin
What is Proerythroblasts?
This measures your blood pressure that your heart exerts with each contraction of the ventricles
What is sphygmomanometer?