Neurons /brain
Special Senses
Endocrine System
Blood
Heart
100

Controls heart rate, respiratory rate, and blood pressure

What is the brain? 

100

Another name for taste 

What is gustation? 

100

Important endocrine organ that secretes 9 major hormones 

What is the pituitary gland? 
100

Red blood cells

What are erythrocytes? 

100

These protects the heart from being crushed or bumped 

What are the ribs? 

200

The midbrain that contains, thalamus, hypothalamus, and epithalamus 

What is the diencephalon? 
200

The visible colored part of the eye

What is the iris? 

200

This gland is shaped like a pine cone and determines how you feel everyday

What is the pineal gland? 

200

Straw-colored, sticky fluid: contains over 100 different kinds of molecules

What is blood plasma? 

200

Weight of the heart 

What are 300 grams? 

300

The "emotional brain". Responsible for emotions and memories.

What is the limbic system?

300

3 cranial nerves that carry sensory fibers 

What are facial, glossopharyngeal, and vagus nerves? 

300
Rare cell that secretes somatostatin 
What are delta cells? 
300

When leukocytes leave the capillaries by actively squeezing between the endothelial cells that form the capillary walls. 

What is diapedesis? 

300

2 sounds associated with the heart

What are the lubb and dubb? 

400

2 of the 4 nerves that the medulla oblongata controls. 

What are vestibulocochlear and glossopharyngeal? 

(Accept: vagus, and hypoglossal)   

400

Disorder that means without smell, and is caused because of a deficiency of zinc 

What is anosmia? 

400

Organs that contain some endocrine cells (4) 

What are the heart, digestive tract, kidneys, and skin? 

400
An abnormal excess of erythrocytes in the blood 

What is polycythemia? 

400

Each complete heartbeat 

What is the cardiac cycle? 

500

The four lobes of the brain

What are frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal lobes?

500

Shaped like a screw whose tip lies ate the apex of the cochlea 

What is the modiolus? 
500

6 of the 9 endocrine glands 

what are the pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, pineal, pancreas glands? 

(also accept: thymus, hypothalamus, and gonads) 

500

 “Earliest red-formers”: accumulate iron for future production of hemoglobin

What is Proerythroblasts? 

500

This measures your blood pressure that your heart exerts with each contraction of the ventricles

What is sphygmomanometer?