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This system controls the steady circulation of the blood through the body by means of the heart and blood vessels
What is the circulatory system?
This system is a group of specialized glands that affect the growth, development, sexual functions, and health of the entire body
What is the endocrine system?
These nerves carry impulses or messages from the sense organs to the brain, where sensations such as cold, heat, sight, sound, taste, smell, pain, and pressure are experienced
What are sensory nerves?
The connection between two or more bones of the skeleton
The body system that covers, shapes, and holds the skeletal system in place and moves various parts of the body
What is the muscular system?
This organ keeps the blood moving within the circulatory system
What is the heart?
The secretory organs remove and release certain elements from the blood to convert them into new compounds
What are glands?
The largest of the cranial nerves; also known as the trifacial nerve or trigeminal nerve
The fifth cranial nerve?
The bone that forms the forehead
What is the frontal bone?
The part of the muscle that does not move and is attached closest to the skeleton
What is the origin?
This system takes deoxygenated blood to the lungs for oxygenation and waste removal
What is pulmonary circulation?
What are hormones?
Known as efferent nerves, these carry impulses from the brain to the muscles or glands
What are motor nerves?
The U-shaped bone at the base of the tongue that supports the tongue and its muscles; it is the one and only bone of the throat
What is the hyoid bone?
The "front" portion of the epicranius, this scalp muscle raises the eyebrows, draws the scalp forward, and causes wrinkles across the forehead
What is the frontalis?
These small vessels connect the capillaries to the veins
What are venules?
Plays a major role int sexual development, sleep, and metabolism
What is the pineal gland?
Originating in the brain and extending down the lower extremity of the trunk, these thirty-one pair of nerves are distributed tot he muscles and skin of the trunk and limbs
What is the spinal cord?
These two bones form the sides and top of the cranium
What are the parietal bones?
Covering the bridge of the nose, this muscle is responsible for lowering the eyebrows and causing wrinkles across the bridge of the nose
This artery supplies blood to the skin and muscles of the scalp and back of the head up to the crown
What is the occipital artery?
This gland affects almost every physiologic process of the body
What is the pituitary gland?
This division of the nervous system controls the involuntary muscles, regulating the action of the smooth muscles, glands, blood vessels, heart, and breath
What is the autonomic nervous system (ANS)?
Also known as digits, the bones of the fingers or toes
What are phalanges?
The tendon that connects the occipitalis and frontalis muscles
What is the epicranial aponeurosis?