Special Senses
The transparent refractive structure of the eye that is between the iris and the vitreous humor
What is lens?
transportation and protection
What is the two main functions of the blood ?
Responsible for transporting nutrients, waste, hormones, body salts, and water to the cells of the body.
What is the cardiovascular system?
Two basic functions of the respiratory system
What is air distribution and gas exchange?
The epithelium covering the inner surfaces of the eyelids and the outer surface of the eyeball.
What is conjunctiva?
slightly alkaline
What is the pH of blood?
Upper Chambers of the heart?
What is Atria?
helps to change the size of the lung chambers
What is the diaphragm?
Organs that create chemicals that help the small intestines break down food
What are liver, gallbladder, pancreas?
Enclose slender semicircular ducts.
What is semicircular canal?
a mixture of water, food, oxygen, carbon dioxide, hormones, salts, plasma proteins, and waste products
What is Plasma ?
The valve does not close all of the way so blood leaks back into the chamber that it just left.
What is the incompetent mitral valve?
a membrane that covers the lungs and lines the thoracic cavity
What is pleura?
Makes bile, breaks down and eliminates toxins, such as nitrogen containing compounds
What is liver?
The fibrous, outer layer of the eye that forms the white area of the anterior surface.
What is Sclera ?
AN inherited X-linked disorder where the person lacks one of more plasma proteins needed for blood clotting.
What is Hemophilia?
The layers of the heart going from the inside to the outside of the heart
What is endocardium, myocardium, epicardium?
Breathing
What is Ventilation?
Long hollow tube where most absorption of nutrients occurs. Many villi to help absorb.
What is small intestine?
The bones of the middle ear: malleus, incus and stapes
What is Auditory ossicles?
White Blood cells and red blood cells
What is leukocytes and Erythrocytes?
Hardening of the arteries
What is atherosclerosis?
the membrane that lines the inside of most tubes of the respiratory system
What is respiratory mucosa?
What is three ways that food is processed in the body?
What is digestion, absorption, elimination?