Special Senses
The sense of smell is detected by these receptors.
What are chemoreceptors?
These are something that exocrine glands have that endocrine glands do not.
What are ducts?
This chamber pumps blood to the lungs.
What is the right ventricle?
This is the muscular layer of blood vessels, which is thickest in arteries.
What is the tunica media?
This is the disorder caused by a lack of insulin production.
What is type 1 diabetes mellitus?
This is the organ of hearing.
What is the organ of Corti/spiral organ?
This is the antagonistic hormone of insulin.
What is glucagon?
These are all of the vessels that drain into the right atrium.
What are the SVC, IVC, and coronary sinus?
This vein brings blood back from the superficial part of the head.
What is the external jugular vein?
This is the clinical criteria for hypertension.
What is greater than or equal to 140/90?
These nerves bring gustatory information from the tongue to the brain.
What are the facial and the glossopharyngeal nerves?
This hormone raises blood calcium levels by lowering osteoblast activity and raising osteoclast activity.
What is parathyroid hormone?
This artery supplies the lateral portion of the right ventricle.
What is the right marginal artery?
This artery supplies the lateral crural region.
What is the fibular artery?
This is a disorder of the veins characterized by non-functioning valves causing them to bulge.
What are varicose veins?
These are the three cell layers found in the neural layer of the retina.
What are photoreceptor cells, bipolar cells, and ganglion cells?
These are all the secretions from the adrenal glands.
What are Mineralocorticoids, Glucocorticoids, Gonadocorticoids, Epinephrine, and Norepinephrine?
These valves are open during systole and closed during diastole.
What are the semilunar valves?
This is an anastomosis of the veins that drain the superficial antebrachial and brachial regions. It is a common site for IVs and blood draws.
What is the median cubital vein?
This disorder is caused by a short eyeball and fixed by a lens that is thicker in the middle.
What is hyperopia?
These are the enlargements in the semicircular canals which house the hair cells that sense momentum.
What are ampullae?
This endocrine secretion will mature into white blood cells that kill infected and cancerous cells.
What is thymosin?
These are all of the structures involved in the cardiac conduction system (in order)
What are the SA node, AV node, Bundle of His, Bundle Branches, and Purkinje fibers?
This vein merges with the renal artery, but only on the one side of the body.
What is the left gonadal vein?
This disorder is characterized by slowed growth, low metabolism, and intellectual disability.
What is Cretinism?