The Circulatory System 1
The body system responsible for circulation of the blood, including the heart, arteries, veins and capillaries.
What is Cardiovascular System?
The nervous system is made up of the central nervous system, the peripheral nervous system and one other system.
What is Autonomic Nervous System?
The process of blood traveling from the heart, throughout the body and back to the heart.
What is General Circulation?
The primary motor nerve of the face.
What is the Facial Nerve?
Over a lifetime, humans produce enough of this fluid to fill two swimming pools.
What is Saliva?
The sticky, salty fluid that circulates through the body, bringing nourishment and oxygen to all parts of the body.
What is Blood?
What the brain, spinal cord and spinal and cranial nerves make up.
What is the Central Nervous System?
This is where the occipital artery supplies blood.
What is the back of the head?
What operates the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems.
What is Autonomic Nervous System?
It weighs about 1 pound at birth and around 4 pounds in adulthood.
What is the brain?
Another name for Red Blood Cells.
What is Erythrocytes?
The crucial part of the central nervous system that is composed of long nerve fibers and originates in the base of the brain and extends to the base of the spine.
The artery that supplies blood to the lower portion of the face, including the mouth and nose.
What is External Maxillary?
The system that breaks food down to be easily absorbed by cells or to become waste products.
What is the Digestive System?
People can be about 1/2 to 1 inch taller in the morning because these structure rehydrate overnight.
What are the Intervertebral Discs?
What is Leukocytes?
The system that is composed of sensory and motor nerves that extend from the spinal cord and brain to other parts of the body.
What is the Peripheral Nervous System?
The artery that supplies blood to the crown and the sides of the head.
What is the Parietal Artery?
The primary function of the Excretory System is to eliminate these 3 things.
What is Solid, Liquid, & Gaseous products?
It is the only organ that can float in water because of its fat content.
What is the Lungs?
Thick-walled vessels that carry oxygenated blood from the heart to various tissues of the body.
What are Arteries?
Motor nerves that carry messages from the brain to the muscles.
What is Efferent?
A subsystem of the circulatory system responsible for releasing white blood cells to help develop immunity.
What is the lymph-vascular system?
Hair growth, skin conditions and energy levels are all controlled by this system.
What is the Endocrine System?
Under certain lighting conditions, this organ can appear to glow due to special pigments.
What is the Liver?