Musculoskeletal
Respiratory
Cardiovascular
Nervous System
Anatomy
100

Consists of the skull, spine, ribs, sternum, upper and lower extremities, and pelvis.  It gives the body shape and allows movement.

What is skeleton

100

The purpose of the respiratory system, also known as the pulmonary system.

What are ventilation and oxygenation?

100

It is the primary organ of the cardiovascular system that pumps blood throughout the body.  Also, the Tin Man wanted one.

What is the heart?

100

This fluid surrounds and coats the parts of the nervous system.  Interestingly you can get a blood glucose reading off of it.

What is cerebrospinal fluid?

100

These connect bones to each other.

What are ligaments?

200

This bony structure is made up of many different parts, the largest pieces of which protect the brain.

What is the skull?

200

This is a passive process that expels carbon dioxide from the body.

What is exhalation?

200

These are the four valves in the heart.

What are the Pulmonary, Tricuspid, Aortic, and Bicuspid or Mitral valves

200

This is composed of the brain and spinal cord.  

What is the central nervous system?

200

These are components of the circulatory system.

What are the heart, veins, arteries, capillaries, and blood?

300

The three types of muscle.

What are voluntary, involuntary, and cardiac?

(Smooth or striated may also be accepted)

300

Also known as the "windpipe", your medic partner may place a tube here to breathe for the patient.

What is the trachea?

300

This is the technical name of cardiac muscle.

What is Myocardium?

300

This can be broken down into the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems.  It is responsible for regulation of things like digestion and heart rate.

What is the autonomic nervous system?

300

The superior and widest portion of the pelvis.

What the ilium?

400

The U-shaped bone that is commonly called the "Adam's apple" is the:

What is hyoid.

400

Small sacs in the lungs, this is where gas exchange takes place.

What are alveoli?

400

These four arteries feed the heart muscle.

What are the Right Coronary, Left Coronary, Anterior Descending, and the Circumflex arteries, also known as the coronary arteries.

400

This system has two basic types of components, sensory and motor.  One carries messages to the brain, while the other transmits to the spinal cord for immediate action.

What is the peripheral nervous system?

400

This is the hearts ability to generate and conduct electrical impulses on its own.

What is automaticity?

500

These 5 sections of the spine are listed in order from top to bottom.

What are the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccyx vertebrae?

500

This controls the large muscular structure that divides the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity.

What is the phrenic nerve?

500

This is the path that blood follows through the body, starting at the heart.

What is the aorta to arteries to arterioles to capillaries to venules to veins to the vena cava?

500

This system is responsible for keeping us awake.

What is reticular activating system?

500

Glucose is converted into energy in the form of this.

What is ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate)