Musculoskeletal System
This connective tissue connects muscle to bone.
What is a tendon?
These cells are primarily responsible for transporting oxygen in the blood.
What are red blood cells (erythrocytes)?
This dome-shaped muscle plays a key role in inhalation.
What is the diaphragm?
This gap between neurons is where neurotransmitters are released.
What is the synaptic cleft (or synapse)?
Women typically should start getting this annual screening for cancer around 40 years old.
What is a mammogram?
These bones form the central axis of the body, including the skull, vertebral column, and rib cage.
What are axial bones?
These tiny blood vessels are the sites of exchange between blood and tissues.
What are capillaries?
This structure, also known as the voice box, is located between the pharynx and trachea.
What is the larynx?
This part of a neuron receives incoming signals.
What are dendrites?
A medical imaging technique using x-rays and a computer to create a detailed 3D view of the body's structure
What is a CT (Computed Tomography) Scan?
The ADULT human skeleton typically consists of this many bones.
What is 206?
These vessels carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
These tiny air sacs in the lungs are the primary sites of gas exchange.
What are alveoli?
This type of neuron carries messages from the CNS to muscles or glands.
What is a motor neuron?
The treatment of disease, injury, or deformity by physical methods such as massage, heat treatment, and exercise rather than by drugs or surgery.
What is physical therapy?
This type of muscle tissue is involuntary and found in the walls of internal organs.
What is smooth muscle?
This chamber of the heart receives oxygenated blood from the lungs.
What is the left atrium?
These two branches of the trachea lead into the lungs.
What are the bronchi?
This part of the eye contains photoreceptor cells that detect light.
What is the retina?
Form of alternative medicine concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system, especially of the spine.
What is chiropractic medicine?
This protein, along with actin, plays a crucial role in muscle contraction.
What is myosin?
This circuit carries deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs and back.
What is the pulmonary circulation?
This term describes the process of moving air into and out of the lungs using inhalation/exhalation.
What is ventilation?
This system activates the “fight or flight” response.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
A practice that analyzes patterns and colors in the iris of the eye to gain insights into a person's overall health.
What is iridology?