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Muscle Contraction
The Endocrine System
Directional Terms
Disease Terms
Blood
100
The thick filament involved in muscle contraction.
What is myosin?
100
The name for the structure that stores sperm.
What is the epididymus?
100
The lungs are ________ to the heart.
What is lateral?
100
The cause of a disease.
What is etiology?
100
This type is the universal donor.
What is type O?
200
A neurotransmitter needed for muscle contraction to occur.
What is acetylcholine?
200
The gland that is responsible for maturation of certain kinds of white blood cells; namely the T cells.
What is the thymus gland?
200
The toes are ________ to the knee.
What is distal?
200
The study of the frequency, transmission, and location of a disease.
What is epidemiology?
200
What is considered the universal recipient?
What is Type AB?
300
A bundle of muscle cells.
What is a myofibril?
300
The body's natural process to keep hormones at a "set point."
What is homeostasis?
300
The biceps brachii is located on the ___________ part of the arm when a person is standing in anatomical position.
What is anterior?
300
The term used to describe an infection caught while someone is in the hospital.
What is nosocomial?
300
The general name for the B and T cells.
What are lymphocytes?
400
A disease caused by the bacterium Clostridium tetani?
What is tetanus?
400
The glands that are as small as tiny grains of rice and are located on the back of the thyroid gland.
What are the parathyroid glands?
400
The movements of flexion and extension happen in this plane.
What is sagittal?
400
The term for a disease that can be spread from person to person-usually by coughing, sneezing, or direct contact.
What is contagious?
400
This particle or cell is the most numerous in 1 cc of blood.
What is a red blood cell?
500
A disease that involves the neuromuscular junctions of muscle cells and usually starts in the eye muscles?
What is Myasthenia gravis?
500
Name a glandular disorder (condition) in which a person can be extra tall.
What is giantism?
500
This type of plane would divide our head into equal front and back halves.
What is frontal?
500
This is a clotting disease that happens in children.
What is hemophilia?