Skeleton
The coming together of bones.
What is articulation?
Every muscle has one of these.
What is an action?
The colored part of the eye.
What is the iris?
number of chambers in the heart.
What are 4?
The process of chewing.
What is mastication?
The hardening of cartilage into bone.
What is ossification?
Attaches muscle to bone.
What is a tendon?
Jelly filled, flexible part of the eye.
What is the lens?
Membrane surrounding the heart.
What is the pericardium?
Enzymes that break down proteins.
What is pepsinogen?
Proper name of kneecap.
What is the patella?
Have opposite actions.
What are antagonistic pairs?
Rods and Cones.
What are photo receptors?
Proper name for a heart attack.
What is myocardial infarction?
Enzyme that breaks down starches.
What is an amylase?
Produces white blood cells.
What is yellow bone marrow?
Where muscle attaches to non-moving bone.
What is an origin?
Irregular curvature of the cornea.
What is an astigmatism?
When the heart beats slower than normal.
What is bradycardia?
Group of veins that move nutrients to the liver.
What is the hepatic portal system?
Proper name for white blood cells.
What are leukocytes?
When muscles shrink due to lack of use.
What is atrophy?
The center of the macula lutea.
What is the fovea centralis?
Proper name for a blood pressure machine.
What is a sphygmomanometer?
The chunk of food that you swallow.
What is bolus?