Digestion
This organ produces bile
What is the liver?
These vessels contain one-way valves.
What are veins?
The fluid portion of the blood.
What is plasma?
The area in the back of the oral cavity.
What is the pharynx?
This is the part of a neuron which transmits an electrical current.
What is the axon?
Secretes acid and pepsin
What is the stomach?
This is the phase of heart contraction.
What is systole?
This component of blood is essential in the immune response.
What are white blood cells? (or Leukocytes)
The small sac like structures in the lung tissue.
What are alveoli (singular; alveolus)?
These are the 4 lobes of the brain.
What are the frontal, temporal, parietal and occipital?
This is where fats are digested
Where is the small intestine (or duodenum)
The "pacemaker" of the heart.
What is the SA (sinoatrial) node?
This protein binds readily to oxygen.
What is hemoglobin?
Measured by taking a deep inhale and fully exhaling.
What is vital lung capacity?
The parts of the brainstem.
What are the pons, medulla oblongata and midbrain?
This is the function of the villi.
What is to increase surface area for nutrient absorption?
The vessel that delivers blood to the right atrium.
What is the vena cava?
This is the condition called Atherosclerosis.
What is a narrowing of blood vessels blocked by fatty-deposits called plaques?
The exchange that occurs between the blood stream and body tissues. (specific in/out)
What is diffusion of CO2 and wastes into the capillary and O2 and nutrients into cells?
The function of the cerebellum.
What are coordination and balance?
This is where polysaccharides begin chemical digestion.
Where is the mouth (salivary amylase)?
This is the name of the valve between the left atria and ventricle.
What is the Mitral (or bicuspid atrioventricular) valve?
People of this blood type can receive blood of any other type. (and why)
What is AB+ ? (contain all antigens on blood cells, and NO antibodies in the plasma)
These are the stages of inhalation.
When the Rib muscles and diaphragm contract, the chest volume increases and internal air pressure decreases?
These are the effects of the sympathetic nervous system. (give at least 5)
What nervous system increases heart rate, dilates airways, slows digestion, dilates pupils, releases energy from storage, sweating?