Cardiac Anatomy
The largest artery in the body?
What is the aorta
The type of muscle that has intercalated discs
What is cardiac muscle.
The ossicle connected to the oval window
What is the stapes?
The type of epithelium on the lungs
What is simple squamous?
The arterial shunt that moves blood from the pulmonary artery to the aorta to bypass the lungs.
What is the ductus arteriosis?
The pericardial space reduces what
What is friction
The type of muscle responsible for digestion
What is smooth muscle
The structure that detects hair cell movement to fire action potentials
What is the tectoral membrane of the Organ of Corti
The component of skin that protects us from UV rays
What are melanocytes?
The organ involved in olfaction that connects the nasal and oral cavities.
What is the vomeronasal organ?
The structures that connect to chordae tendinae that play a role in valve function.
What are papillary muscles?
The type of muscle that can contract voluntarily and involuntarily and an example of each.
What is skeletal muscle
Involuntary: reflex arc
Voluntary: kicking a ball
How we detect different frequencies
What is different hair cell length along the cochlea.
Name 3 accessory structures of the skin
What is sweat glands, sebaceous glands, hair follicles, horns, hooves, nails, quills etc.
An animal that can't produce saliva would lose what sense
What is taste and smell?
Where does deoxygenated blood enter the heart.
What is the cranial and caudal vena cavae.
The structure that houses a group of muscle fibers/cells and the membrane enclosing it
What is a fascicle and the perimysium
What is as air pressure decreases as altitude rises, the pressure on the tympanic membrane decreases, while the pressure on the middle ear is higher, causing the tympanic membrane to bulge out. Vice versa for descending.
The five layers of the epidermis
stratum corneum, stratum lucidum, stratum granulosum, stratum spinosum, stratum basale
How avian downy feathers create insulation
What is create dead air space that gets warmed due to their haphazard arrangement?
The branches of the aorta before the aortic arch and what structures they supply
What is the brachiocephalic trunk (head and right forelimb) and the left subclavian trunk (left forelimb).
Describe how a medication that suppresses the autonomic nervous system may impact the body based on how it would affect muscle.
What happens when we are exposed to prolonged loud noise
The stapedius and tensor tympani muscles contract to stiffen the chain of ossicles to protect the inner ear from damage.
Why do we get blisters and why are they painful
What is a pocket of fluid that forms due to friction between the epidermal pegs and dermal papillae. They are painful since the dermis has nerve endings.
Which species have sweat glands all over their body?
What are horses and primates