Integumentary
The top layer of the skin.
What is the epidermis?
The name for the stripes on muscle tissue that are caused by the arrangement of sarcomeres.
What are striations?
The type of bone found in your arms and legs that acts as a lever.
What is a long bone?
The two main areas that make up the central nervous system.
What are the brain and spinal cord?
The type of cell that makes up myelin sheath in the peripheral nervous system.
What are Schwann cells?
The term to describe the widening of blood vessels as a response to increased temperature.
What is vasodilation?
A thigh muscle that extends the knee and is on the anterior side of your body.
What are the quadriceps?
The term to describe a fracture that does not tear through the skin.
What is a closed fracture?
The name of the cell body.
What is the soma?
What is a second degree burn?
The bottom layer of the epidermis.
What is stratum basale?
The basic functional unit of muscle contraction. It is inside of muscle fibers.
What is a sarcomere?
The type of bone that is found in your kneecaps.
The subdivision of your nervous system that activates during your "fight or flight."
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
The muscle that contracts as you breathe in.
What is the diaphragm?
The layer of the epidermis only found in thick skin.
What is the stratum lucidum?
The action the sliding filament theory describes.
What is muscle contraction?
The first step to bone fracture reparation.
What is hematoma formation?
The subcortical structure responsible for converting short-term memories to long-term, as well as for helping you remember what to say (verbal memory).
What is the hippocampus?
The subdivision of your nervous system that regulates voluntary actions.
What is the somatic nervous system?
The fiber responsible for providing structure to the skin that is found in the dermis.
What is collagen?
What the thick and thin filaments involved in the pull and release mechanism of the sliding filament theory are made of.
What are actin and myosin?
The type of bone only found in your wrists and ankles; it is cube-shaped.
What is short bone?
The term for the GAPS in the axon that are not covered in myelin sheath.
The specific sublayer in which keratinocytes are produced.
What is the stratum basale?