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Respiratory System
Regulation of Respiration
Blood Cells
Immunity
All Blood All the Time
100
The flap of tissue that prevents food from entering the trachea.
What is the epiglottis
100
The part of the brain that controls respiration.
What is the medulla oblongata?
100
The leukocyte that later differentiates into a macrophage.
What is a monocyte?
100
Four examples of first-line defences.
What is skin, cilia, mucus, stomach acid?
100
The enzyme that converts fibrinogen to fibrin.
What is thrombin?
200
The site of gas exchange.
What is between the alveoli and the capillaries in the lungs?
200
The result of exercise on the pH and CO2 levels of your blood.
What is a decrease in blood pH and higher CO2 levels?
200
The scientific name for platelets.
What is a thrombocyte?
200
The name of the immune response that occurs when the body swells, redness occurs in the area, and there is warmth and pain in the area of infection.
What is an inflammatory response?
200
The name of the compound that removes a blood clot.
What is plasmin?
300
Internal respiration.
What is gas exchange that occurs between the blood and tissue (cells).
300
The specialized sensors that detect changes in blood pH.
What is a chemoreceptor?
300
The leukocytes characterized as granulocytes.
What is a basophil, neutrophil, and eosinophil?
300
The system which attacks bacterial cells by releasing a series of enzymes that catalyze reactions that eventually burst the bacterial cell.
What is the complement system?
300
The result of a blood transfusion between a patient who has a blood type of AB- and a donor who is A+.
What is an unsuccessful transfusion (agglutination of the blood in which the recipient's blood cells burst)?
400
The locations of mucus and cilia in the respiratory system.
What is the nasal cavity and trachea?
400
The muscles that contract and relax during respiration.
What is the diaphragm and intercostal muscles?
400
Two specific places in which erythrocytes are produced.
What is red bone marrow in the skull and vertebrae (or ribs, or ends of long bones)?
400
The function of B cells.
What is to produce antibodies?
400
The result of a blood transfusion, in which the patient is blood type AB+ and the donor is blood type B-.
What is a successful transfusion :)
500
The flow of air from the oral/nasal cavities to the capillaries
What is the oral/nasal cavity --> pharynx --> larynx --> trachea --> left and right bronchi --> bronchioles --> alveoli --> capillaries
500
The location of chemoreceptors in the body.
What is the aorta and carotid arteries?
500
The leukocyte that releases histamines in an allergic reaction.
What is a basophil?
500
The leukocyte that B and T cells originate.
What is a lymphocyte?
500
The name of the affliction that occurs when a mother's anti-Rh antibodies attack her baby's Rh+ blood.
What is erythroblastosis fetalis.