Integumentary System
The largest organ in the body
What is the SKIN?
When muscle fibers generate tension through shortening or lengthening.
The place in your body where two or more bones meet.
What is a JOINT?
The organ in your head that manages all body functions, from breathing and movement to thinking, feeling, learning, and memory.
A pair of spongy organs in the chest that allow the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the body and the air.
What are the LUNGS?
The skin's outermost protective layer, acting as a barrier against germs and UV rays.
What is the EPIDERMIS?
Tough, fibrous connective tissues that connect muscles to bones.
Tough, fibrous connective tissues that connect muscles to bones.
What are TENDONS?
A thick bundle of nerve tissue, protected by your backbone, that acts as the main communication highway between your brain and the rest of your body.
What is the SPINAL CORD?
The passage by which air reaches a person's lungs.
What are AIRWAYS?
Is the innermost and deepest skin layer.
What is the HYPODERMIS?
A type of voluntary, striated muscle tissue that is attached to bones and responsible for movement, posture, and heat production.
Its main purpose is to connect bones to other bones across a joint.
What is a LIGAMENT?
Cord-like bundles of fibers that act like electrical cables, sending messages (signals) back and forth between your brain and the rest of your body.
What are NERVES?
A dome-shaped muscle that separates the chest cavity (thoracic cavity) from the abdominal cavity.
What is the DIAPHRAGM?
The thick, inner layer of living tissue that lies directly beneath the epidermis.
What is the DERMIS?
An involuntary muscle type found in the walls of hollow organs and passageways, such as the stomach, intestines, and blood vessels.
The soft, spongy tissue found inside the center of your largest bones (like your hip and thigh bones).
The body's main control center, made up of the brain and the spinal cord.
The metabolic process inside cells that uses that oxygen to convert glucose into ATP (energy) and releases carbon dioxide as a waste product.
What is CELLULAR RESPRIRATION?
A Specialized organ or group of cells that produces and releases substances—such as hormones, enzymes, or sweat—needed for specific bodily functions.
What are GLANDS?
The involuntary, striated muscle tissue found only in the heart that is responsible for its contractions to pump blood throughout the body.
What is CARDIAC MUSCLE TISSUE?
It covers the ends of bones where they meet in a joint, acting as a shock absorber to prevent the bones from grinding against each other.
The network of nerves located outside of your brain and spinal cord that connects the central nervous system to the rest of your body.
What is the PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM?
It’s process is important for providing oxygen to all cells and removing carbon dioxide waste from the body.
What is the RESPIRATORY SYSTEM?