Muscles
A three headed muscle found on the posterior side of the arm, this is responsible for extending the elbow.
What is the tricep?
The small, tube-like structures that carry blood away from the heart to the muscles/organs.
What are arteries?
Oxygen is drawn from outside the body, then moves from the lungs to the bloodstream.
What is external respiration?
This digestive process involves secretions produced by digestive organs.
What is chemical breakdown?
Your lungs peak at this age.
What is age 22-25?
A muscle found on the anterior leg, this is responsible for extending the knee and flexing the hip.
What are the quadriceps?
The fluid part of the blood. It makes up around 55% of your body’s volume.
What is plasma?
a muscle that separates the chest from the abdominal cavity.
What is the diaphragm?
This process involves chewing, mashing, and breaking down food.
What is mechanical breakdown?
This lung is smaller than the other one. (Side)
What is the left lung.
A large, thick, fan-shaped muscle constituting the upper chest's superficial layer
What is the pectoralis major?
Small vessels that carry blood from arteries to small vessels that empty into the veins. (Bring blood to nearly every cell.)
What are capillaries?
This organ removes 70% of all waste in your body.
What are the lungs?
A yellow/green, bitter fluid that is important in the breakdown of fats.
What is bile?
Your heart can beat this many times per day.
What is 100,000 times?
What is the Gluteus Maximus?
These cells make up 40% of your blood, and give the blood it's color.
What are red blood cells?
Air moves from your mouth/nose to your lungs through this smooth muscle, it is also known as the windpipe.
This organ absorbs 90% of all nutrients during digestion.
What is the small intestine?
If all of your blood vessels were stretched end to end, they would stretch out this many miles.
What is 60,000-100,000 miles.
Known as the belly of the leg, this muscle allows plantar flexion in your foot.
What is the gastrocnemius?
The type of cells that allows blood to clot.
What are platelets?
A condition where the trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles become narrow, causing difficulty breathing. During an attack, the muscles contract involuntarily.
What is asthma?
This secretion lines the stomach walls to prevent damage from stomach acid.
What is mucus?
This organ has it's own electrical signal, meaning it works independently from the brain.
What is the heart?