Skeletal System
Study of bones
What is Osteology?
Study of Muscles
What is myology?
The body's most complex organ
What is the Brain?
Is clear or pale-yellow fluid that contains white blood cells
What is lymph?
Largest organ of the body
What is skin?
The connection between two or more bones
What is a joint?
When performing massage you should move from ____ to ____ of a muscle
What is insertion and origin?
Portion of the nervous system that controls involuntary muscle movement
Name three types of vessels that carry blood away from the heart
What are Aorta, arteries, and arterioles?
These might be called ductless or duct glands
What are endocrine or exocrine glands?
These form the side and top of the cranium
What are the parietal bones?
Broad muscle on top of the skull
What is the Epicranius?
Also know as afferent nerves
What are sensory nerves?
Filter bacteria, viruses, and cancer cells
What are lymph nodes?
Another name for the sweat gland
What is the sudoriferous gland?
U-shaped bone at the base of the tongue
What is the hyoid bone?
Muscle that creates a ring around the eye socket
What is the Orbicularis oculi?
Reaction to an outside stimulus
What is a reflex?
System that carries oxygen-poor blood to the lungs
What is Pulmonary circulation?
Examples are insulin, adrenaline, and estrogen.
What are hormones?
Located on the little toe side of the leg
What is the Fibula?
Muscle that rotates the palm upward
What is the Supinator?
A reflex sends an impulse from the sensory nerve to ______
What is the spinal cord?
Also known as the vascular system
What is the circulatory system?
Otherwise known as the natural covering
What is integument?