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Lymphatic System
Immune System
Respiratory System
Digestive System
Urinary System
100
This type of fluid enters a lymphatic duct to become lymph
What is interstitial fluid
100
Fever and protective proteins are two parts of what line of defense?
What is the second line of defense
100
These airways constrict during an asthma attack
What are bronchioles?
100
This is a technical term for chewing your food.
What is mechanical digestion?
100
This is the tube that you pee out of.
What is the urethra?
200
These are two of the four lymphoid organs
What are lymph nodes, tonsils, thymus and spleen
200
These lymphocytes mature completely within the bone marrow
What are B lymphocytes
200
In the lungs, gases are exchanged between pulmonary capillaries and these tiny air spaces
What are alveoli?
200
This is an enzyme that breaks down fat.
What is lipase?
200
This is the functional unit of the kidney.
What is the nephron?
300
This is where T-cells mature
What is the thymus
300
This cell performs phagocytosis AND antigen presentation
What is a macrophage
300
Boyle's Law states that when the volume of a space increases, air pressure inside that space does this.
What is decrease?
300
The appendix is attached to this part or the colon.
What is the cecum?
300
This is where all glucose and most water and salt are reabsorbed into the peritubular capillaries.
What is the Proximal Convoluted Tubule?
400
Lymph is "filtered" for germs by this structure
What are lymph nodes
400
These cells produce antibodies
What are plasma cells
400
This opening in the larynx is created when the true and false vocal cords open wide during normal breathing.
What is the glottis?
400
The biliary tree consists of the hepatic duct, the cystic duct, and this.
What is the common bile duct?
400
This is where renin/angiotensin/aldosterone causes the reabsorption of water and sodium.
What is the Loop of Henle?
500
Lymph from the left arm drains into this lymphatic vessel
What is the thoracic duct
500
You are bitten by a snake and given antivenom, an example of this type of immunity
What is artificial, passive immunity
500
This lung volume is described as "the amount of air that you can never breathe out."
What is Residual Volume?
500
These are specialized lymph nodes that absorb fat from the gut.
What are Peyer's Patches?
500
before leaving the kidney, collecting ducts empty finished urine into these structures
What are renal calyces?