Neurons/Brain
The biggest section of the brain.
What is the cerebrum?
The scientific name for the sense of smell.
What is olfaction?
The kind of tissue cells that hormones specifically influence.
What are target cells?
The scientific name of the blood cells responsible for transporting oxygen throughout the body.
The circuit responsible for carrying blood to and from the lungs.
The nerve that controls the hearing and equilibrium.
What is the vestibulocochlear nerve?
The colored part of the eye.
What is the iris?
The three major types of stimuli for hormonal secretion.
What are humoral, neural, and hormonal stimuli?
The protein that carries oxygen in erythrocytes.
What is hemoglobin?
The triple-layered sac that encloses the heart.
What is the pericardium?
The nerve that controls the tongue and pharynx.
What is the glossopharyngeal nerve?
The taste receptors that occur in peg-like projects of the tongue mucosa.
What is papillae?
The gland that secretes nine major hormones. (Also called the hypophysis.)
What is the pituitary gland?
The process leukocytes use to exit capillaries to travel to infection sites.
What is diapedesis?
The chambers of the heart that receive de-oxygenated blood.
What are the right chambers?
The nerve that controls the thorax and abdomen?
What is the vagus nerve?
The membrane that separates the inner ear from the external ear.
What is the tympanic membrane?
The gland that is pine cone-shaped and secretes melatonin.
What is the pineal gland?
The type of leukocyte that is responsible for turning off allergic responses and killing parasites.
What are eosinophils?
The ventricle that forms the apex of the heart and pumps blood into the systemic circuit.
What is the left ventricle?
The part of the diencephalon that controls hunger and thirst.
What is the hypothalamus?
The gland and series of ducts responsible for keeping the eye moist with tears.
What is the lacrimal apparatus?
The organ that contains both endocrine and exocrine cells; largely is responsible for secreting digestive enzymes into the small intestine during digestion.
What is the pancreas?
What is clotting?
The partition that divides the heart longitudinally between the atria?
What is the interatrial septum?