Organ Systems and Terminology
The cephalad region of your head is ____ to the caudal region of your body.
What is superior?
Hormones are carried throughout the body by this.
What is blood or lymph?
This is made up of water, salts, and proteins like albumin.
What is plasma?
The inner most layer of the heart wall.
This plane divides the body into superior and inferior parts.
What is transverse plane?
This group of hormones cannot move through the membrane of its target cell on its own.
What is a peptide hormone?
This lacks a nucleus and is the most abundant component of the formed elements.
What is an erythrocyte (RBC)?
Pulmonary and aortic valves are also known as this valve.
Semilunar
This serous membrane lines the cavities found in our bodies.
What is parietal membrane?
This controls the pituitary gland.
What is the hypothalamus?
This is a type of cell that is polymorphonuclear.
What is granulocyte?
This is also known as your "heart strings"
What is chordae tendineae?
This body system contains accessory structures such as the pancreas and salivary glands.
What is the digestive system?
This disease is caused by a hyposecretion of insulin and when the immune system destroys cells that produce insulin. (BE SPECIFIC)
What is Type 1 diabetes mellitus?
This cell releases histamine during an immune response.
What is basophil?
This structure returns the blood from your body to the right atrium.
What is the superio/inferior vena cava.
This body system helps maintain the acid-base balance of the blood.
What is the urinary system?
Hyposecretion of this hormone leads to diabetes insipidus.
What is antidiuretic hormone?
Type B and it is lethal!
List the path that blood takes from the lungs to the aorta in order. (include valves)
lungs, pulmonary veins, left atrium, mitral valve, left ventricle, aortic valve, aorta.