Cardiovascular System
The chamber of the heart where deoxygenated blood arrives from the vena cava(s).
What is the right atrium?
There are 12 of these structures, and they innervate the head and neck and are responsible for both sensory and motor signals.
What are the cranial nerves?
The structures are where gustatory cells are found.
What are taste buds?
This endocrine organ secrete hormones that signal to all other endocrine organs. It is coined the cardinal endocrine organ.
What is the hypothalamus?
These structures are located throughout your body to filter lymph.
What are lymph nodes?
Branch of the descending abdominal aorta that branches into the left gastric artery, splenic artery, and common hepatic artery.
What is the celiac trunk?
In this structure, grey matter is deep to white matter.
What is the spinal chord?
This cranial nerve transmits sensory information from the cochlea and vestibule in the inner ear.
What is the vestibulocochlear nerve? What is CN VIII?
This endocrine organ has two names and secrete growth hormone, thyroid stimulating hormone, and adrenocorticotropic hormone.
What is the anterior pituitary gland? What is the anedohypophysis?
These organs have crypts that penetrate the epithelium, allowing fluid to flow deep into the organ and make contact with the lymphoid tissue.
What are tonsils?
Drains blood from the outside of the head to the subclavian veins.
What are the external jugular veins?
This nerves continues down the anterior side of the thigh, branching off of the lumbar plexus.
What is the femoral nerve?
Sound waves pass through this structure to get from the scala vestibuli to the scala media (cochlear duct).
What is the vestibular membrane?
These cells secrete calcitonin in the thyroid.
What are parafollicular cells?
This region of the spleen is filled with macrophages that attack and destroy damaged erythrocytes.
What are the splenic sinuses? What is red pulp?
This vein continues into the thigh as the femoral vein towards the hip.
What is the popliteal vein?
These structures connect the hindbrain to the right and left cerebellar hemisphers.
What are the cerebellar peduncles?
These cells transmit information between photoreceptor cells and optic nerve ganglion cells in the eye.
What are bipolar cells?
This layer of the adrenal gland cortex secretes androgens.
What is the zona reticularis?
This organ is most robust in babies and children and is responsible for lyphocyte production and training.
What is the thymus?
The ductus arteriosus links this structure to the aorta during gestation to allow blood to bypass the lungs and flow to the systemic circuit.
What is the pulmonary trunk?
Nuclei of these cells are found in the white matter of the spinal cord. They insulate the axons in the tissue from each other.
What are oligodendrocytes?
When this structure is damaged, a patient might lose control of their superior rectus, medial rectus, and inferior rectus muscles.
What is the oculomotor nerve? What is CN III?
This hormone is produced by the neurohypophysis and regulates the urinary system.
What is vasopressin?
These structures are projections of the thick capsule on lymphatic strucutres that extend into the cortex.
What are trabeculae?