Respiratory System
Another word for your windpipe
What is a trachea?
The number of chambers in the heart?
Muscles that move on their own without you thinking about them
What are involuntary muscles?
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What is the number of bones in the skeletal system?
What is the mouth?
The gas that leaves the body when you exhale
What is carbon dioxide or CO2?
Structure in the heart and veins that prevent the backflow of blood.
What are valves?
What is a dense band that connects skeletal muscles to bones?
What is a tendon?
Root word meaning bone.
What is osteo?
Responsible for the first part of mechanical digestion in the mouth.
What is the teeth?
The act of breathing air in.
What is inhalation or inspiration?
Right and Left Atrium and Right and Left Ventricle
What are the names of the chambers of the heart?
Which muscles are involuntary and can be found in the heart?
What is cardiac muscle?
To help you move, to protect your internal organs, and to produce red blood cells in bone marrow
What is the function of the skeletal system?
The tube that runs from your mouth to your stomach
What is the esophagus?
The two large tubes at the end of the trachea
What are bronchi/bronchus?
The largest vein bringing deoxygenated blood to the heart.
What is the vena cava?
What is the thin muscle that separates the thoracic and abdominal cavities?
What is the diaphragm?
Point of connection between two bones.
What are the joints?
Breaks food down in the stomach
What are gastric juices?
A dome-shaped muscle under the lungs
What is the diaphragm?
The circulation that is between the heart and the organs of the body.
What is systemic circulation?
What type of muscle is attached to bones and has a striated appearance?
What are skeletal muscles?
The function of the flat bone.
What is protects internal organs?
Food travels here after leaving the stomach
Where is the small intestines?
The medical condition that is commonly known as a sore throat.
What is pharyngitis?
The organ that allows oxygen to get into the blood
What are the lungs?
Which muscles are used to pucker the lips?
What is orbicularis oris?
The smallest bone in the body
What are the ossicles?
The first part of the small intestine
What is the duodenum?
The tiny air sacs at the end of each bronchial
What are alveoli?
The largest artery and the one under the greatest pressure in the human body.
What is the aorta?
Bladder, stomach, and intestines
What are smooth muscles?
The bone that protects your brain
What is the skull, cranium, or cranial bones?
Part of the body that absorbs water and salt
What are the large intestines?
The very small blood vessels that cover the alveoli
What are capillaries?
Vessels on the heart muscle that supplies the heart with oxygen.
What are coronary arteries?
Where is the sternocleidomastoid located?
What is the neck?
The two types of skeleton.
What is Axial and Appendicular?
The organ that produces bile
A cycle of inspiration and expiration is know as.
What is respiration?
Vessels where gas exchange occurs.
What are capillaries?
Which of the characteristics of muscles allows the muscle to return to its original state when relaxing?
What is elasticity?
Osteocarcinoma.
What are cancerous tumors of the bones?
The organ that stores bile
What is the gallbladder?
The smaller tubes found in the lungs
What are the bronchioles?
The last chamber that the blood flows through in the heart
What is the left ventricle?
What are the four types of muscles?
What are skeletal, smooth, cardiac, and sphincter?
Blood cell formation in the bones.
What is Hemopoises?
The part of the body that absorbs vitamins and minerals
What are the small intestines?