Endocrine System
The control center of the endocrine system
What is hypothalamus?
Erythrocytes and leukocytes.
What is RBC and WBC?
The valve located between the RA and RV.
What is the tricuspid valve?
Cardiac Output =
What is HR x stroke volume?
What you should never let the monkeys eat.
What is bananas?
The peptide hormones are made of lipids, which allows them to go to the nucleus of the cell. (T or F)
What is false?
This protein is found on plasma and is responsible for transportation and retaining water.
What is albumin?
This component is known as the pacemaker and can make the heart beat on average 60-100 bpm.
What is the SA node?
The three layers of arteries and veins.
What is tunica intima, tunica media, and tunica externa?
This gland is known as the "third eye".
What is the pineal gland?
Hormone produced in the posterior p. gland and responsible for retaining water and decreasing urination.
What is ADH? (antidiuretic hormone or vasopressin)
The four main components of blood.
What is plasma, WBC, platelets, and RBC?
They hold the valve in place avoid cardiac regurgitation.
What is chordae tendinae?
The two mechanisms that helps maintaining blood flow in the lower extremities.
What is valves and contraction of skeletal muscles?
The core concepts that we talked about in the week of classes.
What is cell-to-cell communication, energy, flow down gradients, homeostasis, feedback loop components, and mass balance?
The hormones produced by the thyroid glands.
What is T3, T4, and calcitonin?
What is bone marrow?
When comparing skeletal and cardiac muscle contraction, this phase lasts way longer in the cardiac muscle contraction.
What is the absolute refractory period?
Diffusion helps in the capillaries, which is the reason we have a higher blood pressure and low velocity when passing through these vessels. (T or F)
What is false?
The artery that we usually use when measuring blood pressure.
What is brachial?
The three parts of the adrenal cortex.
What is glumerulosa, fasciculata, and reticularis? (GFR!)
The three phases of clotting.
What is vascular, platelet, and coagulation?
During ventricular ejection, the two valves that are closed.
What is mitral and tricuspid valves?
What are the three factors affecting total peripheral resistance?
What is vascular resistance, viscosity, and turbulence?
The name for the stacks that RBC can form to get into a cell.
What is rouleaux?