Breath Again
Thoracic cavity
What is contains the heart, lungs, trachea, and esophagus
heart, lungs, blood vessels
What is the circulatory system?
What is an axon terminal?
The brain and spinal cord
What is the CNS?
Not the brain and the spinal cord
What is the Autonomic Nervous System?
bowl shaped muscle underneath heart and lungs
What is the diaphragm?
four total in the human heart
What are chambers?
I am released to initiate a new action potential or suppress an an activity
What is a neurotransmitter?
This process may not be completed until you are 30
What is myelienation?
I deliver oxygen to organs/tissues and remove CO2
What is the heart?
air sac(s) in lungs
What are alveoli?
connects right atrium and right ventricle
What is the tricuspid valve?
A neuron taking info from the brain to the body
What is an efferent neuron?
nerve cells that act as macrophages in the brain
What are glial cells?
I connect right ventricle and pulmonary artery
What is the pulmonary valve?
What are bronchioles?
RA ->SVC-->IVC--> TC--> RA--> RV--> PV--> PA lungs--> CO2 release
What is the path of blood flow on right side of heart?
A neuron taking info from body back to brain
What is an afferent neuron?
I am the reason it is difficult to treat brain disease
What is the Blood Brain Barrier (BBB)?
it's fun, it's essential, my parents are making me
What are three reasons to study Human Anatomy and Physiology?
I am lined with flat squamous cells and cuboidal cells
What is the alveolus?
We create the "lub" "dub" sound in the heart
Lub is tricupsid valve close. Dub is semilunar valve closing
Fast neurons that process info in the spine rather than going to brain
Na/K channels return to beginning state in nerve cell
What is resting potential?
We keep lungs clean by vacuuming up dust
What are dust cells