Muscular System
A tendon connects ___ to ___.
What is muscle to bone?
This part of the part of the brain coordinates voluntary movement.
What is the cerebellum?
The structure that initiates each cardiac cycle.
What is the SA node?
This is the name of the "fatty apron" of the body.
What is the greater omentum?
This bone is the only bone in the human body that does not directly connect to another bone, instead being anchored by muscles and ligaments.
What is the hyoid bone?
This is the name of the enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine.
What is acetylcholinesterase?
These are the two cell types that make up the tissue of the nervous system.
What are neurons and neuroglia?
This is the vein that supplies the left atrium with blood.
What is the pulmonary vein?
This is the sphincter that lies between the stomach and small intestines.
What is the ileocecal sphincter?
This organ can regenerate lost tissue so effectively that up to two-thirds of it can be removed and still grow back to near its original size.
What is the liver?
Neurotransmitters are stored in vesicles located here.
What is at the ending of a motor neuron?
In the CNS myelin is formed by ______.
What are oligodendrocytes?
An enlarged Q wave on an EKG may indicate this.
What is a myocardial infarction (AKA heart attack)?
This is the name for the cells that secrete hydrochloric acid (HCl).
What are parietal cells?
This membrane surrounds the lungs and reduces friction as they expand and contract during breathing.
What is the pleura?
Myofibrils are composed primarily of these protein filaments.
What is actin and myosin?
Cerebrospinal fluid occupies this space in the meninges.
What is the subarachnoid space?
The QRS Complex on an EKG represents this.
What is ventricular depolarization?
This is the vitamin required in combination with intrinsic factor for it to be absorbed.
What is vitamin B12?
If stretched out flat, this organ would cover an area of about 750 square feet - roughly the size of a tennis court.
What are the lungs?
This is the name for the outermost layer of connective tissue surrounding a skeletal muscle.
What is perimysium?
Neurons that conduct impulses from the CNS to muscles or glands are called _____ neurons.
What are motor neurons?
This is the opening of the septum between the right and left atrium of a fetus.
What is the foramen ovale?
These are the four regions of the stomach.
What is the cardiac region, body, pyloric region, and fundic region?
The muscles responsible for goosebumps are a leftover evolutionary feature that once helped our furry ancestors appear larger when threatened.
What are the arrector pili muscles?