Directional
To the side
What is lateral?
What are the functions of the musculosketal system?
Ventilation and oxygenation
What is the purpose of the respiratory system?
Pressure created in the arteries when the left ventricle contracts
What is systolic pressure?
The wave like movement of the intestines
What is peristalsis?
Toward the head
What is superior
Back wall of the pelvis
What is the sacrum?
Heart, blood, blood vessels
What is the cardiovascular system?
Supply of oxygen and nutrients to and removal of wastes from the cells.
What is perfusion?
Microscopic sacs of the sacs of the lungs where gas exchange with the bloodstream takes place
What are the alveoli?
What is proximal?
The wrist bones
What are carpals?
Plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells and platelts
What is blood?
Specialized muscle tissues that conducts electrical impulses that stimulate the heart to beat
What is the conduction system?
Protection, Water balance, temperature regulation, excretion
What is the skin?
The standard reference position
What is anatomical?
Muscle that can be consciously controlled
What are voluntary muscles?
Captures fluids that escapes from cells and tissues and returns it back to the blood stream
What is the lymphatic system?
The active process when the intercostal muscles and the diaphragm contra.
What is inhalation?
Inadequate circulation of blood to the tissues
What is shock? What is hypoperfusion?
Recovery position
What is lateral recumbent?
Specialized involuntary muscle found only in the heart
What is the cardiac muscle?
Controls the body's voluntary and involuntary activity
What is the nervous system?
Oxygen and carbon dioxide between circulating blood and the cells
Glucose converted by the cells into energy
What is ATP?