Skeletal Scavenger Hunt
A shaft with two ends, more long than wide, and a marrow-filled cavity
The components of the central nervous system
What is the brain and spinal cord?
The blood vessel that carries deoxygenated blood from the body to the heart
What is a vein?
Thin layers of spongy bone surrounded by compact bone, in atypical shapes
What is an irregular bone?
The components of the peripheral nervous system
What are all of the motor nerves and sensory nerves that branch from the spinal cord?
A layer of spongy bone between two thin layers of compact bone containing marrow, but no marrow cavity
What is a flat bone?
The part of the brain governs emotions, problem solving, planning, reasoning, speech, and movement
What is the cerebrum?
The muscle that pumps blood through vessels to and from all parts of the body
What is the heart?
A cube-shaped bone, consisting mostly of spongy bone and is approximately equal in length, width, and thickness
What is a short bone
The destination of hormone that is released by glands into the bloodstream
What are target cells?
Another name for the fibula
What is the calf bone?
The function of the myelin sheath
What is speeds up the rate at which the chemical messages are passed through an axon?
Vessel that exchanges gases and nutrients with other body tissues and the blood
What are capillaries?
The scientific name for the shoulder blade
What is the scapula?
The deoxygenated blood from the heart is carried by this vessel
What is the pulmonary artery?
The bone located in the lower back.
The parts of the brain are responsible for controlling movement
What are the motor cortex and cerebellum?
The gland that releases hormones that control the sleep wake cycle
What is the pineal gland?
The type off joint that allows backwards and forwards and side to side motion, but no rotation?
What is a saddle joint?
Gland that releases insulin and glucagon
What is the pancreas?
A mass of clotted blood that forms between between broken bones
What is a hematoma?
A person suffers from an illness that causes them to feel extremely thirsty most of the time; The part of the brain that is most likely affected by this illness
What is the hypothalamus?
The gland that helps control the release of hormones at all other glands
What is the pituitary gland?
The structure that connects bone to bone
What is a ligament?
In the systemic circuit blood comes back into the heart by entering through the right atrium from this vessel?
What is the vena cava?