Includes skin and its appendages, such as hair, nails, & skin glands.
What is integumentary system?
_____ is an acute, localized viral infection of the skin. It is essentially a reactivation of the chickenpox virus.
What is Shingles?
The _____ sinuses are located just above the eyebrows.
What are the frontal sinuses?
The ______ is also called the throat.
What is the pharynx?
What action do these have in common (1)?
Temporalis, Masseter, Medial pterygoid
What is Elevation?
The ____ is the thicker inner region of skin & also called corium, or hide.
In women, apocrine gland secretions show cyclic changes linked to __________
What is menstruation?
Also called the voice box
What is the larynx?
Because of the close proximity, respiratory or sinus infections can easily spread to the ____ ____ and vice versa.
What is the middle ear?
The strongest muscle in the body. (based on its weight, not the heart)
What is the Masseter?
Specialized cells, called ______ cells, trigger immunologic reactions.
What is dendritic cells?
Melanoma is a cancer that develops from melanocytes located in the basal layer of the ________ or from benign melanocytic moles.
What is epidermis?
Breathing is also called ______ ____
What is Respiratory Cycle
_________ involves permanent enlargement of the lower airways accompanied by destruction of alveolar walls, affecting its elasticity.
Origins and insertions for the Scalenus Anterior?
What are 1st rib (superior surface) for insertion and for origin C3-C6 transverse processes (anterior surface)?
This is not a true layer of skin, but is often described along with the integumentary system.
What is hypodermis or subcutaneous layer?
____ ______ carcinoma is a skin cancer that arises in the basal, or deepest, layer of the epidermis.
What is Basal Cell carcinoma?
Each lung contains approximately ___ million alveoli, providing an immense surface area.
What are 300 million?
An infection of the lungs
What is Pneumonia?
Which muscle am I?
Action:
Elevates ribs during inhalation
Origins:
Lower nuchal ligament
Spinous processes of C7-T3
Insertion:
Ribs 2-5 (posterior surface)
What is the Serratus Posterior Superior?
Nearly _ ____ of fluid and impurities are lost in each 8 hour period when a person is visibly sweating.
What is 1 pint?
Pacinian corpuscles, or lamellar corpuscles, detect deep pressure, vibration, and stretch, and receive ______ ______ about joint position.
What is proprioceptive information?
How long you can hold your breath is controlled by the amount of ______ ______ that builds up in the blood.
What is carbon dioxide?
_____ ____ is a malignancy of the lungs with approx. 239,320 cases reported in 2011.
What is lung cancer?
The only muscles that moves the head but does not attach to vertebrae.
Mirror image of splenius capitis.
Torticollis is a condition that involves spasms of this muscle.
Central portion is near the carotid artery.
What is the Sternocleidomastoid?