1
The number of major body cavities.
What is 3?
The four main types of body tissues.
What are epithelial, connective, muscle, and nervous?
The number of body systems.
What is eleven?
The number of ATP generated in the Kreb Cycle of cellular respiration.
What is 2?
The process in which lysosomes digest organelles of cells that are no longer functional.
What is autophagia?
The two divisions of extracellular fluid.
Interstitial and intravascular.
Another term for sweat glands.
What are the sudoriferous glands?
Evaporation of sweat _______ the body
What is cools?
The two major glands of the skin.
What are sebaceous and sweat glands?
A fatty substance that helps insulate the axon and speed transmission of impulses. White in color.
What is myelin?
The area where glycolysis takes place in the cell.
What is cytoplasm.
Sweat glands found in the armpits and genitals.
What are apocrine glands?
The term for cell division where one cell divides to form two cells.
What is mitosis?
A layer of connective tissue and fat that supports the two layers of skin.
What is subcutaneous tissue?
The nails are produced by cells in what layer of skin
What is the epidermis?
The number of pairs of ribs.
What is 12 pairs?
The name of the weight bearing portion of the vertebra
What is the body?
What is the name of the joint that can be found in the elbow
What is a hinge joint?
The name for the shaft of the bone.
What is diaphysis?
The three major types of muscles.
What are skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscles?
The contractile unit of skeletal muscle.
What is a sarcomere?
What is synergists?
The term for the constant tension produced by muscles of the body for long periods and is a result of muscle tone.
What is postural maintenance?
This division of the PNS transmits action potentials from the sensory organ to the CNS
What is afferent?
"Factories" in the cell where proteins are synthesized.
What are ribosomes?
The lobe of the brain that is important in voluntary motor function, mood, aggression, and motivation.
What is the frontal lobe?
The three parts of the brainstem.
What is the midbrain, pons, and medulla?
The death of cells or tissues caused by injury or disease.
What is necrosis?
A decrease in cellular size without decreasing the number of cells.
Which infections are easier to prevent than treat
What is viral infections?
Bacteriophages are produced by which infectious microorganisms
What are viruses?
A hormone that is released from the atrial cells of the heart when the pressure in the right atrium increases. It inhibits ADH secretion and reduces the kidney's ability to concentrate urine.
What is atrial natriuretic factor?
An adrenergic receptor that stimulates the contraction of smooth muscle.
What is Alpha-1 adrenergic receptor?
What is the term for stability in the body's internal environment
What is homeostasis?
The result of any condition that increases the concentration of carbonic acid or decreases the concentration of base bicarbonate
What is acidosis?
An ion with a positive charge
What is a cation?
What is ascites?
The term used that describes the kidney's ability to maintain a stable glomerular filtration rate over a wide range of systemic blood pressures.
What is autoregulation?
What is hypokalemia?
The name for the O2-carrying cells that will carry the oxygen from the lungs to the cells and CO2 away from the cells to the lungs
What is hemoglobin?
The term for loss of smell.
The name of the thin white outer layer of the eye
What is the sclera?
What is the hepatic portal vein?
Which cranial nerve conducts impulses from the eye to the brain, where these impulses create the sensation of vision.
What is CN II?
The name of the reflex during infancy that can be described as the toes spreading outward and upward when the sole of the foot is stroked. A normal sign in infancy.
What is babinski reflex?
What is the carina?
The term for the functional units of the respiratory system
What is alveoli?
The name of the gland that produces tears.
What is lacrimal gland?
The term for people ages 61-75 years of age
What is late adulthood?
The right lung is divided into how many lobes
What is 3?