Bones
U shaped bone that sits between the chin and larynx
What is the hyoid bone?
This is muscle is found only in the heart
What is cardiac muscle?
Two main divisions of the nervous system
What is the central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral nervous system (PNS)?
Another name for erythrocytes
What are red blood cells?
The point of maximum impulse
What is the apex of the heart?
The vertebral column has this many vertebrae.
What is 33?
The continuous state of partial contraction
What is muscle tone?
Allows small molecules to diffuse across the brain but blocks larger molecules
What is the Blood Brain Barrier?
Excess bilirubin that gets into the tissues
What is jaundice?
Valve between the left atrium and left ventricle
What is the mitral (bicuspid) valve?
Another name for kneecap
What is the patella?
Abducts, flexes and rotates the arm
What is the deltoid muscle?
The area where one impulse travels to another one
What is a synapse?
Mature white blood cell
What is a neutrophil?
Blood flows from the lower part of the body back to the heart via this vessel
What is the inferior vena cava?
Area between unfused bones in infant skull
What are fontanels?
The most powerful muscle in the body
Quadriceps femoris
This is why gray matter appears gray
What is that it lacks myelin?
When a blood vessel is injured, the first response in the vessel is this.
What is vascular spasm?
The strongest chamber of the heart
What is the left ventricle?
Inflammation of bone and marrow, usually a bacterial infection
What is osteomyelitis?
Bulging superficial calf muscle
What is the gastrocnemius muscle?
Largest portion of the brain where you think, remember, use judgement and move
What is the cerebrum?
Universal blood donor
What is type O?
The heart's primary pacemaker
What is the SA node?