Endocrine System
This gland is located above the kidneys and controls your flight or flight response.
What is the adrenal gland?
The urinary system in men AND woman consist of these four organs.
What are the kidneys, ureters, bladder, urethra?
This system controls the reproductive processes.
What is the reproductive system?
When cells function without O2 they use this type of metabolism.
What is anaerobic metabolism?
The study of the physical structure of the body and its components.
What is anatomy?
The brain controls this system by using hormones.
What is the endocrine system?
A healthy adult forms this amount of urine every day.
What is 1.5-2 L of urine?
The function of the reproductive system
What is to reproduce?
When cells function with O2 they use this type of metabolism.
What is aerobic metabolism?
Rapid or deep breathing that lowers the blood CO2 level below normal.
What is hyperventilation?
When you are frightened the brain stimulates the adrenal gland through a hormone to release...
What is epinephrine and norepinephrine?
Name the three main functions of the urinary system.
What are to control fluid balance in the body, to filter and eliminate wastes, and to control pH balance?
Located within the male reproductive system, these are storage sacs for sperm and seminal fluid which empty into the urethra at the prostate.
What are seminal vesicles?
The biochemical processes that result in the production of energy from nutrients within the cells.
What is metabolism?
Shock resulting from blocked blood flow back to or through the heart.
What is obstructive shock?
Substances formed in specialized organs or glands and carried to another organ or group of cells in the same organism they regulate they regulate many body functions such as growth, metabolism, and body temperature.
What are hormones?
The wavelike contraction of smooth muscle by which the ureters, or other tubular organs propel their contents.
What is peristalsis?
Sometimes called uterine tubes.
What are Fallopian tubes?
Normal human pH.
What is 7.35-7.45?
The pressure that the blood exerts against the walls of the arteries as it passes through them
What is blood pressure?
The endocrine system is tightly controlled by these to keep body systems in balance.
What are primary and secondary feedback loops?
A cone shaped area that collects urine from the kidneys and funnels it through the ureter to the bladder.
What is renal pelvis?
The ovaries release an egg approximately every this amount of days.
What is 28 days?
The nucleotide used in energy metabolism; used to store energy.
What is Adenosine triphosphate, or ATP?
Sometimes called the little brain.
What is the cerebellum?