Chapter 2: Anatomy & Physiology

Question 1

What is the primary function of the respiratory system?

Answer 1

Breathing

Question 2

How many identical daughter cells are formed when a cell divides during mitosis?

Answer 2

2

Question 3

What is the primary function of the lymphatic/immune system?

Answer 3

Protecting the body from disease

Question 4

You use this muscle to smile, but not grin?

Answer 4

Levator Anguli Oris

Question 5

What bone forms the back of the skull?

Answer 5

Occipital

Question 6

What is true of the pituitary gland?

Answer 6

It is the most complex organ of the endocrine system

Question 7

This muscle is used to grin.

Answer 7

Risorius Muscle

Question 8

What are the sensations that the endocrine glands release directly into the bloodstream and that influence the welfare of the entire body?

Answer 8

Hormones

Question 9

Why is important for an esthetician to know about the muscles of the forearm?

Answer 9

To maintain the body’s mechanics

Question 10

What is the importance of lymph?

Answer 10

To disperse white blood cells and cell nutrients

Question 11

What are the three muscles of the ear called?

Answer 11

Auricularis muscles

Question 12

Which movement separates the fingers?

Answer 12

Abduction

Question 13

What is the nutritive fluid flowing through the circulatory system?

Answer 13

Blood

Question 14

What does the parathyroid gland regulate blood calcium and phosphorous levels?

Answer 14

So the nervous system can function properly

Question 15

What is the primary function of the skeletal system?

Answer 15

Providing the physical function of the body

Question 16

When you show someone your muscles on your arm, you are most likely showing them your_______?

Answer 16

Biceps

Question 17

What is sternum?

Answer 17

Flat bone that forms the ventral support of the ribs

Question 18

What muscle is thin and flat between the upper and lower jaw that compresses the cheeks and expels air between the lips?

Answer 18

Buccinator

Question 19

Where in the body does the spinal cord originate?

Answer 19

Brain

Question 20

What binds the tissue of the body together?

Answer 20

Connective tissue

Question 21

What is the primary function of the circulatory system?

Answer 21

Moving blood through the body

Question 22

What body system is responsible for changing food into nutrients and waste?

Answer 22

Digestive

Question 23

Connective, epithelial, muscle, and nerve are types of what found in the body?

Answer 23

Tissue

Question 24

Which large, flat, triangular muscle covers the lower back?

Answer 24

Latissiumus dorsi

Question 25

What are valves?

Answer 25

Structures that close a passage or permit flow in one direction

Question 26

How does massage help the muscles of the hand?

Answer 26

Maintain pliability

Question 27

What body system serves as a protective covering for the body?

Answer 27

Integumentary

Question 28

What is covered, shaped, and supported by the muscular system?

Answer 28

Skeletal tissue

Question 29

Which body system eliminates carbon dioxide as a waste product?

Answer 29

Respiratory

Question 30

What are platelets?

Answer 30

Blood components that contribute to the blood clotting process

Question 31

The kidneys and bladder are part of this system.

Answer 31

Excretory

Question 32

Which body system controls and coordinates all body functions?

Answer 32

Nervous

Question 33

What is the primary function of the excretory system?

Answer 33

Purifying the body by elimination of waste matter

Question 34

How much blood does the human body contain?

Answer 34

Eight to ten pints

Question 35

What is the one reason estheticians should study body systems, organs and tissues?

Answer 35

To understand the effect that services have on the body

Question 36

What doe the kidneys do?

Answer 36

Excrete water and waste products

Question 37

What is the connection between two or more bones of the skeleton?

Answer 37

Joint

Question 38

Which body system regulates temperature and produces vitamin D?

Answer 38

Integumentary

Question 39

Which body system protects the body from disease by developing resistances and destroying disease-causing toxins?

Answer 39

Immune/lymphatic

Question 40

What is the body system that controls and coordinates all other body systems?

Answer 40

Nervous

Question 41

Which part of the muscle flexes but remains stationary

Answer 41

Origin

Question 42

Which of these muscles are used in chewing?

Answer 42

Masseter and temporalis

Question 43

What is the study of the structure and composition of tissue?

Answer 43

Histiology

Question 44

This movement is used to rotate the muscles.

Answer 44

Supination

Question 45

What body system affects the growth, development, sexual activities, and health of the body?

Answer 45

Endocrine

Question 46

This muscle pulls down the corners of the mouth.

Answer 46

Triangularis

Question 47

When you bend forward you are using which muscle movement?

Answer 47

Triangularis

Question 48

Which muscles causes wrinkles on the forehead?

Answer 48

Frontalis

Question 49

What is true of the origin part of a muscle?

Answer 49

It is attached to the skeleton

Question 50

What organ circulates the blood?

Answer 50

Heart

Question 51

What are the structures composed of specialized tissues and performing specific functions?

Answer 51

Organs

Question 52

Which muscle draws the scalp backward?

Answer 52

Occipitalis

Question 53

What carries messages to and from the brain and controls and coordinates all body function?

Answer 53

Nerve tissue

Question 54

This muscle closes the eyes.

Answer 54

Orbicularis oculi

Question 55

What is the primary function of the reproductive system?

Answer 55

Perpetuating the human race

Question 56

What is the fluid part of the blood that carries food and secretions to the cells and carbon dioxide from the cells?

Answer 56

Plasma

Question 57

What are glands?

Answer 57

Specialized organs that remove and convert elements from the blood

Question 58

Which type of muscle will estheticians work with?

Answer 58

Skeletal

Question 59

What is defecation?

Answer 59

Eliminating waste from the body

Question 60

When you turn your head you are using the_____?

Answer 60

Sternocleidomastoid

Question 61

What is protoplasm?

Answer 61

Substance of which cells of all living things are composed of

Question 62

What is not true about the brain?

Answer 62

Largest organ of the body

Question 63

What organ in the endocrine system secretes enzyme - producing cells that are responsible for digesting carbohydrates, proteins, and fats?

Answer 63

Pancreas

Question 64

If you want to pucker up, you need to use the ___muscle.

Answer 64

Orbicularis oris

Question 65

What is the process of cell reproduction called?

Answer 65

Mitosis