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What is another name for the mouth?

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Buccal cavity

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What is another name for chewing?

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Mastication

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What is another name for the breakdown of food by enzymes?

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Chemical digestion

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What is another name for physical process of chewing?

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Mechanical digestion

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What is another name for the small ball-shaped mass of chewed, moistened food?

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Bolus

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What is another name for the muscular squeezing of the digestive tract to push food along the system?

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Peristalsis

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What is the thick liquid substance food becomes in the stomach?

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Chyme

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Where is the final set of chemical digestive enzymes found?

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Pancreas

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What is another name for large intestine?

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Colin

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Where are nutrients absorbed?

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Small intestine

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Where is water absorbed?

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Large intestine

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12
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What does the endocrine system do?

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Regulation of the body

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What does the endocrine system use to regulate the body?

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Hormones

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What is another word for stable body referring to the endocrine system?

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Homeostasis

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What are the ovaries and testes called in relation to the endocrine system?

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Gonads

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What do endocrine glands do?

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Release hormones both locally and systematically

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17
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What is the locally released hormone called?

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Paracrine secretion

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18
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What does the gall bladder and liver do?

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Digests fats

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19
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What does the pancreas do?

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Secretes glucose

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What are the organs of the digestive system? 9

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  1. Mouth
  2. Esophagus
  3. Stomach
  4. Liver
  5. Pancreas
  6. Small intestine
  7. Large intestine
  8. Anus
  9. Rectum
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21
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What is another name for pituitary gland?

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Master gland

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22
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What is another name for hypothalamic gland?

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Control center

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23
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What is the thyroid gland for?

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Metabolism T3 and T4

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What does the parathyroid do?

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Regulates calcium

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What are the two parts of the adrenal gland and what do they do?
Cortex - cortisol | Medulla - epi - fight or flight - adrenalin
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What does the digestive system do?
Break down food into usable form of energy for the body
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What does the immune system do?
Protects body from diseases
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What is the antigen presentation?
Distinguishes you from everyone else
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What do the lymphocytes do to the antigens?
Recognizes them as self or non-self
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What is it called when one cell attacks another?
Apoptosis
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What is special about viruses? 3
1. Do not have reproductive capability 2. Always intracellular 3. Do not react to antibiotics
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What is different about bacteria?
1. Can be totally extra cellular 2. B type lymphocytes form antibodies 3. Process coats the pathogen with antibodies
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What are microbes?
Very small organisms
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What is a pathogen?
Microbes that pose a potential risk
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What is unique about humoral immune system ?
What you are born with
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What is adaptive immune system?
Producing your own antibodies. Once you have them, they are stored
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What does the adaptive immune system help with?
Protects us from serious disease after receiving an immunization
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What does the integumentary system for? 3
1. Protection 2. Thermoregulation 3. Activation of vitamin D by the sun
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What are the 3 most common parts of the integumentary system?
Skin, hair, nails
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What is the relationship between respiratory system and the cardiovascular system?
Respiratory system brings oxygen into the body; cardiovascular system spreads it throughout the body
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How many bones are in the body?
206
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What is the production of blood cells in marrow called?
Hemopoeisis
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What bones are responsible for Hemopoeisis ?
Long bones
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The nervous system is made up of what two divisions?
Central nervous system and peripheral nervous system
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What organs make up the urinary system?
1. Kidneys 2. Urinary bladder 3. Urethra
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What is the top layer of skin called?
Epidermis
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What is the second layer of skin called?
Dermis
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What do the capillaries in the skin do?
Exchange
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What does the dermis sit on?
Subcutaneous tissue
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What is the lubricating oil in the skin called?
Sebum
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What is the function of the musculoskeletal system? 3
1. Provides framework to body 2. Allows muscles to move 3. Protects organs
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What do ligaments do?
Connect bone to other bone
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What do joints do
Provides protection of bones that are together
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What do tendons do?
Connect bone to muscle
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What are the 4 long bones?
1. Fibia 2. Tibia 3. Femur 4. Humerus
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What are the short bones?
Hands and feet
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What are the flat bones?
Skull and ribs (protection)
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What are the irregular bones?
Vertebral column
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What are voluntary muscles called?
Striated muscle
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What are the involuntary muscles called?
Visceral
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What does the visceral muscles do?
Lines the circumference of muscular arteries.
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What does the nervous system do?
Allows us to make voluntary and involuntary actions
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What two things does the central nervous system control?
Brain and spinal cord
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What does the peripheral nervous system consist of ?
Nerves that branch out from spinal cord -- peripheral neurology
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What is the several layers of dense connective tissue around the spinal cord called?
Meninges
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What is the thin plasma like fluid around the meninges and nervous tissue called?
Cerebral spinal fluid
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What are the secondary gonads?
Testicles and ovaries
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What is the function of the respiratory system?
Changes pressure in the thoracic cavity and moves air in and out of the lungs. Provides oxygen to cells and blood
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What is the distant parts of the lung air spaces called?
Alveoli
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What is the waste product of the cellular metabolism of glucose called?
Carbon dioxide
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What does negative pressure in the lungs do?
Wants you to breathe back in.
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What does the urinary system do?
Responsible for filtering and eliminating liquid waste from the body
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What is one of the main functions of the kidney?
Pull out nitrogenous waste product out of the blood supply and excrete it
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What does BUN stand for?
Blood urea nitrogen -- test for kidneys
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What happens if you a lot of urea in the system?
Less kidney function.

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