C.L NOTES 101-120 Flashcards
101.The fluid circulating through the heart, arteries, veins, and capillaries.
What is blood?
101.Carries oxygen and nutrients to the cells.
What does blood carry?
- A severe form of food poisoning.
What is botulism?
- Caused by a kind of bacterium that produces a toxin.
What causes botulism?
- The central organ in the nervous system
What is the brain?
- Consists of the medulla, the pons, the cerebellum, and the cerebrum.
What does the brain consist of?
- Contains two hemispheres, the left brain and the right brain.
What is the cerebrum?
- Controls everything on the left side of a body.
What does the right brain control?
- A highly contagious disease usually fatal affecting the lymphatic system.
What is bubonic plaque?
- Caused by bacteria transmitted to humans by rat bone fleas.
How is bubonic plaque caused?
- A disease characterized by the rapid growth of cells in the body.
What is cancer?
- Often in the form of a tumor.
What form does cancer come through?
- Tiny blood vessels throughout the body that connects arteries and veins.
What are cappiliaries?
- Distributes oxygen and nutrients to the cells and remove waste substances.
What do capillaries distribute?
- A mildly but highly contagious disease caused by a virus and characterized by slight fever and the eruption of blisters on the skin.
What are chicken poxs?
- Classified as a disease of childhood.
What are chicken poxs classified as?
- This saying originated from the west.
Where did the saying “ Hold Your Horses” originate?
- Means to restrain or hold back.
What does “ Hold Your Horses” mean?
- To sleep.
What does hit the sack mean?
- Commonly refers to getting sleep.
What does hit the sack refer to?
- Normally used regarding someone who has committed an error against someone else.
How is the term in the dog house used?
- E. G Thomas was in the dog house after his mother caught him in a lie.
What is a example of bring in the dog house?
- The act of stepping onto thin ice.
What does skating on thin ice mean?
- Used to indicate that the possibility of error is great.
How is skating on thin ice used?