Ones I Dont Know Flashcards

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What is plexus

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Crossing over

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What are the 5 main nerve that emerge from the brachial plexus

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Musculocutaneous
Axillary
Radial
Ulnar
Median
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What are nerve cells stimulate by

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Energy, heat, light , pressure

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List 7 somatic sensations

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Touch
Heat
Pain
Pressure
Cold
Proprioception
Vibration
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In the parasympathetic NS up which cranial nerves do the physiological and stretch sensations go?

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C 9 (Ix) and 10 (x) (vagus and glossopharyngeal)

S2,3,4 (pelvic splanchnic nerve)

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What is the point of digestion

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To break down food molecules
So they can get pass the gut wall to the blood and All cells of the body
To provide energy by breaking up the bonds
For raw material to be used

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3 main components of connective Tissue matrix

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Cells
Fibre
Ground substances

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3 main types of fibres found in connective Tissue

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Collagen
Elastic
Reticular

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What is pleurisy

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Inflammation of the pleura

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What is eupnea

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Normal shallow breathing

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What is pneumothorax and what causes it

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Collapsed lung-inner layer of lung pulled away from the outer layer due to puncture, which loses its surface tension

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What is essential hypertension

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High blood pressure not dependent on another condition

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Cellular respiration, what is it

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Burning of food molecules by oxygen to produce ATP and release Carbon dioxide

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List 5 symptoms of hyperthyroidism

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Weight loss
Fatigue 
Increased heart rate
Heat sensative
Xs sweating
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Diff btw Type 1 and type 2 diabetes

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Type 1 - reduces or absent insulin

Type 2 - insulin resistance due to lifestyle

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What is the main mineralocorticoid hormone secretes by the adrenal cortex and what are the 3 main things it helps regulate

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Aldosterone
Blood pressure
Blood volume
Acidity

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Where is the pineal gland, what does it release and what effect does it have

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Roof of 3rd ventricle
Melatonin
Regulates sleepiness

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Where do the glucocorticoid hormones come from abs what is their overall effect

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Adrenal cortex
Mobilising energy
Responding to stress

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How do secretions of the hypothalamus get to the anterior pituitary

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Hypophyseal portal system

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How do secretions of the hypothalamus get to the posterior pituitary

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Neurones that start in the hypothalamus reach down into the posterior pituitary and release neurotransmitter which are stored there

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Calcitonin is released from which cells and where are they located

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Para follicular, thyroid

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What are the breakdown of the peripheral NS

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PNS - somatic NS and autonomic NS

Then under autonomic NS is sympathetic and parasympathetic NS

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Give 2 reasons why muscle become shorter and stiffer if we don’t stretch

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More in elastic fibres laid down in connective Tissue in muscle

Cross bridge form btw actin and myosin

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Two proteins in muscle

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Myosin and actin

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What causes the sarcoplasmic reticulum in a muscle cell to open, releasing calcium ions which make the filaments slide and the muscle contract
Nerve impulse
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What muscle helps the agonist work more efficiently by reducing unnecessary movement called?
Synergists
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What is fibrillation
Spontaneous, irregular contraction of a single muscle fibre under skin only visible with emg
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What is myasthenia gravies and what causes its
Weak muscle caused by auto antibodies receptor site on muscles
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Which 4 hormones are released from the Graafian follicle (later corpus luteum)
Progesterone Oestrogen Relaxin Inhibin
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What is the production of sperm called
Spermatogenesis
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What’s the really diff thing that happens in spermatogenesis
Chromosomes reduce from 46 to 23 singles
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What are the 4 main types of cells in bone marrow
RBCs,wbcs, adipocytes and fibroblasts
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What is the functional unit of the kidneys
Nephron
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Which 2 hormones does the kidneys release
Erythropoietin and calcitonin
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What is rheumatoid arthritis
WBC’s attacking own cells - autoimmune inflammation
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Connective Tissue with In The muscle comes out to form the tendon
Tendon joins muscle to bone | Ligaments join bone to bone
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Everything that happens in the body happens due to
Shape and change of atoms and molecules
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What are protein made from
Atoms
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7 LV of organisation of the body
Atom, molecules, cells, tissue, organs, system, whole person
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What is the matrix in bone - material
25% protein and water 50% crystallised mineral salts
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List 6 characteristics of living things
Mr M Grd ``` Metabolism Reproduction Movement Growth Responsiveness Differentiation ```
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What are the two functional parts of the somatic nervous system (job they do)
Sensory and motor
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What is an ion
A charged atom that has gained or lost electrons
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What are the 4 types of tissue
Connective Muscle Nerve Epithelial
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What does connective Tissue do
Protects Connects and Binds
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Which digestive enzyme if made from haemoglobin
Bile
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What is the endocrine system made up of
Clusters of epithelial cells that secrete hormones
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Wha is the endocrine system for and how does it do what it does
To maintain homeostasis - messenger molecules make cells do things that keep conditions in the body constant when things around them are changing
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Which 2 major systems does the hypothalamus control
NS and endocrine
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Where does the hardness come from in bones and where does the strength and flexibility come from
Mineral salts and protein fibres
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What is Potts fracture
Fibula fractured at far end
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Which hormone causes osteoclast activity to increase resulting in less calcium in bone and more in blood
Parathyroid
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Wha Is rickets
Failure of the bone to calcify
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What is the name for the mechanism by which muscle move
Sliding filament
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Wha is the name of the place where a nerve cell aches to a muscle cell
Neuromuscular junction
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Where does the energy in the ATP that lowers the muscle come from
Energy bonds in food being broken down
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What are the two types of muscle contractions
Isotonic and isometric
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Which type of muscle contraction does not involve a change of length
Isometric
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Why are there no stripes in smooth muscle
Because the actin and myosin are not arranged in parallel rows as they are in striped muscle
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What’s the big thing about cardiac muscle
Auto rhythmic
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Which end of a muscle is the origin
End attached to the Stationary bone
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What does connective Tissue do
Protects - binds and connect
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What do epithelial tissue do
Secrete, absorbs and lines
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State 4 functions of the liver
``` Make urea Make bile and other enzymes Alkaline the small intestine Detoxify the blood Make blood clotting enzymes ```
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What is cellular respiration and where does it happen
Food molecules being broken down by o2 to release ATP and releases co2
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What are the 4 types of tissue
Connective Tissue Fibre Elastic Reticular
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What is the endocrine system made up of
Cluster of epithelial cells that secrete hormones
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What is the endocrine system for and how does it do what it does
Maintain homeostasis | Messenger molecules make cells do things that keep conditions in the body constant when things around them are changing
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Which two major systems does the hypothalamus control
Endocrine and NS
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Where does the hardness come from in bones and where does the strength and flexibility come from
Mineral salts and protein fibres
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What is a Potts fracture
Fibula fracture at far end
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What is colles fracture
Fracture of far end of radius’s
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Which hormone causes osteoclast activity to increase resulting in less calcium in bone and more in blood
Parathyroid
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What causes rickets
Failure of the bone to calcify
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What causes gout
Sodium urate crystals
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What is the name for the mechanism by which muscles move
Sliding filament
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What is the name of the place where a nerve cell attaches to a muscle cell
Neuromuscular junction
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What gives muscle their tone
Firing of muscle fibres
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Where does the energy in the atp that power the muscle come from
Energy bonds in food being broken down
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Where would you find alpha cells and what do they secrete and what is the effect
Pancreas Secret glucagon Increase blood glucose
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What is sperm production called
Spermatogenesis
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What is oogenesis
Cell in overview develops into an egg
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What do the kidneys do
Filter the blood to form urine which is secretes from the body
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What is the stimulus that causes human growth hormone to be released from the anterior pituitary gland
Low blood sugar
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Which two hormones does the thyroid gland release
T3 | T4
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What are the 4 main things the female sex hormone do
``` Maintain pregnancy Regulate menstration Maintains the female body shape Breast Development and milk production ```
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Where would you find beta cells and what do they do
Pancreas | Secret insulin which reduces blood glucose
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Which artery and vein supply the kidneys
Renal
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Where does the uric acid in urea come from
DNA and rna breakdown
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What is a tremor
Rhythmic involvement , purposeless contraction causing shaking
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What are the 2 ways by which hormones can change what a cell is doing
Fat soluble hormones switch on the gene in the dna | Water soluble hormones binds the receptor and acts as an enzyme that makes the cell do its job
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What are mammary glands
Modified sweat glands that produce milk
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What is the condition called in which bone resorption is greater then deposition
Osteoporosis
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Which two hormones together stimulate sperm production in the testes
Testosterone and FSH
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What are the 2 things that all cells have to do
Keep on living and making protein enzymes to make things happen
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What is a living thing meaning
A living thing is what a living thing does
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What are the 2 functional (jobs they do) parts of the somatic nervous system
Sensory and motor