Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM


Top Flashcards (Certified)
All Flashcards

A&P Final > Whole Thing > Flashcards

Whole Thing Flashcards

(104 cards)

Start Studying
1
Q

Addison’s disease

A

A disorder in which the adrenal glands don’t produce enough hormones.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Light and vision

A

Light hits the retina, goes through a path to end in an optic nerve

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Characteristics of elastic cartillage

A

Like hyaline cartillage, but contains yellow elastic fibers like in the ear

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Hyaline cartillage

A

Pearly, on the ends of joints, made up of chondrocytes

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Neurons

A

Carries nerve impulses, axon sends, recieves via the dendrite

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Plasma membrane

A

Made up of a lipid bilayer, only hydrophobic molcules get pushed through

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Chemicals in the human body

A

Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Afferent nerves

A

Sends signals to cns

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Efferent nerves

A

Sends impulses to muscles from the CNS

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Endomysium

A

Connective tissue within the muscle

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Ganglia

A

Grouping of nerves muclei within the CNS

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

HAVERSIAN CANALS

A

Narrow tubes moving nutrients around the lamellae of the bone

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Lacuna

A

A cavity within the long shaft of a bone

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Mixed nerves

A

Nerves sending impulses both ways for multiple purposes

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Monnosaccharide

A

Sugars

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Motor nerves

A

Nerves innervsting muscles making them move

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

Myofibril

A

Elongated strands that are moving ahainst one another to cause muscle contraction

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Myofilaments

A

Myofilaments are the filaments of myofibrils constructed from proteins. Their arrangement make up the three kinds of muscles

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Nerve tract

A

A bundke if myelinated fibers following a path through the brain nerve tract

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Nerves

A

Bundles of nerve fibres running in primary tracts from the spinal cord outward

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

Nuclei

A

Where the dna is stored in a cell

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

Nucleic acid

A

The buidling blocks of DNA, ADANINE, GUANINE, TAURINE, CYTOSINE

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

Perimysium

A

Layer above the muscles, lunricates and protects against infection

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

Peroxisomes

A

Small organelle, present in the cytoplasm that contains catalase and oxidase

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Polysaccharide
Bigger sugar chains
26
Proteins
Amino acids coming together
27
Sarcolema
Transparent sheath that envelops the fibers of the skeletal muscles
28
Sarcomere
A structural unir if a myofibril in striated muscles, consisting of a dark band and pale band
29
Sarcoplasmic reticulum
The specialized ER of cardiac muscles and skeletal striated muscles amd stores calcium
30
Epimysium
Thin transparent membrane covering a skeletal muscle
31
Trabecula
Groups of connective tissue forming bones
32
VOLKMANN'S CANAL
Blood vessel carrying holes in a bone
33
Gap junction
Inntracellular junctions between a multitude of animal cells
34
Gouty arthritis
Arthritis from eating fatty foods, uric acid crystals in the joint
35
Homeostatic imbalance
Illness
36
Motionsickness
Cochlea and inner ear fluid is messed up in the worst kinda way
37
Osmosis
Transfering if water across a permeable bilayer
38
Phagocytosis
Cells eating other cells
39
Spastic paralysis
Nerve severed, but there are still slight impulses working their way across the muscle
40
Survival needs
Food and water and shelter and oxygen and warmth
41
Proper nerve impulses
Proper ions and electrical impulses
42
Colloid solution
Anything with visible particulate
43
Decomposition reactions
Chlorates break down into salts
44
Exhange reactions
Copper and silver nitrate
45
Positive feedback
Oxytocin and childbirth
46
Causes of conduction deafness
Damage to the middle ear, sound does not conduct to the tymapnic membrane porperly
47
Suspensions
Dissolved so you can see the particulates
48
Columnar epithelia
Secrete digestive enzyme
49
Cuboidal epitheleum
Protection
50
Squamous epitheleum
Uneven epithelium, digestion
51
Aqueous humor
Behind cornea in front of lens
52
Ceruminous glands
Earwax
53
Cochlea
Inner ear snail organ
54
Compact bone
Bone that is mineralized
55
Cornea
Avasscular tissue that refracts light
56
Iris
Control light input
57
Lens
Light refraction
58
Limbic system
Emotions
59
Microtubules
Within the cells highway of transport
60
Oligodendrocytes
Nervous helper cells
61
Reticular fibers
Help in muscle cells
62
Reticular formation
Moves things amongst cells
63
Rods
Black and white darkness vision
64
Traebuclar bone
Semicartilagnious bone
65
Tympanic membrane
Vibrates sound for pickup in the inner ear
66
Vestibule
An antechamber of the ear
67
Ans
All the stuff we dont think about
68
Apocrine glands
Specialized sweat gland
69
Articular cartillage
Bone on bone cartillage action
70
Astrocytes
Cells carrying blood to nuerons
71
Bursae
Padding between bones
72
Chondrocyte
Cartillage cells
73
Collagen fibres
Make up hair and nails
74
Eccrine
Normal sweat
75
Apocrine
Stank glands
76
Elastic fibres
Make things streatchy
77
Ependymal
Lining of the spinal cord
78
Irregular bones
Spines
79
Ligaments
Muscle to bone
80
Limbic association
Memory
81
Mammary glands
Produce breast milk
82
Menisci
Tiny tendons
83
Mitochondria
Powerhouse of the cell
84
Microglia
Small cells that assist nerves in doing stuff
85
Muscle fibers
Movein dem bines doe
86
Osteoblasts
Build up the bone
87
Osteoclasts
Break down the bone
88
Osteocytes
Bone cells
89
Posterior asociation area
Written language
90
Prefrontal cortex
Knowledge storage
91
Primary somatosensory cortex
Sensing body movements
92
T tubules
Sliding filaments and nonesense with muscles
93
Tendons
Muscle to bone
94
Lens
Refractory piece of material between the cornea and vitreous humor, refracts light again so that the photons hit the right way
95
Carbohydrate storage
Sugar molecules are processed by enzymes in the pancrease, leftover energy converted to fatty tissues
96
Cranial bone formation
Cartillage
97
How do we smell
Olfactory receptors pick up molecules in the air
98
Optic disk
Blindspot where the optic nerve leaves the eye
99
Taste buds
Fungiform, fibreform, fungiform taste
100
Location of the white matter
Outside the spine, inside the brain
101
Major ion inside cell
Potasium
102
Ion outside
Potassium
103
Thalamus
Interoreta body movement and some limbic function
104
Salts
Ionically bonded compounds

A&P Final (1 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2025 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions