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A & P Second Semester Study Cards
Comprehensive quiz covering the muscular, nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, and lymphatic/immune system
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Anatomy
12th Grade
05/03/2021

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Voluntary muscles
Definition
Muscles attached to the skeleton that allows free will or by choice movement of body parts.
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Involuntary Muscles
Definition
Types of muscles that is not under someone's conscious control.
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ATP 
Definition
The usable form of energy for a cell.
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Stimulation by a motor neuron
Definition
Condition that causes skeletal muscle cells to contract.
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Steroids
Definition
Chemicals in the body that decrease inflammation but are not involved in muscle contraction.
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Thick filaments
Definition
 Structures found in muscle cells of the protein myosin.
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Nerve cell   
Definition
A motor neuron
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Sarcomere  
Definition
 Contractile structure of the muscle fiber.
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Olfactory
Definition
Cranial nerve that carries impulses for smelling.
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Glossopharyngeal  
Definition
Cranial nerve used to innervate the pharynx, control swallowing; and taste in the posterior  ⅓  of the tongue?
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Abducens
Definition
Cranial nerve that causes the movement of eyes to roll laterally.
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Vagus nerve

Definition
Cranial nerve that innervates all the visceral organs; controls functions like digestion and breathing.
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Vestibulocochlear  

Definition
Cranial nerve that is responsible for balance and hearing.
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Cell body, dendrite, axon
Definition
The (3) parts of a neuron
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Myelin sheath
Definition
Serves as protection for some axons.
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Electrical impulse
Definition
An action potential of nerves.
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Glands
Definition
Chemical messengers at work in the body.
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Pituitary  glands
Definition

Considered to be the master gland of the body, because it     

 

                  produces many hormones that activate other glands to produce their own hormones. 

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Hypothalamus
Definition

Hub of where the nervous and endocrine systems meet, and

 

                  monitors the entire body to see what is going on in it.

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Target cells
Definition
Specific cells in which only reactions are triggered by hormones.
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Homeostasis
Definition

 Process in the body that regulate

 

                 and control hormones to impact reproduction, metabolism, energy balance, growth, development, and body defenses.

 

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Insulin and Glucagon
Definition

Secreting hormones that help the pancreas to regulates blood sugar.

 

               

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Amino acids
Definition

Organic compound that form and maintain proteins in the body and make up hormones along with lipids which serve to provide sources of energy .

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Blood & nervous
Definition

System passage ways that the endocrine system uses hormones to travel either slowly or quickly through neurons by electrical impulses.

 

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Your Fist
Definition
The average size of the heart.
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Pericardium
Definition
Membrane that protects the heart.
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Myocardium
Definition
Layer that contracts the heart wall.
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Tricuspid  
Definition
 heart valve that controls blood flow between the right atrium and ventricle.
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Mitral
Definition
Heart valve that controls blood flow between the left atrium and ventricle.
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Oxygenated
Definition
Type of blood found on the left side of the heart.
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Lungs
Definition
Air filled organs that allows blood to release CO2 and pick up O2.
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Vena cavae and aorta
Definition
The largest blood vessels involved in systemic circulation.
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Edema   
Definition
A condition of swelling caused by excess fluid trapped in your body's tissues that is by maintaining fluid balance the lymphatic system prevents
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Fats & Immune cells
Definition

The lymphatic system helps the digestive system and immune system by absorbing and storing  specific structures.

 

Term
Circulatory system
Definition
Runs parallel to the lymphatic system.
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Valves
Definition
Used to control the flow of lymph through lymph vessels.
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Lymph nodes
Definition
Filters the lymph and produce lymphocytes and B and T cells.
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Deep vessels
Definition
Structure of the lymph nodes that drain the organs.
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Epidemiologist
Definition
Scientific personnel in charge of determining the cause and origin of an outbreak.
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Muscular, Nervous, Endocrine, Cardiovascular, Lymphatic
Definition

Systems of the body that support; movement

control of behavior and body systems, detect external stimuli, controls systems development, transport of materials through the body, regulate temperature, and provides defense against infections.

 

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