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| Which layer of pericardium is deeper? Parietal or Visceral? |
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The left and right atrium are seperated by what?
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| Trabeculae carnae muscles and papillary muscles are both located in what? |
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| The left and right ventricles |
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| The endocarium is composed of what type of tissue/cell? |
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| Simple squamous epithelium |
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| What pericardium is most superficial and attaches to the base of heart, but not apex |
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The left and right ventricles are seperated by what?
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| Pectinate muscles belong to what part of the heart? |
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| What tunic is made of simple squamous epithelium? |
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| What tunic is made of smooth and collagen fibers? |
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| What tunica is made of loose connective tissue and anchors vessel in place? This tunica is also the most superficial (closest to muscle) |
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| What resistance vessel is mostly smooth muscle and usually has individual names? |
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| distributing or muscular arteries |
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| What exhange vessel serves as an alternate route? |
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| what type of capillary has no pores, found in the stomach, and has lots of desmosomes? |
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| what type of capillary is most common, and allows small molecules through? |
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| What type of capillary allows most thing through? An example of this would be in the hypothalamus and liver and kidney? |
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| What tunica is continuous with the endocardium? |
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| Carotid sinuses are innervated by what nerve? And adjust heartrate and blood pressure |
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| glossopharyngeal NIX nerve |
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| What arterial sense organ monitors carbon dioxide, oxygen and pH levels of blood, and sends signals via NX & NIX. |
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| What chemoreceptor adjusts respiration and kidney function |
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| This arterial sense organ serves the same function as carotid bodies, but is located in the aortic arch? |
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| Where are capillaries located? |
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| In every tissue EXCEPT tendons, and ligaments, cartilage, superfical epithelia and the cornea and lens of the eye |
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| What tunica comprises our exchange vessels? |
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| Muscular veins have how many layers of tunica media? |
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| 1 or 2 layers, usually have individual names as well |
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| In large veins, what type of tunica exists? |
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| tunica externa, mostly aerolar, and reticular tissue |
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| What is defined when a capillary is skipped, so it goes straight from artery to vein/ |
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| Pseudostratified columnar and mucous escalator are located in what? |
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| the pituitary gland is also called; |
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| The most anterior portion of the pituitary is called the: |
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| The posterior of the pituitary is called: |
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| How are the adenohypophysis and hypothalamus connected? |
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| Hypophyseal portal system |
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| The route in which blood flows through two capillary beds before returning to the heart is termed: |
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| The hypophyseal portal system |
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| Endocrine glands have a high density of what type of capillary? |
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| The hypothalamus produces how many hormones? |
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4 are releasing+2 are inhibiting=6
Gonadotropin -releasing
Thyrotropin -releasing
Coricotropin -releasing
Prolactin -inhibiting
Growth homeone -releasing
Somatostatin
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| What is a releasing hormone? |
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| stimulates the anterior pituitary to secrete its hormones |
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| What is a inhibiting hormone? |
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| suppresses pituitary secretion |
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| Thyrotopin - releasing hormone releases what? |
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| Thyrotopin - releasing hormone releases what where? |
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| Thyrotropin in the anterior pituitary |
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| What are the two hypothalamic hormones? |
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Oxytocin (OT), Antidiuretic hormone (ADH)
(synthesized in the brain, stored in the posterior pituitary)
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| What consists of the Adenohypophysis? |
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Pars tuberalis
anterior lobe |
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| What consists of the neurohypophysis? |
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Median eminence
Hypothalamio-hypophyseal tract
Stalk (infindibulum)
posterior lobe |
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| The pars distalis in the hypophysis is also called: |
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| What are the three classes of cells in teh adenohypophysis? |
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| acidophils, basophils (Gram stain dark), chromophobes (Gram stain light) |
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| What two cells secrete the anterior pituitary hormones? |
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| What is a capillary bed? how many |
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| usually 10 to 100. organized groups of capillaries |
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| What part of the neurohypophysis connects it to the hypothalamus? |
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| Growth hormone -inhibiting hormone is also called what? |
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| This hormone targets ovaries and testes. |
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| Follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) |
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| This hormone stimulates the production of testosterone, progestrone? |
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| This hormone stimulates growth of the thyroid gland? |
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| Thyroid stimulating hormone (thyrotropin) |
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| This hormone stimulates the adrenal cortex to secrete the hormone glucocoritcoids? |
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| Adrenocorticotropic hormone (corticotropin) |
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| This hormone stimulates the production of milk, indirectly enhances secretion of testerone |
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| This hormone is to promote mitosis and cellular differentiation promote tissue growth? |
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| Growth hormone (GH)/ Somatotropin) |
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| What are the two posterior pituitary hormones? |
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Antidiuretic hormone (ADH)
Oxytocin (OT) |
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| This gland sythesizes the production of melatonin and seratonin) |
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| pineal gland (epiphysis cerebri) |
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| This is the bilobed gland in the mediastinum superior to the heart, inferior to the trachea, behind the sternal manubrium? |
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| What is the largest endocrine gland in adults? |
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| This organ secretes hormones: thymopoietin, thymosin, and thymulin? |
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| Hypocalcemia, a calcium deficiency, stimulates chief cells of the parathyroids to secrete what? |
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| What adrenal gland is most superficial? |
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| What is the middle layer and largest layer of the Adrenal cortex? |
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| what is the deepest layer of the adrenal cortex? |
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| What layer of adrenal cortex secretes androgens and small amounts of estrogens? |
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| The pancreas islets secrete what important metabolism hormones? |
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| What pancreatic islet cell secretes glucagon, a metabolism boosting hormone? |
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| What pancreatic islet cell secretes insulin. A hormone that stimulates body tissues to absorb nutrients. |
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| What pancreatic islet cell secretes somatostatin, a hormone that regulates the speed of digestion and nutrient absorption? |
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| What pancreatic islet cell secretes Gastrin, a hormone that stimulates acid secretion, and emptying of the stomach? |
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