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Test 2
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Anatomy
11th Grade
01/21/2016

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What is adipose tissue?
Definition
fat
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tendinous sheet that attaches a broad, flat muscle to another muscle or several bones of the skeleton
Definition
aponeurosis
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What is a connective tissue suspended in a water matrix called plasma?
Definition
blood
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What are red blood cells called?
Definition
erythrocytes
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What transports oxygen attached to an iron containing molecule called hemoglobin?
Definition
red blood cell
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What is an iron containing molecule?
Definition
hemoglobin
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What are white blood cells called?
Definition
leukocytes
Term
What protects the body against disease and infection?
Definition
white blood cells
Term
cell fragments that function in blood clotting
Definition
platelets
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What carry blood away from the heart?
Definition
arteries
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What carries blood to the heart?
Definition
veins
Term
What are the smallest blood vessels that are one cell thick called (where exchange takes place)?
Definition
capillaries
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What means blood filled (organs, etc with many blood vessels)?
Definition
vascular
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What are the types of cartilage?
Definition
hylane, elastic cartilage, fibrocartilage
Term
What is the most common type of cartilage (between bones, forms most bones of skeletons, etc)
Definition
hylane
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What kind of cartilage makes up the auricle/pinna or outer fleshy part of ear?
Definition
elastic cartilage
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What kind of cartilage absorbs shock in pads between vertebrae?
Definition
fibrocartilage
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What is connective tissue?
Definition
bone
Term
What is also known as osseous tissue?
Definition
connective tissue
Term
What are bone cells?
Definition
osteocytes
Term
skin
Definition
cutaneous membrane
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What secretes synovial fluid (lines joint cavity and allows free movement)?
Definition
synovial membrane
Term
skeletal, smooth and cardiac
Definition
muscle tissue
Term
attached to bone, contains striations (dark bands) and are voluntary
Definition
skeletal muscle tissues
Term
located only in the heart, striated and involuntary
Definition
cardiac muscle tissue
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located in walls of blood vessels, hollow organs, etc (is nonstriated and involuntary)
Definition
smooth muscle tissue
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nerve cells and neuroglia- supporting cells
Definition
neurons
Term
What has many dendrites and one axon?
Definition
nerve cell
Term
receives info from other neurons
Definition
dendrites
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conducts info from dendrites to other cells
Definition
axon
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What is an infection?
Definition
pathogen
Term
tissue destruction that occurs after cells have been hurt or killed and is caused by lysosomal enzymes attacking the injured cells
Definition
necrosis
Term
accumulation of debris, fluid, dead cells and necrotic tissue
Definition
pus
Term
accumulation of pus in an enclosed space
Definition
abscess
Term
What do cancer rates increase with?
Definition
age
Term
What percentage of people in the US will develop cancer at some point in their lives?
Definition
25%
Term
What percentage of cancer occurs from chemical exposure and environmental factors?
Definition
70-80%
Term
What percentage of cancer comes from cigarette smoke?
Definition
40%
Term
In the US, how many people will die from cancer every year?
Definition
500,000
Term
Cancer is second to what leading cause of death?
Definition
heart disease
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