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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Positive feedback system
Presence of thymine in DNA not RNA
Regulatory proteins that ewnable muscle finers to start or stop contracting
Response enhances stimulus
Fluid build up in lower extremily - right side of heart death - fluid build up in lungs - left side of heart death

2. Location of cardiovascular center in the brain
Top part of face (attached to zygomatics)
Vomer & mandible
Medulla
Portal vein

3. Muscular arteries
Suprarenal Glands
Manubrium - body - Xiphoid process
Serve organs - have more smooth muscle for vasodilation/constriction
Measure muscle length

4. Passive natural immunity
Place on molecule where they attach to one another or something else
Ascending - Arch - Descending
Cytoplasm inside each muscle fiber that contains mitochondria & myofibrils
Placenta & nursing

5. Passive artificial immunity
Antibody injection
Sa node - av node - av bundle - bundle branches - conduction myofibers (Perkinje)
Communited fracture
Presence of thymine in DNA not RNA

6. Intestinal mucosa made up of
Capillaries
Simple columnar epithelium
Axis - dens is point of rotation
8

7. Joint kinesthetic receptor
Formed by 2 lamina coming together
8
Vagus 10
Located within and around joints for protection from pressure/ excess acceloration and deceloration

8. Phrenic nerve
Innervates diaphram
22
Most mobile & largest
Appendix

9. Thyroid gland
Raises arteriol pressure & lowers heartrate
Arteries
Cells attack other cells
Produces T3 - T4 - Calcitonin

10. Nerve plexus that runs thru psoas/QL
Lumbar plexus
Veins
Produced by adrenals - form male/female sex characteristics
Binding of myosin to actin - powerstroke - rigor - unbinding - cocking of the myosin heads

11. Abdominal aorta bifurcates into
22
Common illiac arteries
Raises arteriol pressure & lowers heartrate
Air in pleural cavity

12. Abcess
Largest - short stubby transv. processes
Puss filled cavity - must be drained
Vena Cava & pulmonary veins
Superficial vein that starts at the lateral malleolous and dumps into the poplitial vein

13. main blood supply to the arm - commonly used to take BP
Brachial Artery
Held by billroths rods
Frontal - Ethmoid - Maxillary - Sphenoid
Diaphragm

14. Blood hydrostatic pressure
Blood pressure
Growth and repair cell reproduction
Touch receptor in papillae
Produced by adrenals - hold sodium & prevent dehydration

15. Slowsest flow of blood
Capillaries to allow for gas and nutrient exchange
External intercostals
Carbon
Closing of the fontanells of babies

16. Contribut to movement of lymph
Portal vein
Hormone produced by pineal gland
Contraction of muscle & respiratory pump
Line stomach - produce mucus & heparin

17. C2/axis
Has dens which articualtes with atlas
Surgical neck - where metaphasis was
Thin filament (contractile protein)
Connects arteriole/venule to a capillary

18. Where does interstitial fluid come from?
Blood
Uses ATP by membrane
Dead tissue
Each gas exerts a partial pressure contributing to the total pressure of the air

19. Androgens
Produce Epinephrine or adrenaline
Flexes vertebral column
Linea Alba
Produced by adrenals - form male/female sex characteristics

20. Cervical vertebrae

21. Primary Vertebral Curves
Sacral & Thoracic
Uses ATP by membrane
Hormone produced by pineal gland
Moves tropomyosin aside & exposes myosin binding sites when Ca+ is released

22. Bony landmarks of anterior neck
7 cervical vertebrae - Hyoid bone - Thyroid Cartilage - Cricoid Cartilage - Carotid Tubercle
Hepatic vein
Located in the spleen - in the red pulp - remove old RBC's - store platelets - hemopoiesis in fetus
Ability to respond to stimuli

23. Zone of secondary ossification
When you get the disease and create antibodies against it
From placenta/nursing (immunity given by someone else)
Mass of repair tissue that bridges the end of a long bone
Epiphysis

24. Lesser Saphenous vein
Superficial vein that starts at the lateral malleolous and dumps into the poplitial vein
Growth rings on cross section of bone
Crystals in bone
NOT part of the osteon

25. # of bones in skull
In the skin
Occurs in forearm/ at distal radius
22
Located in sphenoid - houses the pituitary

26. 1st major artery off of abdominal aorta is...
Connects pituitary & Hypothalmus
Chyme
Celiac artery
Connects arteriole/venule to a capillary

27. Growth
Depression in sphenoid bone that houses the pituitary
Superior Mesenteric Vein
Line stomach - produce mucus & heparin
Ability to grow

28. Lowest pp CO2
Thoracic vertebrae
Spleen - lymph nodes
Alveoli
Saggital - coronal squamous - lambdoidal

29. Hepatic vein
Nervous and endocrine
Raises arteriol pressure & lowers heartrate
Holes for spinal nerves to exit the vertebral column
Blood from liver to the inferior vena cava

30. Calcitonin
UV light
Lowers blood calcium
Jugular Vein
Innervates viscera - Major parasympathetic nerve in body

31. T-lymphocites use
How T lymphocytes attack
Perforin and lymphotoxin
Connects a capillary and a venule
Basal cell carcinoma

32. Septal cells I(type II)
Located on alveoli - prevent them from sticking together
Released energy
Kidneys and pancreas
L & R common iliacs

33. Meiosis
Abdominal aorta
Calcium
Common Illiac Arteries
Reproductive cell division

34. Activation energy
Muscle cells named for their elongated shape and multinucleated
Function of skin
Great Saphenous Vein
Amount of energy required to stick 2 molecules together

35. Arachnoid
Skeletal muscles
Spidery middle layer of the meninges
Flexes vertebral column
Take blood back to heart

36. Part of the venous circulation of the leg - used in bypass surgury
Released energy
On palms and soles of feet
Blood hydrostatic pressure - blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Great Saphenous Vein

37. Crossbridge cycle
Binding of myosin to actin - powerstroke - rigor - unbinding - cocking of the myosin heads
Blood hydrostatic pressure - blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Has dens which articualtes with atlas
Osteon activity by way of calcium regulation

38. Septal cells (type II)
Manubrium - body - Xiphoid process
Hormone produced by pineal gland
Make surfactant in alveolus
Cell membrane

39. Cranial bones
Atrial depolarization
Air in pleural cavity
Back of hard palat of mouth
Frontal - parietal - temporal occipital - ethmoid - sphenoid

40. Blood hydrostatic pressure
Inward movement of water fromblood stream into interstitial fluid / highest at arteriol end of capillary (filtration)
Rectus sheath
Secum - ascending colon - hepatic flexor - transverse colon - splenic flexor - descending colon - sigmoid colon - rectum
Skin - Connective Tissue - Aponeurosis - Loose connective tissue - Pericranuim

41. Organ that produces bile
Liver
Hepatic vein
Surrounds each myofibril & stores & releases Ca+ when muscle cell is stimulated to contract
Occipital bone

42. Simple diffusion
Diffusion
Intracellular fluid
Passive process molecule moves down the concentration gradient (from highest to lowest concentration)
Blood diverted to the liver from the digestive tract

43. Diencephalon
Top part of face (attached to zygomatics)
Take blood back to heart
Thalmus - hypothalmus & pituitary
Medial part of inside of eye

44. Pyloric sphincter
Valve between stomach & duodenum
Red & white pulp
Intracellular fluid
Response is opposite of stimulus

45. Drains blood from the head
Motor pathway
Carotid arteries
Anti-inflamitory produced by Adrenal Glands
Jugular Vein

46. lowest pp O2 in...
Chyme
Superficial vein on the ulnar side of the arm dump into the brachial vein
Tissues
Capillaries to allow for gas and nutrient exchange

47. Celiac ganglion
Between dura mater and arachnoid layers - houses interstitial fluid
Innervates viscera - Major parasympathetic nerve in body
Lymphatic nodules at junction of oral cavity & pharynx
Solar plexus

48. Sympathetic chain
Largest - short stubby transv. processes
Paravertebral ganglions
Celiac artery
Attraction of water to blood

49. Vitamin D synthesis needs
Uses ATP by membrane
Measure muscle length
Surrounds each myofibril & stores & releases Ca+ when muscle cell is stimulated to contract
UV light

50. Aorta
Ascending - Arch - Descending
Take blood back to heart
Mandible
Celiac artery