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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Differentiation
Heaviest bone
Ability to specialize cells
Hormone produced by pineal gland
Superficial vein on the radial side of the arm dump into the axillary vein

2. Brocha's area
Thick filament (contractile protein)
Outside of long bones
Associated with speech
Renals and Hepatic veins

3. Drains blood from the head
Back of leg
Jugular Vein
Branched off of Brachiocephalic - splits into internal & external
Attacks pathogens dissolved in body fluids

4. Beyond the diaphragm aorta is called...
Left and right coronary arteries
Produce Epinephrine or adrenaline
Lymph nodes - lungs - spleen
Abdominal aorta

5. lowest pp O2 in...
Myosin heads/bridge gaps btw thin/thick filaments
Death of tissue caused by blood blockage
Cells attack other cells
Tissues

6. Abdominals attached to Ilium
Make surfactant in alveolus
Muscles contract because the thin/thick filaments slide past eachother
Valve between ilium & cecum of lg intestines
Transverse - internal & externals

7. 80% of all skin cancers
Between dura mater and arachnoid layers - houses interstitial fluid
Basal cell carcinoma
Renal Artery
Atlas - no body - no pedicle - no lamina - no SP

8. Supplies blood to the kidneys
From placenta/nursing (immunity given by someone else)
Branched off of Brachiocephalic - splits into internal & external
Serve organs - have more smooth muscle for vasodilation/constriction
Renal Artery

9. Hemothorax
Arteries
Pulmonary veins
Blood in pleural cavity
Antibody injection

10. Adrenal glands
Suprarenal Glands
Hormone of the skin
Crystals in bone
Diaphysis

11. Actin
Blood pressure
Thin filament (contractile protein)
L & R common iliacs
Abdominal aorta

12. Pineal Gland
Right subclavian vein
Deep pressure sensors
Controls sleep cycle
Irritation of the plural cavity by build up of extra fluid

13. Secondary lymph organs
Perforin and lymphotoxin
Molecule aided by a carrier molecule (PASSIVE)
Collagen
Spleen - lymph nodes

14. Passive artificial immunity
Antibody injection
Spleen
Diaphragm
Paravertebral ganglions

15. Pain in L/R Quadrant
Most commom blood transfusion
Deep pressure sensors
Appendix
Produces T3 - T4 - Calcitonin

16. Active site
Anchors nuchal ligament
Peritoneum
Place on molecule where they attach to one another or something else
Arangement of compact bone

17. Veins that form the inferior vena cava
Transverse - internal & externals
Tissues
Basal cell carcinoma
L & R common iliacs

18. Where vitamin D synthisis begins
In the skin
Valve between ilium & cecum of lg intestines
Dead tissue
Mass of neural tissue that develops into dorsal root ganglia

19. Cell mediated immunity
Measure muscle length
Cells attack other cells
Duodenum - jejunum - ilium
Cell membrane for each muscle fiber

20. Supplies blood to brain
Thoracic vertebrae
Carotid arteries
Located in Sphenoid
Antibody injection

21. Pneumothorax
Spleen - lymph nodes
Air in pleural cavity
Cells attack other cells
Swelling of lymphatic tissue @ L2 that brings lymph to Thoracic duct (left lymphatic duct)

22. Starling's law of the capillaries
@ arteriol end of capillary blood colloidal osmotic pressure is higher than blood hydrostatic pressure - vice versa at the venus end
Back of leg
Produced by thyroid gland maintains calcium homeostasis by lowering levels in blood
Reproductive cell division

23. Posterior tibila artery gives rise to
Cardiac muscle fibers will contract more forcefully when fibers are stretched (the more you fill it with blood the better force of contraction)
Fibular (peroneal) artery
Produced by thyroid gland maintains calcium homeostasis by lowering levels in blood
Regulatory proteins that ewnable muscle finers to start or stop contracting

24. Callus
Mass of repair tissue that bridges the end of a long bone
Epiphysis
Inward movement of water fromblood stream into interstitial fluid / highest at arteriol end of capillary (filtration)
Drains into Brachiocephalic

25. GTO
Protects muscle & associated tendon from damage due to over stretch
Irritation of the plural cavity by build up of extra fluid
Dead tissue
In the skin

26. Compliment proteins
Appendix
Binding of myosin to actin - powerstroke - rigor - unbinding - cocking of the myosin heads
Occurs in forearm/ at distal radius
Enhance allergic - inflamatory & immune reactions

27. NK cells release...
Perforin
Function of skin
Diffusion
Elderly person - at ankle joint - distal tibia

28. Perforating canal - circumferentral lamelli - interstitial lamelli
Chyme
NOT part of the osteon
Midline of neck - scm - mandible
Touch receptor in papillae

29. ECG "QRS" wave
Pressure - flow - valves - muscle pump - respiratory pump
Sum of all chemical reactions in the body
In small intestines expands surface area to increase absorption of nutrients
Ventricular depolarization

30. Muscular tube that exits kidneys
Surrounds each myofibril & stores & releases Ca+ when muscle cell is stimulated to contract
Ureter
1st stage if inflamation
Make surfactant in alveolus

31. Nerve plexus that runs thru psoas/QL
Produce Epinephrine or adrenaline
Measure muscle length
Blood diverted to the liver from the digestive tract
Lumbar plexus

32. Anamestic
Having immunity to a disease
Originate on axial skeleton
How T lymphocytes attack
Diaphragm

33. Shaft of bone
Compact bone
Cervical & Lumbar
Anterior and posterior tibial arteries
Associated with stress

34. Blood resevoirs
Ability to specialize cells
Calcitonin
Being immune
Veins 60% of blood at any one time

35. Interferons
Produced by infected body cells - diffuse to non-effected cells to "interfere" with viral replication
Back of hard palat of mouth
Pick up dietary fats and transport them to cysterna chyle
In small intestines expands surface area to increase absorption of nutrients

36. # of facial bones
Red & white pulp
Fluid build up in lower extremily - right side of heart death - fluid build up in lungs - left side of heart death
14
Supply diaphragm

37. Slowest flow of blood
Ascending - hepatic flexure - transverse - splenic flexure - descending - sigmoid - rectum - anus
Occipital bone
Blood pressure
Capillaries

38. Ventricles
Cavities within the brain that make cerebral spinal fluid
Celiac artery
External intercostals
Medulla

39. Capillaries
Functional unit of the respiratory system
Enhance allergic - inflamatory & immune reactions
Located on alveoli - prevent them from sticking together
Carotid arteries

40. Hypoglossal canal
Junctions btw blood vessels serving the same organ
Jugular Vein
Pyloric sphincter
In occiput

41. Crista galli & cribiform plate
Drains into Superior Vena Cava
Lumbar vertebrae
Touch receptor in papillae
Located in Ethmoid

42. Simple diffusion
Transverse foramena
Passive process molecule moves down the concentration gradient (from highest to lowest concentration)
Peritoneum
Gallbladder

43. Hepatic vein
Veins
Blood from liver to the inferior vena cava
Anterior and posterior tibial arteries
Regulatory proteins that ewnable muscle finers to start or stop contracting

44. Crural
Cavities within the brain that make cerebral spinal fluid
Popliteal artery
Front of leg
Associated with stress

45. Anamnestic
Being immune
Midline of neck - scm - mandible
Crystals in bone
Attraction of water to blood

46. Largest mass of lymphatic tissue in body
Fluid build up in lower extremily - right side of heart death - fluid build up in lungs - left side of heart death
Makes up tendons
Red & white pulp
Spleen

47. Connective tissue from Xiphoid to Pubis
Migrate to Thymus and mature
Increase surface area so more can be digested
Linea Alba
Renal Artery

48. # of bones in skull
Gluteus medius
Calcitonin
When you get the disease and create antibodies against it
22

49. Troponin
Anastomoses connecting the cephalic and basilic veins
Moves tropomyosin aside & exposes myosin binding sites when Ca+ is released
Irritation of pleural cavity due to fluid build up
Attaches to corners of mouth

50. Calcitonin
Ascending - hepatic flexure - transverse - splenic flexure - descending - sigmoid - rectum - anus
Separates cerebrum & cerebellum & contains tentorium cerebelli
Immature cell
Produced by thyroid gland maintains calcium homeostasis by lowering levels in blood