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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Medulla of Adrenals
Front of leg
Between dura mater and arachnoid layers - houses interstitial fluid
SCM - Trapezius - Clavicle
Produce Epinephrine or adrenaline

2. Brachiocephalic Artery
Irritation of the plural cavity by build up of extra fluid
Right side of arch - becomes right subclavian artery & Right Common Carotid
Spleen
Mass of repair tissue that bridges the end of a long bone

3. Crossbridge cycle
Produced by thyroid gland maintains calcium homeostasis by lowering levels in blood
Lighten skull - voice production - resonate sound
Held by billroths rods
Binding of myosin to actin - powerstroke - rigor - unbinding - cocking of the myosin heads

4. Palatine bones
Back of hard palat of mouth
Has no antiglutens (universal recipient)
Atlas - no body - no pedicle - no lamina - no SP
Flexes vertebral column

5. Neurohypophysis
Regulatory proteins that ewnable muscle finers to start or stop contracting
Posterior pituitary stores Oxytocin & ADH
Chyme
Espohagus

6. Highest pp of CO2 is in...
Superficial vein that starts at the lateral malleolous and dumps into the poplitial vein
Brain stem (cranio) & lateral horn of sacral S.C.
Crystals in bone
Intracellular fluid

7. Opening in transverse processes for vertebral artery and vein in cervical region
Contributes to oppostioi of thumb & pinki
Alveoli
Anti-inflamitory produced by Adrenal Glands
Transverse foramena

8. Tallus
Atrial depolarization
Accepts the weight of the body & transfers it to the foot
Main collecting duct for lymphatic system
Appendix

9. Passive artificial immunity
Mandible
Makes up tendons
Antibody injection
Azygos System

10. Vertebral Arteries
Suprarenal Glands
Arise off of Subclavians - within Transverse processes of cervicals - brings blood to brain
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Abdominal aorta

11. Abdominal massage
Thoracic vertebrae
Portal vein
Air in pleural cavity
Raises blood pressure/lowers heart rate

12. Merkels discs
Located in epidermis
Ventricular depolarization
Movement of water down the concentration gradient
Stored energy

13. Optical Foramen
Vomer & mandible
Make up the nasal septum
Found in sutures of the skull - saggital and lambdoidal
Located in Sphenoid

14. Colles fracture
Transverse foramena
Occurs in forearm/ at distal radius
Makes up lower part of nasal septum
Lack of blood to an area - can cause hypoxia

15. Phrenic nerve
In osseous tissue - where nerves & blood vessels are found
Setting a bone with a cast or splint
Arteries
Innervates diaphram

16. Femoral artery becomes
Movement of water down the concentration gradient
Most commom blood transfusion
Popliteal artery
Sum of all chemical reactions in the body

17. Kellog's 'great lymph pump'
Diaphragm
Presence of thymine in DNA not RNA
Skin - Connective Tissue - Aponeurosis - Loose connective tissue - Pericranuim
Anterior and posterior tibial arteries

18. Organs that have a hilus
Diaphragm
Cardiac output - volume - periferal resistance
Lymph nodes - lungs - spleen
Cavities within the brain that make cerebral spinal fluid

19. Sympathetic neurons come from...
Lymph nodules in ileum of sm. intestines
Occipital bone
Lumbar plexus
Lateral horn of thoracic & Lumbar S.C.

20. # of cranial bones
Fluid build up in lower extremily - right side of heart death - fluid build up in lungs - left side of heart death
Back of leg
Raises arteriol pressure & lowers heartrate
8

21. Amphiarthrosis
Dorsal and plantar arteries of the foot
Some movement in a joint
Delicate vascular inner layer of the meninges - indirect contact with the brain
Innervates viscera - Major parasympathetic nerve in body

22. Meiosis
Pulmonary arteries
Vaccination
Reproductive cell division
Blood

23. Cortex of Adrenals
Veins 60% of blood at any one time
Produce Glucocorticoids - cortisol - mineralcorticoids - aldosterone - androgens
Pick up dietary fats and transport them to cysterna chyle
Vagus 10

24. Interferons
Produced by infected body cells - diffuse to non-effected cells to "interfere" with viral replication
Migrate to Thymus and mature
Branch into hepatic - gastric & splenic
Located in the temporal bone

25. Carries deO2 blood from r. ventricle to the lungs
Pulmonary arteries
Located within and around joints for protection from pressure/ excess acceloration and deceloration
Depression in sphenoid bone that houses the pituitary
Vena Cava & pulmonary veins

26. Pleurisy
Hormones produced in hypothalmus & stored in (posterior) pituitary
Irritation of pleural cavity due to fluid build up
For blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Epiphysis

27. Aerolar tissue
How T lymphocytes attack
Cardiac muscle fibers will contract more forcefully when fibers are stretched (the more you fill it with blood the better force of contraction)
Loose connective tissue
Drains into Brachiocephalic

28. Order of colon
Sacral & Thoracic
Atrial depolarization
Ascending - hepatic flexure - transverse - splenic flexure - descending - sigmoid - rectum - anus
Holes in T.P's - bifurcated S.P.'s

29. Slowsest flow of blood
Capillaries to allow for gas and nutrient exchange
Hormones produced in hypothalmus & stored in (posterior) pituitary
Hepatic vein
Lymph nodules in ileum of sm. intestines

30. Potts fracture
Elderly person - at ankle joint - distal tibia
Outside of long bones
Simple columnar epithelium
Diffusion

31. Inferior mesenteric arteries
Celiac artery
Blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Supply lower GI tract
Collagen

32. 5 factors that push blood in veins back to heart
Enhance allergic - inflamatory & immune reactions
Pressure - flow - valves - muscle pump - respiratory pump
Appendix
Medulla

33. Fastest flow of blood
Pulling fluid FROM interstitial spaces into the capillary/ highest at venule end of capillary (reabsorption)
Kidneys and pancreas
Ability to respond to stimuli
Arteries

34. C1
Irritation of the plural cavity by build up of extra fluid
Atlas - no body - no pedicle - no lamina - no SP
Amount of energy required to stick 2 molecules together
Water

35. Maxilla bones
Produce Glucocorticoids - cortisol - mineralcorticoids - aldosterone - androgens
Released energy
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Top part of face (attached to zygomatics)

36. Mandible bone
Basilar artery
Touch receptors
Only movable facial bone
Arteries

37. Supplies blood to brain
In small intestines expands surface area to increase absorption of nutrients
Only movable facial bone
Carotid arteries
Occurs in forearm/ at distal radius

38. Cervical vertebrae

39. Anamnestic
Has both A & B antiglutens (Universal Donor)
Line stomach - produce mucus & heparin
Being immune
Thick filament (contractile protein)

40. Where does interstitial fluid come from?
Brachial Artery
Saggital - coronal squamous - lambdoidal
Blood
Cardiac output - volume - periferal resistance

41. 3 parts of small intestine
Celiac trunk
Superficial vein on the ulnar side of the arm dump into the brachial vein
Duodenum - jejunum - ilium
Motor pathway

42. Highest pp CO2 in...
Has both A & B antiglutens (Universal Donor)
Chest pain - lack of blood to heart
Intracellular fluid
Moves tropomyosin aside & exposes myosin binding sites when Ca+ is released

43. posterior triangle of neck
Collagen
SCM - Trapezius - Clavicle
Connects arteriole/venule to a capillary
Molecule aided by a carrier molecule (PASSIVE)

44. Dalton's law of partial pressure
Each gas exerts a partial pressure contributing to the total pressure of the air
Sa node - av node - av bundle - bundle branches - conduction myofibers (Perkinje)
Pulmonary veins
Mentalis

45. Filtration
Pushing the molecule thru the membrane (PASSIVE)
Junctions btw blood vessels serving the same organ
Muscles contract because the thin/thick filaments slide past eachother
Drains into Subclavian - posterior triangle of neck

46. Muscular arteries
Arteries that supply organs and have to ability to vassoconstric/dilate
Perforin and lymphotoxin
Innervates diaphram
Cervical & Lumbar

47. Sella turcica
Liver
Produced by adrenals - form male/female sex characteristics
Depression in sphenoid bone that houses the pituitary
Inferior Mesenteric artery

48. C7
Vertebral prominence
Line stomach - produce mucus & heparin
Lumbar vertebrae
Lumbar plexus

49. Septal cells I(type II)
Pubic bone
Alveoli
External intercostals
Located on alveoli - prevent them from sticking together

50. Starling's law of the capillaries
Getting the disease and creating antibodies
@ arteriol end of capillary blood colloidal osmotic pressure is higher than blood hydrostatic pressure - vice versa at the venus end
Between stomach & espohagus
Only movable facial bone