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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. periostial blood vessels
Outside of long bones
Abdominal aorta
Cervical & Lumbar
Originate on axial skeleton

2. Endochondral ossification
Cheek bones
No movement in joint (suture)
Vena Cava & pulmonary veins
Formation of bones

3. Metarteriole
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Hormones produced in hypothalmus & stored in (posterior) pituitary
Anchors nuchal ligament
Connects arteriole/venule to a capillary

4. Metarteriol
Capillaries to allow for gas and nutrient exchange
Vomer & mandible
Connects a capillary and a venule
Houses the inner ear

5. Open reduction
Located within and around joints for protection from pressure/ excess acceloration and deceloration
Communited fracture
Setting a bone with surgury
Surgical neck - where metaphasis was

6. Anterior Triangle of neck
Front of leg
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Dorsal and plantar arteries of the foot
Midline of neck - scm - mandible

7. Type B blood
Blood from liver to the inferior vena cava
Has A antiglutens
Found in sutures of the skull - saggital and lambdoidal
Responsible for wakefulness

8. Osmosis
Movement of water down the concentration gradient
Cells attack other cells
Produces T3 - T4 - Calcitonin
Protects muscle & associated tendon from damage due to over stretch

9. Sub-dural space
Articulate with C1 on either side of the Foramen Magnum
Blood from liver to the inferior vena cava
Between dura mater and arachnoid layers - houses interstitial fluid
Red bone marrow & thymus

10. Abdominal aorta splits at L4
Raises blood pressure/lowers heart rate
Formed by 2 lamina coming together
Common Illiacs
Gallbladder

11. Basilic vein
Associated with speech
Rest
Largest - short stubby transv. processes
Superficial vein on the ulnar side of the arm dump into the brachial vein

12. Plurisy
Irritation of the plural cavity by build up of extra fluid
Articulate with C1 on either side of the Foramen Magnum
Held by billroths rods
Saggital - coronal squamous - lambdoidal

13. Artificial active immunity
Vaccination
Pressure - flow - valves - muscle pump - respiratory pump
Dorsal and plantar arteries of the foot
Heaviest bone

14. Facilitated diffusion
Medulla
Deep pressure sensors
Molecule aided by a carrier molecule (PASSIVE)
Produced by infected body cells - diffuse to non-effected cells to "interfere" with viral replication

15. Vomer bone
Covers myosin binding sites on the actin molecules
Lighten skull - voice production - resonate sound
Enhance allergic - inflamatory & immune reactions
Makes up lower part of nasal septum

16. Parts of the Sternum
Abdominal aorta
Manubrium - body - Xiphoid process
Produce Epinephrine or adrenaline
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17. Smallest facial bone
No point of contact with any other bone
Left side of arch - Vertebral Artery branches off of it
Vena Cava & pulmonary veins
Lacrimal

18. Phospholipid tails point...
Lymph nodes - spleen - liver
Passive process molecule moves down the concentration gradient (from highest to lowest concentration)
Toward eachother
Coat alveolus and keep them from collapsing

19. # of facial bones
8
Ureter
14
Ventricular repolarization

20. Vein from liver to Vena Cava
Chemotaxis - adhesion - ingestion - lysis - ejection
Air in pleural cavity
Hepatic vein
Raises blood pressure/lowers heart rate

21. Largest mass of lymphatic tissue in body
Spleen
Each gas exerts it's own partial pressure that contributes to the total pressure of the gas
Ascending - hepatic flexure - transverse - splenic flexure - descending - sigmoid - rectum - anus
(Adenohypophysis) produces 7 hormones

22. Location of cardiovascular center in the brain
Medulla
Serve organs - have more smooth muscle for vasodilation/constriction
Pulmonary arteries
Swelling of lymphatic tissue @ L2 that brings lymph to Thoracic duct (left lymphatic duct)

23. Vagus Nerve CN X
Largest - short stubby transv. processes
Innervates viscera - Major parasympathetic nerve in body
Normal wakefulness
Back of leg

24. Slowest flow of blood
From placenta/nursing (immunity given by someone else)
Hasselmans corpuscles
Cells attack other cells
Capillaries

25. Conjestive Heart failure (CHF)
Attaches to corners of mouth
Pulmonary arteries
Keystone
Fluid build up in lower extremily - right side of heart death - fluid build up in lungs - left side of heart death

26. Transverse fissure
Celiac trunk
Hormone of the skin
Contributes to oppostioi of thumb & pinki
Separates cerebrum & cerebellum & contains tentorium cerebelli

27. Antagonist to PTH
Calcium
Drains into Subclavian - posterior triangle of neck
Calcitonin
Has no antiglutens (universal recipient)

28. sub-arachnoid space
Keystone
Thoracic vertebrae
Between arachnoid layer & pia mater - houses cerebral spinal fluid
Main collecting duct for lymphatic system

29. Type A Blood
Dorsal and plantar arteries of the foot
Has B antiglutens
Lymph nodules in ileum of sm. intestines
Hormone of the skin

30. Sympathetic neurons come from...
Depression in sphenoid bone that houses the pituitary
Anchors nuchal ligament
Muscle cells named for their elongated shape and multinucleated
Lateral horn of thoracic & Lumbar S.C.

31. Type O blood
Supply upper digestive track
Back of hard palat of mouth
Has both A & B antiglutens (Universal Donor)
Stretch receptors

32. Muscle spindles
Perforin and lymphotoxin
Vertebral prominence
Innervates viscera - Major parasympathetic nerve in body
Measure muscle length

33. Femur
Frontal - Ethmoid - maxilla - sphenoid
Shock absorbtion - different terrain
Heaviest bone
Liver

34. Kellog's 'great lymph pump'
Avascular tissue - CNS - red bone marrow & spleen
Diaphragm
Blood
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35. Thymus Gland
Intracellular fluid
Located above heart - atrophies after puberty - assists in maturation of T cells
Innervates viscera - Major parasympathetic nerve in body
Moves tropomyosin aside & exposes myosin binding sites when Ca+ is released

36. Muscle Fibers
Muscle cells named for their elongated shape and multinucleated
Passive process molecule moves down the concentration gradient (from highest to lowest concentration)
Controls sleep cycle
Being immune

37. Vertebral Veins
Diaphragm
Frontal - parietal - temporal occipital - ethmoid - sphenoid
Folds in the brain
Drain into Subclavians

38. Location of respiratory rate center in brain
Chest pain - lack of blood to heart
Houses the inner ear
Medulla
Skeletal muscles

39. Supplies blood to Lg. intestines
Inferior Mesenteric artery
Associated with stress
Blood diverted to the liver from the digestive tract
Drains into Brachiocephalic - In Anterior Triangle of neck

40. Celiac ganglion
Medulla
Air in pleural cavity
Make surfactant in alveolus
Solar plexus

41. Abdominal massage
Held by billroths rods
Blood hydrostatic pressure
Dorsal and plantar arteries of the foot
Raises blood pressure/lowers heart rate

42. Sympathetic chain
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Protects muscle & associated tendon from damage due to over stretch
Branch into hepatic - gastric & splenic
Paravertebral ganglions

43. Billroth's Rods

44. Mandible bone
Saggital - coronal squamous - lambdoidal
Only movable facial bone
Loose connective tissue
No point of contact with any other bone

45. Common iliac veins form
Scoliosis
Cells attack other cells
Lacrimal
Inferior vena cava

46. Drains most of the thorax - used as a bypass to the Inferior Vena Cava
Innervates viscera - Major parasympathetic nerve in body
Azygos System
Passive process molecule moves down the concentration gradient (from highest to lowest concentration)
Holes for spinal nerves to exit the vertebral column

47. Right lymphatic duct drains into...
Protects against muscle/tendon tears
Right subclavian vein
Rest
Diaphragm

48. Left Common Carotid artery
Left side of arch - splits into internal and external
Chyme
Located in the spleen - in the red pulp - remove old RBC's - store platelets - hemopoiesis in fetus
Left subclavian vein

49. Organ that hangs off of secum
Secum - ascending colon - hepatic flexor - transverse colon - splenic flexor - descending colon - sigmoid colon - rectum
Hormone of the skin
In nasal cavity cause air to swirl around
Appendix

50. Myofibrils
Place on molecule where they attach to one another or something else
Hormones produced in hypothalmus & stored in (posterior) pituitary
Bundle of overlapping thick & thin filaments
Myosin heads/bridge gaps btw thin/thick filaments