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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Androgens
Antibody injection
Sacral & Thoracic
Most moveable bone of the skull
Produced by adrenals - form male/female sex characteristics

2. Joint kinesthetic receptor
Alveoli
Intracellular fluid
Located within and around joints for protection from pressure/ excess acceloration and deceloration
Appendix

3. Simple diffusion
Myosin heads/bridge gaps btw thin/thick filaments
Anterior grey horn of S.C.
Passive process molecule moves down the concentration gradient (from highest to lowest concentration)
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4. Pyloric sphincter
Valve between stomach & duodenum
Cardiac output - volume - periferal resistance
Diaphragm
Ventricular repolarization

5. Filtration
Root of nose (top bridge)
Pushing the molecule thru the membrane (PASSIVE)
Simple columnar epithelium
Closing of the fontanells of babies

6. Vertebral Arteries
Posterior pituitary stores Oxytocin & ADH
Pulmonary veins
Arise off of Subclavians - within Transverse processes of cervicals - brings blood to brain
Osteons

7. Type AB blood
Superficial vein on the radial side of the arm dump into the axillary vein
Presence of thymine in DNA not RNA
Has no antiglutens (universal recipient)
Growth rings on cross section of bone

8. Packed Cell transfusion
Muscles contract because the thin/thick filaments slide past eachother
Alveoli
Most commom blood transfusion
Attaches to corners of mouth

9. Pneumothorax
Air in pleural cavity
Stored energy
L & R common iliacs
Diaphragm

10. Abdominal massage
Back of hard palat of mouth
@ arteriol end of capillary blood colloidal osmotic pressure is higher than blood hydrostatic pressure - vice versa at the venus end
Being immune
Raises arteriol pressure & lowers heartrate

11. Anamnestic
Crystals in bone
Gallbladder
Being immune
Contributes to oppostioi of thumb & pinki

12. Primary Vertebral Curves
Sacral & Thoracic
Pick up fat and bring back to CV system via lymphatics
Skin - Connective Tissue - Aponeurosis - Loose connective tissue - Pericranuim
Diaphragm

13. Order of colon
Ascending - hepatic flexure - transverse - splenic flexure - descending - sigmoid - rectum - anus
Contributes to oppostioi of thumb & pinki
Muscles contract because the thin/thick filaments slide past eachother
Line stomach - produce mucus & heparin

14. Wormian bones (sutural bones)
Found in sutures of the skull - saggital and lambdoidal
Pyloric sphincter
Make surfactant in alveolus
Houses the inner ear

15. Neurohypophysis
Solar plexus
Innervates diaphram
Ethmoid bone
Posterior pituitary stores Oxytocin & ADH

16. Inorganic substance that makes bone hard
Solar plexus
Duodenum - jejunum - ilium
Calcium
Frontal - Ethmoid - Maxillary - Sphenoid

17. Secondary lymph organs
Chest pain - lack of blood to heart
Thick filament (contractile protein)
Setting a bone with a cast or splint
Spleen - lymph nodes

18. Mitosis
Brain stem (cranio) & lateral horn of sacral S.C.
Growth and repair cell reproduction
Scoliosis
When you get the disease and create antibodies against it

19. Muscle Fibers
Basilar artery
Removes RBC - WBC - stores platelets
Compress the abdomen
Muscle cells named for their elongated shape and multinucleated

20. Muscular arteries
Movement
Arteries that supply organs and have to ability to vassoconstric/dilate
Makes up lower part of nasal septum
Supply upper digestive track

21. Epiphysis of bone
Spongy/cancellous bone
Drains into Brachiocephalic
Back of leg
Ability to specialize cells

22. Sarcomere
Dead tissue
Produced by adrenals - hold sodium & prevent dehydration
A section of each myofibril that is bordered on either side by z lines
Accepts the weight of the body & transfers it to the foot

23. Golgi tendon organ
Protects against muscle/tendon tears
Lighten skull - voice production - resonate sound
Espohagus
Sits behind the brain stem - responsible for balance

24. Higehest pp O2 in...
Associated with speech
Root of nose (top bridge)
Alveoli
Diffusion

25. main blood supply to the arm - commonly used to take BP
Produces T3 - T4 - Calcitonin
Alveoli
Nervous and endocrine
Brachial Artery

26. Abdominal aorta bifurcates into
Relay center for all sensory information going in/out of brain
Common illiac arteries
Most abundant cell in epidermis
Enhance allergic - inflamatory & immune reactions

27. Thymus has
Hasselmans corpuscles
Crystals in bone
Has no antiglutens (universal recipient)
Ethmoid bone

28. Type A Blood
External intercostals
Irritation of the plural cavity by build up of extra fluid
Diaphragm
Has B antiglutens

29. Lesser Saphenous vein
Superficial vein that starts at the lateral malleolous and dumps into the poplitial vein
Rest
Blood hydrostatic pressure - blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Outside of long bones

30. visceral serous pericardium
Chyme
Diaphysis
Diffusion
Epicardium

31. ___________ also in Alveoli
Lowest pp CO2
Atrial depolarization
Perforin and lymphotoxin
Response enhances stimulus

32. Vertebral foramen
Occipital bone
Amount of energy required to stick 2 molecules together
UV light
Hole for spinal cord

33. Superior Nuchal Line
Controls and regulates pituitary
Hormone of the skin
Ridge that goes through the EOP
Located in Ethmoid

34. Myofibrils
Lymphatic nodules at junction of oral cavity & pharynx
Bundle of overlapping thick & thin filaments
For blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Posterior pituitary stores Oxytocin & ADH

35. Pressure resevoir
Death of tissue caused by blood blockage
Molecule aided by a carrier molecule (PASSIVE)
Arteries
Enhance allergic - inflamatory & immune reactions

36. Tallus
Accepts the weight of the body & transfers it to the foot
Gallbladder
Jugular Vein
Basal cell carcinoma

37. Vitamin D synthesis needs
UV light
In occiput
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Innervates diaphram

38. Left Subclavian Artery
Front of leg
Superficial vein that starts anterior to the medial malleolous and dumps into the femoral vein
Vena Cava & pulmonary veins
Left side of arch - Vertebral Artery branches off of it

39. Cortisol
External intercostals
Anti-inflamitory produced by Adrenal Glands
Used in tissue transplants to determine if the body will reject the tissue
Celiac artery

40. Nerve to diaphragm
Protects muscle & associated tendon from damage due to over stretch
Phrenic
Make skin water resistance
Presence of thymine in DNA not RNA

41. Tonsils
Produced by adrenals - hold sodium & prevent dehydration
Removes RBC - WBC - stores platelets
Base of occipital bone
Lymphatic nodules at junction of oral cavity & pharynx

42. Nerve plexus that runs thru psoas/QL
Normal wakefulness
Blood in pleural cavity
Lumbar plexus
Lacrimal

43. 5 factors that push blood in veins back to heart
Each gas exerts it's own partial pressure that contributes to the total pressure of the gas
Surrounds each myofibril & stores & releases Ca+ when muscle cell is stimulated to contract
Pressure - flow - valves - muscle pump - respiratory pump
UV light

44. Subclavian Vein
Keystone
Veins
Drains into Brachiocephalic
Connects arteriole/venule to a capillary

45. 5 layers of epidermis
On palms and soles of feet
Getting the disease and creating antibodies
Produce Epinephrine or adrenaline
Red & white pulp

46. Melatonin
Sits behind the brain stem - responsible for balance
Facets for ribs - long sharp Spinous processes
Hormone produced by pineal gland
Transverse foramena

47. Phospholipid bilayer
L & R common iliacs
Closing of the fontanells of babies
Cell membrane
Perforin and lymphotoxin

48. Lacrimal bones
Prevertebral ganglions
Take blood back to heart
Medial part of inside of eye
Produced by adrenals - form male/female sex characteristics

49. # of facial bones
Pubic bone
Prevertebral ganglions
Produced in Parathyroid - raises calcium blood levels
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50. PTH
Hepat Portal circulation
Produced in Parathyroid - raises calcium blood levels
Each gas exerts a partial pressure contributing to the total pressure of the air
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