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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Anastomoses
Junctions between blood vessels serving the same organ - if blood supply is cut off from one place it is rerouted.
Arteries
Vagus 10
Secum - ascending colon - hepatic flexor - transverse colon - splenic flexor - descending colon - sigmoid colon - rectum

2. sSpleen
Held by billroths rods
7 cervical vertebrae - Hyoid bone - Thyroid Cartilage - Cricoid Cartilage - Carotid Tubercle
Blood
Chyme

3. Optical Foramen
Anastomoses connecting the cephalic and basilic veins
Located in Sphenoid
Smooth muscle (cannot vasoconstrict)
Junctions between blood vessels serving the same organ - if blood supply is cut off from one place it is rerouted.

4. Villi in small intestines
Immature cell
Myosin heads/bridge gaps btw thin/thick filaments
Increase surface area so more can be digested
Lighten skull - voice production - resonate sound

5. Foramen Magnum
Popliteal artery
Osteons
Lowest pp CO2
Large hole at the base of occipital bone

6. Metarteriole
Lighten skull - voice production - resonate sound
Medulla - pons - mid brain
Arteries
Connects arteriole/venule to a capillary

7. Peyers patches
Located in Ethmoid
Gluteus medius
Lymph nodules in ileum of sm. intestines
Vomer & mandible

8. Type O blood
Has both A & B antiglutens (Universal Donor)
Swelling of lymphatic tissue @ L2 that brings lymph to Thoracic duct (left lymphatic duct)
Movement
Myosin heads

9. Dalton's law of partial pressure
Renals and Hepatic veins
Each gas exerts a partial pressure contributing to the total pressure of the air
Phrenic
Osteon activity by way of calcium regulation

10. Hasselmans corpuscles
Gluteus maximus
Clusters of cells located in the thymus gland possible for cites of T-cell death
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Raises blood pressure/lowers heart rate

11. Cerebellum
Thoracic vertebrae
Caps the brain
Anterior grey horn of S.C.
Lymph nodes - lungs - spleen

12. Parts of large intestine
Arangement of compact bone
Secum - ascending colon - hepatic flexor - transverse colon - splenic flexor - descending colon - sigmoid colon - rectum
Calcitonin
Found in sutures of the skull - saggital and lambdoidal

13. Sliding filament
Lateral horn of thoracic & Lumbar S.C.
Superficial vein that starts anterior to the medial malleolous and dumps into the femoral vein
Muscles contract because the thin/thick filaments slide past eachother
Serve organs - have more smooth muscle for vasodilation/constriction

14. Ossification completes by age
25
Mass of neural tissue that develops into dorsal root ganglia
Lymphatic nodules at junction of oral cavity & pharynx
Carotid arteries

15. Nerve plexus that runs thru psoas/QL
Lumbar plexus
Left and right coronary arteries
External intercostals
Veins

16. Bony landmarks of anterior neck
Flexes vertebral column
Hormone of the skin
7 cervical vertebrae - Hyoid bone - Thyroid Cartilage - Cricoid Cartilage - Carotid Tubercle
Located on alveoli - prevent them from sticking together

17. T lymphocytes
Elderly person - at ankle joint - distal tibia
Espohagus
Migrate to Thymus and mature
Skin - Connective Tissue - Aponeurosis - Loose connective tissue - Pericranuim

18. Retroperiteneal organs
Kidneys and pancreas
Interstitial fluid comes from blood plasma @ arteriol end - at venus end it returns to the blood
Make skin water resistance
Chyme

19. Beta brain waves
Sum of all chemical reactions in the body
Only movable facial bone
Vagus 10
Normal wakefulness

20. Anterior tibial artery give rise to
Paravertebral ganglions
Water
Dorsal and plantar arteries of the foot
Vomer & mandible

21. Muscular tube that exits kidneys
Pushing the molecule thru the membrane (PASSIVE)
Flexes vertebral column
Lumbar vertebrae
Ureter

22. Responsiveness
Inward movement of water fromblood stream into interstitial fluid / highest at arteriol end of capillary (filtration)
Simple columnar epithelium
Ability to respond to stimuli
Muscle cells named for their elongated shape and multinucleated

23. Hyoid bone
Collagen
Has A antiglutens
No point of contact with any other bone
Cell membrane

24. Mineralcorticoids - Aldosterone
Scoliosis
Diaphragm
Produced by adrenals - hold sodium & prevent dehydration
Cells attack other cells

25. Carries deO2 blood from r. ventricle to the lungs
Inward movement of water fromblood stream into interstitial fluid / highest at arteriol end of capillary (filtration)
Epiphysis
Almond shaped group of neurons in temporal lobe responsible for memory & emotional reaction
Pulmonary arteries

26. Detours venous blood from GI organs & spleen thru liver before returning it to the heart
Hepat Portal circulation
External intercostals
Thoracic vertebrae
Nervous and endocrine

27. Thymus has
Hasselmans corpuscles
Spidery middle layer of the meninges
Compress the abdomen
Root of nose (top bridge)

28. Great lymph pump
Diaphragm
Folds in the brain
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Most mobile & largest

29. C7
Midline of neck - scm - mandible
Avascular tissue - CNS - red bone marrow & spleen
Ethmoid bone
Anchors nuchal ligament

30. Recieves impulses for smell
Perforin and lymphotoxin
Large hole at the base of occipital bone
Medial aspect of temporal lobe of brain
Located in the temporal bone

31. Kellog's 'great lymph pump'
Diaphragm
Supply upper digestive track
Superficial vein on the ulnar side of the arm dump into the brachial vein
Posterior pituitary stores Oxytocin & ADH

32. Abdominal aorta bifurcates into
@ arteriol end of capillary blood colloidal osmotic pressure is higher than blood hydrostatic pressure - vice versa at the venus end
Produced by infected body cells - diffuse to non-effected cells to "interfere" with viral replication
Located in the spleen - in the red pulp - remove old RBC's - store platelets - hemopoiesis in fetus
Common illiac arteries

33. Rickets
Childhood osteomalacia
In occiput
Lacrimal
Outer layer of the meninges

34. Sacrum
Blood diverted to the liver from the digestive tract
Keystone
Brain stem (cranio) & lateral horn of sacral S.C.
Chemotaxis - adhesion - ingestion - lysis - ejection

35. Anterior pituitary
Gluteus medius
Osteons
(Adenohypophysis) produces 7 hormones
Cells attack other cells

36. Most abundant chemical element in the body
Base of occipital bone
Valve between stomach & duodenum
Carbon
Blood pressure

37. Cell mediated immunity
Swelling of lymphatic tissue @ L2 that brings lymph to Thoracic duct (left lymphatic duct)
Cells attack other cells
Lateral horn of thoracic & Lumbar S.C.
Alveoli

38. Supplies blood to brain
Carotid arteries
Motor pathway
Occipital bone
Femoral artery @ inguinal ligament

39. At the venous end of capillaries which force predominates
Blood colloidal osmotic pressure
8
Crystals in bone
Inferior vena cava

40. Pineal Gland
Removes RBC - WBC - stores platelets
Folds in the brain
Base of occipital bone
Controls sleep cycle

41. C2/axis
Has dens which articualtes with atlas
Popliteal artery
Anastomoses connecting the cephalic and basilic veins
Regulatory proteins that ewnable muscle finers to start or stop contracting

42. # of bones in skull
Hepatic vein
Drains into Brachiocephalic - In Anterior Triangle of neck
22
Pyloric sphincter

43. Organ that hangs off of secum
Appendix
Make surfactant in alveolus
ABCD - Asymmetry - Border - Color - Diameter
Medulla

44. Vertebral foramen
Toward eachother
Junctions btw blood vessels serving the same organ
NOT part of the osteon
Hole for spinal cord

45. Merkels discs
Ascending - Arch - Descending
Located in epidermis
Portal vein
Espohagus

46. Abdominal massage
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Hepat Portal circulation
Located above heart - atrophies after puberty - assists in maturation of T cells
Raises arteriol pressure & lowers heartrate

47. Organs that have a hilus
Lymph nodes - spleen - liver
Right side of arch - becomes right subclavian artery & Right Common Carotid
Alveoli
Death of tissue caused by blood blockage

48. Abdominal massage
Has both A & B antiglutens (Universal Donor)
Raises blood pressure/lowers heart rate
Surgical neck - where metaphasis was
Muscles contract because the thin/thick filaments slide past eachother

49. Lamellar granules
Blood hydrostatic pressure
Make skin water resistance
Has no antiglutens (universal recipient)
Surgical neck - where metaphasis was

50. lowest pp O2 in...
Solar plexus
Tissues
Produce Epinephrine or adrenaline
Mentalis