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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Antigen mediated immunity
Attacks pathogens dissolved in body fluids
Response enhances stimulus
Perforin and lymphotoxin
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2. Starlings law of the heart
Cardiac muscle fibers will contract more forcefully when fibers are stretched (the more you fill it with blood the better force of contraction)
Osteon activity by way of calcium regulation
Stored energy
Blood hydrostatic pressure - blood colloidal osmotic pressure

3. Crural
Used in tissue transplants to determine if the body will reject the tissue
Hasselmans corpuscles
Front of leg
NOT part of the osteon

4. Most common abnormal curve of spine
Posterior pituitary stores Oxytocin & ADH
Contributes to oppostioi of thumb & pinki
Scoliosis
Lighten skull - voice production - resonate sound

5. Anastomoses
Death of tissue caused by blood blockage
Cavities within the brain that make cerebral spinal fluid
Setting a bone with a cast or splint
Junctions between blood vessels serving the same organ - if blood supply is cut off from one place it is rerouted.

6. Cerebellum
Diaphragm
Most moveable bone of the skull
Sits behind the brain stem - responsible for balance
Rectus sheath

7. Right lymphatic duct drains into...
Pubic bone
Produced in Parathyroid - raises calcium blood levels
Drains into Brachiocephalic
Right subclavian vein

8. Epiphysis of bone
Capillaries
Spongy/cancellous bone
Inferior vena cava
Occipital bone

9. lowest pp O2 in...
Accepts the weight of the body & transfers it to the foot
Posterior pituitary stores Oxytocin & ADH
Surgical neck - where metaphasis was
Tissues

10. 4 forces on blood entering capillaries
Blood
Keystone
Thick filament (contractile protein)
Blood osmotic pressure - blood hydrostatic pressure

11. Artificial active immunity
Left side of arch - splits into internal and external
Vaccination
Touch receptor in papillae
Nervous and endocrine

12. Passive natural immunity
Controls and regulates pituitary
For blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Placenta & nursing
NOT part of the osteon

13. Cortex of Adrenals
Produce Glucocorticoids - cortisol - mineralcorticoids - aldosterone - androgens
Response is opposite of stimulus
Produce Epinephrine or adrenaline
All other bones of the skull (keystone)

14. Thoracic vertrbrae
Facets for ribs - long sharp Spinous processes
Simple columnar epithelium
Has A antiglutens
Protects muscle & associated tendon from damage due to over stretch

15. Spinous processes
Largest - short stubby transv. processes
Avascular tissues - CNS - Red bone marrow or spleen
Relay center for all sensory information going in/out of brain
Formed by 2 lamina coming together

16. Cortisol
Hormones produced in hypothalmus & stored in (posterior) pituitary
Anti-inflamitory produced by Adrenal Glands
Drain into Subclavians
Between stomach & espohagus

17. Recieves impulses for smell
Blood in pleural cavity
Medial aspect of temporal lobe of brain
Connects arteriole/venule to a capillary
Between arachnoid layer & pia mater - houses cerebral spinal fluid

18. Type A Blood
Great Saphenous Vein
Most mobile & largest
@ arteriol end of capillary blood colloidal osmotic pressure is higher than blood hydrostatic pressure - vice versa at the venus end
Has B antiglutens

19. Adrenal glands
Brain stem (cranio) & lateral horn of sacral S.C.
Uses ATP by membrane
Pick up fat and bring back to CV system via lymphatics
Suprarenal Glands

20. Simple diffusion
Between stomach & espohagus
Raises blood calcium
Skin - Connective Tissue - Aponeurosis - Loose connective tissue - Pericranuim
Passive process molecule moves down the concentration gradient (from highest to lowest concentration)

21. Vertebral Arteries
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Arise off of Subclavians - within Transverse processes of cervicals - brings blood to brain
Pushing the molecule thru the membrane (PASSIVE)
Transverse - internal & externals

22. Beyond the diaphragm aorta is called...
Abdominal aorta
Air in pleural cavity
Right side of arch - becomes right subclavian artery & Right Common Carotid
Sum of all chemical reactions in the body

23. Joint kinesthetic receptor
Located within and around joints for protection from pressure/ excess acceloration and deceloration
Brachial Artery
In nasal cavity cause air to swirl around
Prevertebral ganglions

24. Perpendicular plate & vomer
Make up the nasal septum
Renal Artery
How T lymphocytes attack
Some movement in a joint

25. Fasicle
Depression in sphenoid bone that houses the pituitary
Celiac artery
Dead tissue
Bundle of individual muscle fibers (cells)

26. # of bones in skull
22
Epiphysis
Cheek bones
Connects arteriole/venule to a capillary

27. Vitamin D synthesis needs
Response is opposite of stimulus
Valve between stomach & duodenum
UV light
External intercostals

28. Neural crest
Also called adrenaline - produced by medulla of Adrenals
Sa node - av node - av bundle - bundle branches - conduction myofibers (Perkinje)
Deep pressure sensors
Mass of neural tissue that develops into dorsal root ganglia

29. Detours venous blood from GI organs & spleen thru liver before returning it to the heart
Touch receptor in papillae
Hepat Portal circulation
Formation of bones
Associated with stress

30. Highest pp CO2 in...
Inferior vena cava
CHON - Carbon - Hydrogen - Oxygen - Nitrogen
Molecule aided by a carrier molecule (PASSIVE)
Intracellular fluid

31. # of cranial bones
Anterior and posterior tibial arteries
8
Inward movement of water fromblood stream into interstitial fluid / highest at arteriol end of capillary (filtration)
Alveoli

32. Mineralcorticoids - Aldosterone
Drains into Brachiocephalic - In Anterior Triangle of neck
Produced by adrenals - hold sodium & prevent dehydration
Celiac artery
Sa node - av node - av bundle - bundle branches - conduction myofibers (Perkinje)

33. periostial blood vessels
Pressure - flow - valves - muscle pump - respiratory pump
Epicardium
Muscle cells named for their elongated shape and multinucleated
Outside of long bones

34. Metarteriole
Alveoli
Connects arteriole/venule to a capillary
Delicate vascular inner layer of the meninges - indirect contact with the brain
Ability to grow

35. Left Common Carotid artery
Liver
Internal intercostals & Abs
Left side of arch - splits into internal and external
Dead tissue

36. GTO
Produced by infected body cells - diffuse to non-effected cells to "interfere" with viral replication
Protects muscle & associated tendon from damage due to over stretch
Gallbladder
Root of nose (top bridge)

37. Actin
Connects arteriole/venule to a capillary
Anchors nuchal ligament
Alveoli
Thin filament (contractile protein)

38. At the arteriol end of the capillary which force predominates
Water
Hepat Portal circulation
Blood hydrostatic pressure
Attacks pathogens dissolved in body fluids

39. Theta waves
Associated with stress
No body - no spinous processes
Lymph nodules in ileum of sm. intestines
Cavities within the brain that make cerebral spinal fluid

40. Fastest flow of blood
Lumbar plexus
Arteries
Holes in T.P's - bifurcated S.P.'s
Veins 60% of blood at any one time

41. Takes food to the tummy
Capillaries to allow for gas and nutrient exchange
Espohagus
Appendix
Located bleow thyroid - produces PTH

42. Vein from liver to Vena Cava
Base of occipital bone
Touch receptor in papillae
Hepatic vein
Hormone of the skin

43. Phrenic nerve
Only movable facial bone
Raises blood calcium
Pick up fat and bring back to CV system via lymphatics
Innervates diaphram

44. Most abundant chemical element in the body
Jugular Vein
Anchors nuchal ligament
Gluteus maximus
Carbon

45. Pleurisy
Vaccination
Basal cell carcinoma
CHON - Carbon - Hydrogen - Oxygen - Nitrogen
Irritation of pleural cavity due to fluid build up

46. Thyroid gland
Axis - dens is point of rotation
Smooth muscle (cannot vasoconstrict)
Produces T3 - T4 - Calcitonin
Common Illiac Arteries

47. Secondary Vertebral curves
Capillaries to allow for gas and nutrient exchange
Cervical & Lumbar
Top part of face (attached to zygomatics)
When you get the disease and create antibodies against it

48. vasodilation & increased permiability of blood vessels
Frontal - Ethmoid - Maxillary - Sphenoid
Calcitonin
Branched off of Brachiocephalic - splits into internal & external
1st stage if inflamation

49. Starling's law of capillaries 2
Interstitial fluid comes from blood plasma @ arteriol end - at venus end it returns to the blood
Internal intercostals & Abs
Cavities within the brain that make cerebral spinal fluid
Crystals in bone

50. Active site
Makes up tendons
Keystone
Immature cell
Place on molecule where they attach to one another or something else