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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Villi
Top part of face (attached to zygomatics)
Cardiac muscle fibers will contract more forcefully when fibers are stretched (the more you fill it with blood the better force of contraction)
In small intestines expands surface area to increase absorption of nutrients
Suprarenal Glands

2. Crossbridges
Chemotaxis - adhesion - ingestion - lysis - ejection
Myosin heads/bridge gaps btw thin/thick filaments
Occurs in forearm/ at distal radius
Carotid arteries

3. Hydroxyapartites
Crystals in bone
Hole for spinal cord
Celiac artery
Immature cell

4. Vertebral Arteries
Connects pituitary & Hypothalmus
Fluid build up in lower extremily - right side of heart death - fluid build up in lungs - left side of heart death
Arise off of Subclavians - within Transverse processes of cervicals - brings blood to brain
Largest - short stubby transv. processes

5. Stems cell
Vagus 10
Immature cell
Chemotaxis - adhesion - ingestion - lysis - ejection
Frontal - Ethmoid - Maxillary - Sphenoid

6. Brocha's area
Associated with speech
Branched off of Brachiocephalic - splits into internal & external
Calcium
Suprarenal Glands

7. Passive natural immunity
Used in tissue transplants to determine if the body will reject the tissue
Common Illiacs
Placenta & nursing
Common illiac arteries

8. Signs of skin cancer
Appendix
ABCD - Asymmetry - Border - Color - Diameter
Cervical & Lumbar
Irritation of pleural cavity due to fluid build up

9. Vein from Stomach to Liver
Portal vein
Located in the spleen - in the red pulp - remove old RBC's - store platelets - hemopoiesis in fetus
Transverse - internal & externals
Blood pressure

10. # of cranial bones
Left subclavian vein
Superficial vein on the radial side of the arm dump into the axillary vein
Right side of arch - becomes right subclavian artery & Right Common Carotid
8

11. Pyramidal pathway
Great Saphenous Vein
Junctions btw blood vessels serving the same organ
Movement of water down the concentration gradient
Motor pathway

12. Thoracic duct drains into...
Transverse foramena
Cheek bones
Left subclavian vein
Tissues

13. Great lymph pump
Chemotaxis - adhesion - ingestion - lysis - ejection
Diaphragm
Chyme
Gluteus maximus

14. ECG "T" wave
ABCD - Asymmetry - Border - Color - Diameter
Ventricular repolarization
Ascending - Arch - Descending
NOT part of the osteon

15. Neural crest
Lumbar vertebrae
Mass of neural tissue that develops into dorsal root ganglia
25
Has no antiglutens (universal recipient)

16. # of facial bones
Hepatic vein
Vomer & mandible
Placenta & nursing
14

17. Long contraction of the heart =
Uses ATP by membrane
Relay center for all sensory information going in/out of brain
Longer refractory peroid
Houses the inner ear

18. Iliocecal sphincter
How T lymphocytes attack
Medulla
Valve between ilium & cecum of lg intestines
Manubrium - body - Xiphoid process

19. Foramen Magnum
Large hole at the base of occipital bone
Alveoli
Contributes to oppostioi of thumb & pinki
Front of leg

20. Active site
Mentalis
UV light
Place on molecule where they attach to one another or something else
Compress the abdomen

21. Lesser Saphenous vein
Air in pleural cavity
Blood diverted to the liver from the digestive tract
Superficial vein that starts at the lateral malleolous and dumps into the poplitial vein
Make up the nasal septum

22. Oxytocin & ADH
Hormones produced in hypothalmus & stored in (posterior) pituitary
Appendix
Drains into Brachiocephalic
Basilar artery

23. Crista galli & cribiform plate
Located in Ethmoid
Tissues
Hormone produced by pineal gland
Amount of energy required to stick 2 molecules together

24. Parts of the Sternum
Manubrium - body - Xiphoid process
Great Saphenous Vein
Clusters of cells located in the thymus gland possible for cites of T-cell death
CHON - Carbon - Hydrogen - Oxygen - Nitrogen

25. Parts of large intestine
Secum - ascending colon - hepatic flexor - transverse colon - splenic flexor - descending colon - sigmoid colon - rectum
Irritation of pleural cavity due to fluid build up
Cheek bones
Internal intercostals & Abs

26. Major Histocompatibility complex (MHC)
Bundle of individual muscle fibers (cells)
Used in tissue transplants to determine if the body will reject the tissue
Each gas exerts it's own partial pressure that contributes to the total pressure of the gas
Anastomoses connecting the cephalic and basilic veins

27. Active transport
Uses ATP by membrane
Produces T3 - T4 - Calcitonin
Myosin heads
Anterior and posterior tibial arteries

28. Passive natural immunity
Supply diaphragm
Medulla
From placenta/nursing (immunity given by someone else)
Junctions between blood vessels serving the same organ - if blood supply is cut off from one place it is rerouted.

29. Positive feedback system
Response enhances stimulus
Medial aspect of temporal lobe of brain
Anastomoses connecting the cephalic and basilic veins
Blood diverted to the liver from the digestive tract

30. Drains blood from Sm/Lg intestines - stomach & pancreas
Front of leg
Outside of long bones
Calcitonin
Superior Mesenteric Vein

31. Spongy bone does not have...
Cell membrane for each muscle fiber
Inferior Mesenteric artery
Diaphragm
Osteons

32. PTH
Motor pathway
Childhood osteomalacia
Raises blood calcium
Sits behind the brain stem - responsible for balance

33. Septal cells (type II)
Solar plexus
Make surfactant in alveolus
Amount of energy required to stick 2 molecules together
Drains into Brachiocephalic

34. perforin & lymphotoxin
Superficial vein on the radial side of the arm dump into the axillary vein
Located bleow thyroid - produces PTH
Linea Alba
How T lymphocytes attack

35. Functions of arches of foot
Blood osmotic pressure - blood hydrostatic pressure
Shock absorbtion - different terrain
Serve organs - have more smooth muscle for vasodilation/constriction
Right side of arch - becomes right subclavian artery & Right Common Carotid

36. Albumines
Makes up tendons
For blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Main collecting duct for lymphatic system
Peritoneum

37. Meissner corpuscle
Freely moveable joint (all synovial)
Relay center for all sensory information going in/out of brain
Alveoli
Touch receptor in papillae

38. Anastomoses
Appendix
Anchors nuchal ligament
Top part of face (attached to zygomatics)
Junctions between blood vessels serving the same organ - if blood supply is cut off from one place it is rerouted.

39. # of facial bones
Enhance allergic - inflamatory & immune reactions
Houses the inner ear
14
Keystone

40. Lats and pecs
Migrate to Thymus and mature
Enhance allergic - inflamatory & immune reactions
Secum - ascending colon - hepatic flexor - transverse colon - splenic flexor - descending colon - sigmoid colon - rectum
Originate on axial skeleton

41. Kellog's 'great lymph pump'
Toward eachother
Lymph nodules in ileum of sm. intestines
Midline of neck - scm - mandible
Diaphragm

42. veins that have no valves
Anterior grey horn of S.C.
Vena Cava & pulmonary veins
Deep pressure sensors
Loose connective tissue

43. Femur
Passive process molecule moves down the concentration gradient (from highest to lowest concentration)
Heaviest bone
Lacrimal
Produce Epinephrine or adrenaline

44. Villi in small intestines
Lymph nodules in ileum of sm. intestines
Increase surface area so more can be digested
Holes in T.P's - bifurcated S.P.'s
Manubrium - body - Xiphoid process

45. Celiac arteries
In the skin
Located in Sphenoid
Blood osmotic pressure - blood hydrostatic pressure
Branch into hepatic - gastric & splenic

46. Callus
Produce Epinephrine or adrenaline
Mass of repair tissue that bridges the end of a long bone
Has dens which articualtes with atlas
Pick up dietary fats and transport them to cysterna chyle

47. 80% of all skin cancers
Ventricular repolarization
Increase surface area so more can be digested
Avascular tissues - CNS - Red bone marrow or spleen
Basal cell carcinoma

48. Sarcoplasm
Measure muscle length
Myosin heads
Holes for spinal nerves to exit the vertebral column
Cytoplasm inside each muscle fiber that contains mitochondria & myofibrils

49. Part of the venous circulation of the leg - used in bypass surgury
Ridge that goes through the EOP
Pulling fluid FROM interstitial spaces into the capillary/ highest at venule end of capillary (reabsorption)
Great Saphenous Vein
Common illiac arteries

50. Tropomyosin
Between arachnoid layer & pia mater - houses cerebral spinal fluid
Covers myosin binding sites on the actin molecules
A section of each myofibril that is bordered on either side by z lines
Arteries