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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Merkel cells
Left and right coronary arteries
L & R common iliacs
Mandible
Touch receptors

2. Contribut to movement of lymph
Mass of neural tissue that develops into dorsal root ganglia
Contraction of muscle & respiratory pump
Setting a bone with surgury
Blood in pleural cavity

3. Anastomoses
Molecule aided by a carrier molecule (PASSIVE)
Transverse foramena
Junctions between blood vessels serving the same organ - if blood supply is cut off from one place it is rerouted.
Epicardium

4. Lesser Saphenous vein
Water
Responsible for wakefulness
Superficial vein that starts at the lateral malleolous and dumps into the poplitial vein
Pulling fluid FROM interstitial spaces into the capillary/ highest at venule end of capillary (reabsorption)

5. Vertebral arteries form...
Perforin and lymphotoxin
Basilar artery
Response enhances stimulus
Abdominal aorta

6. Surfactant
Lumbar plexus
Coat alveolus and keep them from collapsing
Spidery middle layer of the meninges
Calcitonin

7. Intramembraneus ossification
Myosin heads/bridge gaps btw thin/thick filaments
Solar plexus
Anastomoses connecting the cephalic and basilic veins
Closing of the fontanells of babies

8. Primary Vertebral Curves
Lymphatic tissue containing T's B's and macrophages
Cavities within the brain that make cerebral spinal fluid
Medulla
Sacral & Thoracic

9. Veins
Lumbar plexus
Loose connective tissue
@ arteriol end of capillary blood colloidal osmotic pressure is higher than blood hydrostatic pressure - vice versa at the venus end
Take blood back to heart

10. Abdominal aorta splits at L4
Raises arteriol pressure & lowers heartrate
Arteries
Caps the brain
Common Illiacs

11. Rickets
Produced in Parathyroid - raises calcium blood levels
Houses the inner ear
Childhood osteomalacia
Vaccination

12. C2
Lack of blood to an area - can cause hypoxia
Produces T3 - T4 - Calcitonin
Located in the temporal bone
Axis - dens is point of rotation

13. 80% of all skin cancers
Sa node - av node - av bundle - bundle branches - conduction myofibers (Perkinje)
Basal cell carcinoma
Clusters of cells located in the thymus gland possible for cites of T-cell death
Vertebral prominence

14. Most abundant chemical element in the body
Depression in sphenoid bone that houses the pituitary
Saggital - coronal squamous - lambdoidal
Great Saphenous Vein
Carbon

15. Abcess
Left and right coronary arteries
Inward movement of water fromblood stream into interstitial fluid / highest at arteriol end of capillary (filtration)
Blood pressure
Puss filled cavity - must be drained

16. Thyroid gland
Cardiac output - volume - periferal resistance
Produces T3 - T4 - Calcitonin
Skeletal muscles
Superficial vein that starts at the lateral malleolous and dumps into the poplitial vein

17. sSpleen
Cells attack other cells
Cytoplasm inside each muscle fiber that contains mitochondria & myofibrils
Solar plexus
Held by billroths rods

18. Type B blood
Has A antiglutens
Ventricular repolarization
Located in epidermis
Atlas - no body - no pedicle - no lamina - no SP

19. Type A Blood
How T lymphocytes attack
Pulmonary veins
Has B antiglutens
Irritation of the plural cavity by build up of extra fluid

20. Pyramidal pathway
Located in Ethmoid
Pick up fat and bring back to CV system via lymphatics
Motor pathway
On palms and soles of feet

21. Gyri
Growth rings on cross section of bone
Found in sutures of the skull - saggital and lambdoidal
Folds in the brain
UV light

22. NK cells release...
Drains into Superior Vena Cava
Perforin
Transverse - internal & externals
Brain stem (cranio) & lateral horn of sacral S.C.

23. Lowest pp CO2
Alveoli
Inferior Mesenteric artery
Raises arteriol pressure & lowers heartrate
Swelling of lymphatic tissue @ L2 that brings lymph to Thoracic duct (left lymphatic duct)

24. Kinetic energy
Renals and Hepatic veins
Anchors nuchal ligament
Flexes vertebral column
Movement

25. Androgens
Connects a capillary and a venule
Drains into Superior Vena Cava
Produced by adrenals - form male/female sex characteristics
Frontal - Ethmoid - maxilla - sphenoid

26. Type AB blood
Increase surface area so more can be digested
Uses ATP by membrane
Has no antiglutens (universal recipient)
Ventricular repolarization

27. Primary lymph organs
Chest pain - lack of blood to heart
Located on alveoli - prevent them from sticking together
Has dens which articualtes with atlas
Red bone marrow & thymus

28. Intervertebral foramen
Deep pressure sensors
Moves tropomyosin aside & exposes myosin binding sites when Ca+ is released
Holes for spinal nerves to exit the vertebral column
Arteries that supply organs and have to ability to vassoconstric/dilate

29. Celiac ganglion
Solar plexus
Closing of the fontanells of babies
Anti-inflamitory produced by Adrenal Glands
Most abundant cell in epidermis

30. Synarthrosis
Osteon activity by way of calcium regulation
Thoracic vertebrae
No movement in joint (suture)
Most abundant cell in epidermis

31. T3 & T 4
Produced by thyroid - regulate metabolism
Cardiac output - volume - periferal resistance
Getting the disease and creating antibodies
Lymph nodules in ileum of sm. intestines

32. ECG "P" wave
Antibody injection
Atrial depolarization
Lumbar plexus
Accepts the weight of the body & transfers it to the foot

33. Simple diffusion
Passive process molecule moves down the concentration gradient (from highest to lowest concentration)
25
Line stomach - produce mucus & heparin
Response is opposite of stimulus

34. 75% of inhalation done by...
Diaphragm
Internal intercostals & Abs
Simple columnar epithelium
Epicardium

35. Stages of Phagocytosis
Having immunity to a disease
Chemotaxis - adhesion - ingestion - lysis - ejection
Top part of face (attached to zygomatics)
Between stomach & espohagus

36. Calcitonin
Ethmoid bone
Lowers blood calcium
Anterior and posterior tibial arteries
Red & white pulp

37. Nerve plexus that runs thru psoas/QL
Superficial vein on the ulnar side of the arm dump into the brachial vein
Ridge that goes through the EOP
NOT part of the osteon
Lumbar plexus

38. Hypothalmus
Diffusion
Sacral & Thoracic
Phrenic
Controls and regulates pituitary

39. Where vitamin D synthisis begins
Regulatory proteins that ewnable muscle finers to start or stop contracting
Released energy
In the skin
Found in sutures of the skull - saggital and lambdoidal

40. Tonsils
Pulmonary arteries
Lymphatic nodules at junction of oral cavity & pharynx
Air in pleural cavity
Medulla

41. # of facial bones
14
In osseous tissue - where nerves & blood vessels are found
No point of contact with any other bone
Superficial vein on the ulnar side of the arm dump into the brachial vein

42. Epinephrine
Deepest of Abdominal muscles
Also called adrenaline - produced by medulla of Adrenals
UV light
Water

43. Anamnestic
Sum of all chemical reactions in the body
Myosin heads
Calcium
Being immune

44. Sarcolemma
Childhood osteomalacia
Associated with stress
Cell membrane for each muscle fiber
In occiput

45. Closed reduction
Mass of repair tissue that bridges the end of a long bone
Setting a bone with a cast or splint
22
Located in sphenoid - houses the pituitary

46. Vertebral Veins
Drain into Subclavians
Fibular (peroneal) artery
Produces T3 - T4 - Calcitonin
Function of skin

47. Cranial sutures
ABCD - Asymmetry - Border - Color - Diameter
Chemotaxis - adhesion - ingestion - lysis - ejection
Lymph nodules in ileum of sm. intestines
Saggital - coronal squamous - lambdoidal

48. Meiosis
Mentalis
Reproductive cell division
Normal wakefulness
Elderly person - at ankle joint - distal tibia

49. main blood supply to the arm - commonly used to take BP
Most commom blood transfusion
In nasal cavity cause air to swirl around
Brachial Artery
Valve between ilium & cecum of lg intestines

50. Metarteriol
Mass of repair tissue that bridges the end of a long bone
Connects a capillary and a venule
Cardiac output - volume - periferal resistance
Freely moveable joint (all synovial)