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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Femur
Heaviest bone
Superficial vein that starts anterior to the medial malleolous and dumps into the femoral vein
Occipital bone
Tissues

2. Meissner corpuscle
Mentalis
Diaphragm
Raises arteriol pressure & lowers heartrate
Touch receptor in papillae

3. Tallus
Accepts the weight of the body & transfers it to the foot
Midline of neck - scm - mandible
Enhance allergic - inflamatory & immune reactions
Occipital bone

4. Supplies blood to brain
Blood in pleural cavity
Medial aspect of temporal lobe of brain
Carotid arteries
Has dens which articualtes with atlas

5. Sliding filament
Communited fracture
Associated with speech
Calcitonin
Muscles contract because the thin/thick filaments slide past eachother

6. Radiant energy
Released energy
Inward movement of water fromblood stream into interstitial fluid / highest at arteriol end of capillary (filtration)
Connect the brain & spinal cord
Located in Ethmoid

7. Location of cardiovascular center in the brain
Movement of water down the concentration gradient
Medulla
Cavities within the brain that make cerebral spinal fluid
Arteries that supply organs and have to ability to vassoconstric/dilate

8. Muscle Fibers
Contributes to oppostioi of thumb & pinki
(Adenohypophysis) produces 7 hormones
Jugular Vein
Muscle cells named for their elongated shape and multinucleated

9. External illiac artery becomes
Most moveable bone of the skull
Migrate to Thymus and mature
Femoral artery @ inguinal ligament
Branch into hepatic - gastric & splenic

10. Lamellar granules
Azygos System
Right side of arch - becomes right subclavian artery & Right Common Carotid
Anti-inflamitory produced by Adrenal Glands
Make skin water resistance

11. Superior Nuchal Line
Spongy/cancellous bone
Ridge that goes through the EOP
Simple columnar epithelium
Calcitonin

12. Carries deO2 blood from r. ventricle to the lungs
Blood hydrostatic pressure - blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Superficial vein that starts at the lateral malleolous and dumps into the poplitial vein
Internal intercostals & Abs
Pulmonary arteries

13. Iliocecal sphincter
Superficial vein on the radial side of the arm dump into the axillary vein
Serve organs - have more smooth muscle for vasodilation/constriction
Lymphatic tissue containing T's B's and macrophages
Valve between ilium & cecum of lg intestines

14. Hemothorax
Blood in pleural cavity
Inferior vena cava
14
Drains into Subclavian - posterior triangle of neck

15. Nerve to diaphragm
Between stomach & espohagus
Veins 60% of blood at any one time
Located in epidermis
Phrenic

16. Each Actin has a _____ binding site
Setting a bone with a cast or splint
Mandible
Has A antiglutens
Myosin

17. T3 & T 4
Produced by thyroid - regulate metabolism
Used in tissue transplants to determine if the body will reject the tissue
Lack of blood to an area - can cause hypoxia
Brain stem (cranio) & lateral horn of sacral S.C.

18. Calcitonin
Located in epidermis
Medulla - pons - mid brain
Lymph nodules in ileum of sm. intestines
Lowers blood calcium

19. Function of paranasal sinuses
1st stage if inflamation
Largest - short stubby transv. processes
Base of occipital bone
Lighten skull - voice production - resonate sound

20. C7
Located bleow thyroid - produces PTH
Lacrimal
Vertebral prominence
Red & white pulp

21. Shattered bone
Osteons
Drain into Subclavians
Raises arteriol pressure & lowers heartrate
Communited fracture

22. Meiosis
Reproductive cell division
Most mobile & largest
Blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Popliteal artery

23. External Occipital Protuberance
Superficial vein on the ulnar side of the arm dump into the brachial vein
Base of occipital bone
Skin - Connective Tissue - Aponeurosis - Loose connective tissue - Pericranuim
Jugular Vein

24. Oxytocin & ADH
Hormone produced by pineal gland
Hormones produced in hypothalmus & stored in (posterior) pituitary
Hepat Portal circulation
Common Illiac Arteries

25. Mental foramen location
Hepatic vein
Mandible
Relay center for all sensory information going in/out of brain
Ventricular depolarization

26. Projection fibers
Being immune
Drains into Brachiocephalic - In Anterior Triangle of neck
Connect the brain & spinal cord
Peritoneum

27. 25% of inhalation
Controls sleep cycle
Hormone produced by pineal gland
External intercostals
Irritation of the plural cavity by build up of extra fluid

28. Conduction system of the heart
UV light
Sa node - av node - av bundle - bundle branches - conduction myofibers (Perkinje)
Protects muscle & associated tendon from damage due to over stretch
Cavities within the brain that make cerebral spinal fluid

29. # of cranial bones
8
Attacks pathogens dissolved in body fluids
Midline of neck - scm - mandible
Outside of long bones

30. Secondary Vertebral curves
Cervical & Lumbar
Costal cartilage
Loose connective tissue
Cavities within the brain that make cerebral spinal fluid

31. Facilitated diffusion
Arteries that supply organs and have to ability to vassoconstric/dilate
Fluid build up in lower extremily - right side of heart death - fluid build up in lungs - left side of heart death
Puss filled cavity - must be drained
Molecule aided by a carrier molecule (PASSIVE)

32. Parasympathetic nerve to abdomin
14
Dead tissue
Ethmoid bone
Vagus 10

33. Inferior mesenteric arteries
Accepts the weight of the body & transfers it to the foot
25
Supply lower GI tract
Medial part of inside of eye

34. Type AB blood
8
Binding of myosin to actin - powerstroke - rigor - unbinding - cocking of the myosin heads
Cavities within the brain that make cerebral spinal fluid
Has no antiglutens (universal recipient)

35. Organs that have a hilus
Lymph nodes - spleen - liver
Raises blood pressure/lowers heart rate
Medial aspect of temporal lobe of brain
Cell membrane

36. Proprioreceptors
Stretch receptors
Cardiac output - volume - periferal resistance
Transverse - internal & externals
Air in pleural cavity

37. Where does interstitial fluid come from?
Blood
Pushing the molecule thru the membrane (PASSIVE)
Growth and repair cell reproduction
Diaphragm

38. Vertebral arteries form...
Released energy
Functional unit of the respiratory system
Basilar artery
Spleen - lymph nodes

39. Parts of the Sternum
Lumbar vertebrae
Manubrium - body - Xiphoid process
Setting a bone with a cast or splint
In occiput

40. Pressure resevoirs
Compress the abdomen
No point of contact with any other bone
Celiac trunk
Arteries

41. Vitamin D
Hormone of the skin
Back of hard palat of mouth
Brain stem (cranio) & lateral horn of sacral S.C.
Normal wakefulness

42. Passive natural immunity
Epicardium
Freely moveable joint (all synovial)
Vaccination
Placenta & nursing

43. Hasselmans corpuscles
Produced by thyroid gland maintains calcium homeostasis by lowering levels in blood
Sits behind the brain stem - responsible for balance
Sa node - av node - av bundle - bundle branches - conduction myofibers (Perkinje)
Clusters of cells located in the thymus gland possible for cites of T-cell death

44. Processof exchange in capillary beds
Diffusion
Ventricular depolarization
CHON - Carbon - Hydrogen - Oxygen - Nitrogen
Closing of the fontanells of babies

45. Largest mass of lymphatic tissue in body
Measure muscle length
Spleen
Inferior vena cava
Blood hydrostatic pressure

46. C1/Atlas
7 cervical vertebrae - Hyoid bone - Thyroid Cartilage - Cricoid Cartilage - Carotid Tubercle
No body - no spinous processes
Medulla - pons - mid brain
Formation of bones

47. Food reduced to it's liquid state
1st stage if inflamation
Chyme
Coat alveolus and keep them from collapsing
L & R common iliacs

48. Hypothalmus
Rest
Controls and regulates pituitary
Keystone
Interstitial fluid comes from blood plasma @ arteriol end - at venus end it returns to the blood

49. Blood resevoirs
Growth rings on cross section of bone
Ascending - hepatic flexure - transverse - splenic flexure - descending - sigmoid - rectum - anus
Veins 60% of blood at any one time
Increase surface area so more can be digested

50. Recieves impulses for smell
Fluid build up in lower extremily - right side of heart death - fluid build up in lungs - left side of heart death
Placenta & nursing
Medial aspect of temporal lobe of brain
Valve between ilium & cecum of lg intestines