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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Myosin
Thick filament (contractile protein)
Anterior and posterior tibial arteries
Most abundant cell in epidermis
Thin filament (contractile protein)

2. Jugular Vein (external)
Drains into Subclavian - posterior triangle of neck
Alveoli
Main collecting duct for lymphatic system
Cardiac output - volume - periferal resistance

3. Actin
Diaphragm
Thin filament (contractile protein)
Inward movement of water fromblood stream into interstitial fluid / highest at arteriol end of capillary (filtration)
Secum - ascending colon - hepatic flexor - transverse colon - splenic flexor - descending colon - sigmoid colon - rectum

4. Lowest pp O2 is in...
Tissues
Surrounds each myofibril & stores & releases Ca+ when muscle cell is stimulated to contract
Scoliosis
Occipital bone

5. Passive natural immunity
Placenta & nursing
Movement
Pick up dietary fats and transport them to cysterna chyle
Brain stem (cranio) & lateral horn of sacral S.C.

6. Transverse fissure
Separates cerebrum & cerebellum & contains tentorium cerebelli
Attaches to corners of mouth
Connects pituitary & Hypothalmus
Kidneys and pancreas

7. Intestinal mucosa made up of
Simple columnar epithelium
Blood
Transverse - internal & externals
Root of nose (top bridge)

8. Secondary lymph organs
Line stomach - produce mucus & heparin
Held by billroths rods
Celiac trunk
Spleen - lymph nodes

9. T-lymphocites use
Celiac artery
Secum - ascending colon - hepatic flexor - transverse colon - splenic flexor - descending colon - sigmoid colon - rectum
Perforin and lymphotoxin
Holes for spinal nerves to exit the vertebral column

10. 2 control systems of the body
A section of each myofibril that is bordered on either side by z lines
Uses ATP by membrane
Nervous and endocrine
Fluid build up in lower extremily - right side of heart death - fluid build up in lungs - left side of heart death

11. Highest pp of CO2 is in...
Crystals in bone
Intracellular fluid
Perforin
Valve between ilium & cecum of lg intestines

12. Organ that stores bile
Measure muscle length
Occipital bone
Spleen - lymph nodes
Gallbladder

13. Connects stomach & small intestine (duodenum)
Pyloric sphincter
Pulmonary veins
Junctions btw blood vessels serving the same organ
Make up the nasal septum

14. Blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Attraction of water to blood
Only movable facial bone
Tissues
Lowers blood calcium

15. Thoracic duct
Main collecting duct for lymphatic system
Blood hydrostatic pressure
Medulla
Enhance allergic - inflamatory & immune reactions

16. Passive artificial immunity
Antibody injection
Loose connective tissue
Left subclavian vein
Released energy

17. Secondary Vertebral curves
Growth and repair cell reproduction
Chyme
Facets for ribs - long sharp Spinous processes
Cervical & Lumbar

18. Endocrine
Function of skin
Ureter
Mandible
Anti-inflamitory produced by Adrenal Glands

19. Activation energy
Espohagus
Amount of energy required to stick 2 molecules together
14
Skin - Connective Tissue - Aponeurosis - Loose connective tissue - Pericranuim

20. Calcitonin
Perforin and lymphotoxin
Mandible
Produced by thyroid gland maintains calcium homeostasis by lowering levels in blood
Located in medial temporal lobe - responsible for long term memory - part of Limbic system

21. Brachiocephalic Artery
Released energy
Right side of arch - becomes right subclavian artery & Right Common Carotid
Makes up lower part of nasal septum
Pulmonary veins

22. Most abundant chemical element in the body
Basal cell carcinoma
Carbon
Setting a bone with a cast or splint
Kidneys and pancreas

23. Type A Blood
Pulmonary veins
Vertebral prominence
Has B antiglutens
Frontal - Ethmoid - maxilla - sphenoid

24. Phospholipid bilayer
Cell membrane
Secum - ascending colon - hepatic flexor - transverse colon - splenic flexor - descending colon - sigmoid colon - rectum
Attaches to corners of mouth
Manubrium - body - Xiphoid process

25. Part of the venous circulation of the leg - used in bypass surgury
Drains into Superior Vena Cava
Heaviest bone
Great Saphenous Vein
Depression in sphenoid bone that houses the pituitary

26. Sarcolemma
Ventricular depolarization
Immature cell
Each gas exerts a partial pressure contributing to the total pressure of the air
Cell membrane for each muscle fiber

27. Net filtration
Compact bone
Arteries
Drains into Superior Vena Cava
Blood hydrostatic pressure - blood colloidal osmotic pressure

28. Vagus Nerve CN X
Air in pleural cavity
Located in sphenoid - houses the pituitary
Innervates viscera - Major parasympathetic nerve in body
Transverse foramena

29. Anamestic
Sits behind the brain stem - responsible for balance
Lymphatic tissue containing T's B's and macrophages
Calcitonin
Having immunity to a disease

30. PTH
Raises blood calcium
Produces T3 - T4 - Calcitonin
Renals and Hepatic veins
Deepest of Abdominal muscles

31. Artificial active immunity
Left and right coronary arteries
Vaccination
Formed by 2 lamina coming together
Avascular tissues - CNS - Red bone marrow or spleen

32. Plurisy
Irritation of the plural cavity by build up of extra fluid
Diffusion
Produced by adrenals - hold sodium & prevent dehydration
Transverse - internal & externals

33. Delta waves
Deep sleep
Air in pleural cavity
Myosin
Anchors nuchal ligament

34. Hippocampus
Located in medial temporal lobe - responsible for long term memory - part of Limbic system
Red bone marrow & thymus
Blood in pleural cavity
Hepatic vein

35. Metabolism
Covers myosin binding sites on the actin molecules
Setting a bone with surgury
Sum of all chemical reactions in the body
Irritation of the plural cavity by build up of extra fluid

36. All ribs articulate with...
Jugular Vein
Lymph nodes - lungs - spleen
Costal cartilage
Duodenum - jejunum - ilium

37. sub-arachnoid space
Diaphragm
Touch receptor in papillae
Between arachnoid layer & pia mater - houses cerebral spinal fluid
Tissues

38. Cortisol
Anti-inflamitory produced by Adrenal Glands
Perforin
Death of tissue caused by blood blockage
Controls and regulates pituitary

39. Artificial active immunity
Clusters of cells located in the thymus gland possible for cites of T-cell death
Myosin heads
Abdominal aorta
Vaccination

40. Perpendicular plate & vomer
Being immune
Hormone of the skin
Make up the nasal septum
Separates cerebrum & cerebellum & contains tentorium cerebelli

41. Thymus Gland
Dead tissue
Ability to respond to stimuli
Located above heart - atrophies after puberty - assists in maturation of T cells
Located in the temporal bone

42. Food reduced to it's liquid state
Chyme
Diaphragm
Chemotaxis - adhesion - ingestion - lysis - ejection
Place on molecule where they attach to one another or something else

43. Positive feedback system
Frontal - parietal - temporal occipital - ethmoid - sphenoid
Only movable facial bone
Response enhances stimulus
Cytoplasm inside each muscle fiber that contains mitochondria & myofibrils

44. Spinous processes
Formed by 2 lamina coming together
Sacral & Thoracic
Touch receptors
Line stomach - produce mucus & heparin

45. External Occipital Protuberance
Occurs in forearm/ at distal radius
Base of occipital bone
Alveoli
Epicardium

46. Starling's law of the capillaries
Keystone
Found in sutures of the skull - saggital and lambdoidal
@ arteriol end of capillary blood colloidal osmotic pressure is higher than blood hydrostatic pressure - vice versa at the venus end
Produced by thyroid - regulate metabolism

47. Ventilation is not...
Anastomoses connecting the cephalic and basilic veins
Hormone of the skin
Diffusion
Right side of arch - becomes right subclavian artery & Right Common Carotid

48. Nerve to diaphragm
Epiphysis
Controls sleep cycle
Spongy/cancellous bone
Phrenic

49. # of cranial bones
8
Left side of arch - Vertebral Artery branches off of it
Arteries
Frontal - parietal - temporal occipital - ethmoid - sphenoid

50. Vitamin D
Axis - dens is point of rotation
Hormone of the skin
Costal cartilage
Lateral horn of thoracic & Lumbar S.C.