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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Villi
In small intestines expands surface area to increase absorption of nutrients
Anchors nuchal ligament
Lymph nodes - spleen - liver
Located in the temporal bone

2. Activation energy
22
Vena Cava & pulmonary veins
Amount of energy required to stick 2 molecules together
Chemotaxis - adhesion - ingestion - lysis - ejection

3. Potential Energy
Clusters of cells located in the thymus gland possible for cites of T-cell death
Originate on axial skeleton
Stored energy
Bundle of overlapping thick & thin filaments

4. Superior mesenteric arteries
Moves tropomyosin aside & exposes myosin binding sites when Ca+ is released
Touch receptors
Supply upper digestive track
Raises arteriol pressure & lowers heartrate

5. Pyloric sphincter
Accepts the weight of the body & transfers it to the foot
Heaviest bone
Branch into hepatic - gastric & splenic
Valve between stomach & duodenum

6. Abdominal massage
Ureter
Raises arteriol pressure & lowers heartrate
NOT part of the osteon
Diffusion

7. Jugular foramen
Medulla
Spongy/cancellous bone
Left side of arch - splits into internal and external
Located in the temporal bone

8. ECG "P" wave
Manubrium - body - Xiphoid process
(Adenohypophysis) produces 7 hormones
Lowest pp CO2
Atrial depolarization

9. Anastomoses
Junctions between blood vessels serving the same organ - if blood supply is cut off from one place it is rerouted.
Secum - ascending colon - hepatic flexor - transverse colon - splenic flexor - descending colon - sigmoid colon - rectum
Formed by 2 lamina coming together
Manubrium - body - Xiphoid process

10. Joint kinesthetic receptor
Epiphysis
Branched off of Brachiocephalic - splits into internal & external
Lowers blood calcium
Located within and around joints for protection from pressure/ excess acceloration and deceloration

11. Hepatic Portal Vein
Vomer & mandible
Separates cerebrum & cerebellum & contains tentorium cerebelli
Cells attack other cells
Blood diverted to the liver from the digestive tract

12. Cranial bones
Frontal - parietal - temporal occipital - ethmoid - sphenoid
8
Chest pain - lack of blood to heart
Supply upper digestive track

13. Inorganic substance that makes bone hard
Calcium
Posterior pituitary stores Oxytocin & ADH
Produced by thyroid gland maintains calcium homeostasis by lowering levels in blood
Place on molecule where they attach to one another or something else

14. Net filtration
Air in pleural cavity
Having immunity to a disease
Thalmus - hypothalmus & pituitary
Blood hydrostatic pressure - blood colloidal osmotic pressure

15. Dalton's law of partial pressure
Pyloric sphincter
Renal Artery
Amount of energy required to stick 2 molecules together
Each gas exerts a partial pressure contributing to the total pressure of the air

16. Pineal Gland
Having immunity to a disease
Frontal - parietal - temporal occipital - ethmoid - sphenoid
Controls sleep cycle
Innervates viscera - Major parasympathetic nerve in body

17. Bony landmarks of anterior neck
7 cervical vertebrae - Hyoid bone - Thyroid Cartilage - Cricoid Cartilage - Carotid Tubercle
Having immunity to a disease
Anchors nuchal ligament
Motor pathway

18. Long contraction of the heart =
Arteries
Myosin
Epicardium
Longer refractory peroid

19. Fasicle
Depression in sphenoid bone that houses the pituitary
Bundle of individual muscle fibers (cells)
Ethmoid bone
Sa node - av node - av bundle - bundle branches - conduction myofibers (Perkinje)

20. Mitosis
Growth and repair cell reproduction
Hormone of the skin
Blood
Antibody injection

21. Optical Foramen
Located in Sphenoid
Drain into Subclavians
Blood hydrostatic pressure - blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Removes RBC - WBC - stores platelets

22. Passive natural immunity
Each gas exerts it's own partial pressure that contributes to the total pressure of the gas
Placenta & nursing
Normal wakefulness
Function of skin

23. Pressure resevoirs
Arteries
A section of each myofibril that is bordered on either side by z lines
Irritation of pleural cavity due to fluid build up
Femoral artery @ inguinal ligament

24. Phospholipid bilayer
Cell membrane
Avascular tissue - CNS - red bone marrow & spleen
Intracellular fluid
8

25. Sacrum
Common illiac arteries
Irritation of the plural cavity by build up of extra fluid
Keystone
Arteries

26. Responsiveness
Ability to respond to stimuli
Functional unit of the respiratory system
Occurs in forearm/ at distal radius
Myosin

27. # of facial bones
Drains into Superior Vena Cava
14
7 cervical vertebrae - Hyoid bone - Thyroid Cartilage - Cricoid Cartilage - Carotid Tubercle
Mandible

28. Sympathetic chain
Located bleow thyroid - produces PTH
Stretch receptors
Pulling fluid FROM interstitial spaces into the capillary/ highest at venule end of capillary (reabsorption)
Paravertebral ganglions

29. Intramembraneus ossification
Associated with stress
Closing of the fontanells of babies
Released energy
Cavities within the brain that make cerebral spinal fluid

30. Stages of Phagocytosis
Chemotaxis - adhesion - ingestion - lysis - ejection
Basal cell carcinoma
Has dens which articualtes with atlas
Enhance allergic - inflamatory & immune reactions

31. Connects stomach & small intestine (duodenum)
Rest
Pyloric sphincter
Freely moveable joint (all synovial)
Presence of thymine in DNA not RNA

32. Amydgala
NOT part of the osteon
Freely moveable joint (all synovial)
Surgical neck - where metaphasis was
Almond shaped group of neurons in temporal lobe responsible for memory & emotional reaction

33. Mandible
Most abundant cell in epidermis
Lowers blood calcium
Most moveable bone of the skull
Largest - short stubby transv. processes

34. Angina
Chest pain - lack of blood to heart
Transverse foramena
Attacks pathogens dissolved in body fluids
In small intestines expands surface area to increase absorption of nutrients

35. Antigen mediated immunity
Red & white pulp
Attacks pathogens dissolved in body fluids
Midline of neck - scm - mandible
Peritoneum

36. Crossbridges
Myosin heads/bridge gaps btw thin/thick filaments
Removes RBC - WBC - stores platelets
Pubic bone
Deep sleep

37. Dense connective tissue
Makes up tendons
Setting a bone with surgury
Produced by thyroid - regulate metabolism
Lumbar plexus

38. Factors that effect blood pressure
Capillaries to allow for gas and nutrient exchange
Mandible
Cardiac output - volume - periferal resistance
UV light

39. Oxytocin & ADH
Normal wakefulness
Abdominal aorta
Brachial Artery
Hormones produced in hypothalmus & stored in (posterior) pituitary

40. Action of all abdominals
Compress the abdomen
Movement of water down the concentration gradient
Between stomach & espohagus
Valve between ilium & cecum of lg intestines

41. Jugular Vein (internal)
Drains into Brachiocephalic - In Anterior Triangle of neck
Superficial vein that starts anterior to the medial malleolous and dumps into the femoral vein
Internal intercostals & Abs
Drains into Brachiocephalic

42. Necrosis
Diffusion
Accepts the weight of the body & transfers it to the foot
Appendix
Dead tissue

43. Thoracic duct drains into...
Left subclavian vein
Almond shaped group of neurons in temporal lobe responsible for memory & emotional reaction
Rest
Ventricular depolarization

44. Myosin
Blood osmotic pressure - blood hydrostatic pressure
Left side of arch - Vertebral Artery branches off of it
Basal cell carcinoma
Thick filament (contractile protein)

45. Organ that stores bile
Located on alveoli - prevent them from sticking together
Smooth muscle (cannot vasoconstrict)
Gallbladder
(Adenohypophysis) produces 7 hormones

46. Beyond the diaphragm aorta is called...
Abdominal aorta
Response is opposite of stimulus
Chemotaxis - adhesion - ingestion - lysis - ejection
Phrenic

47. 3 parts of small intestine
Located on alveoli - prevent them from sticking together
ABCD - Asymmetry - Border - Color - Diameter
Pulling fluid FROM interstitial spaces into the capillary/ highest at venule end of capillary (reabsorption)
Duodenum - jejunum - ilium

48. 75% of inhale breathing done by...
Diaphragm
Longer refractory peroid
Between dura mater and arachnoid layers - houses interstitial fluid
Some movement in a joint

49. Femoral artery becomes
Raises blood pressure/lowers heart rate
Sa node - av node - av bundle - bundle branches - conduction myofibers (Perkinje)
Popliteal artery
Midline of neck - scm - mandible

50. veins that have no valves
Blood diverted to the liver from the digestive tract
Brain stem (cranio) & lateral horn of sacral S.C.
Produced in Parathyroid - raises calcium blood levels
Vena Cava & pulmonary veins