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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Sural
Sum of all chemical reactions in the body
Back of leg
Has dens which articualtes with atlas
Left side of arch - splits into internal and external

2. Plurisy
Ventricular depolarization
Myosin heads
Thin filament (contractile protein)
Irritation of the plural cavity by build up of extra fluid

3. Vertebral Veins
Ability to specialize cells
Drain into Subclavians
Motor pathway
Surgical neck - where metaphasis was

4. Type O blood
Ascending - Arch - Descending
Located in the spleen - in the red pulp - remove old RBC's - store platelets - hemopoiesis in fetus
Ventricular depolarization
Has both A & B antiglutens (Universal Donor)

5. Capillaries
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Functional unit of the respiratory system
Has B antiglutens
Left side of arch - Vertebral Artery branches off of it

6. Food reduced to it's liquid state
Caps the brain
Medulla
Chyme
Inferior vena cava

7. Pleurisy
Innervates viscera - Major parasympathetic nerve in body
Inferior Mesenteric artery
Air in pleural cavity
Irritation of pleural cavity due to fluid build up

8. Paranasal sinuses
Raises blood calcium
Frontal - Ethmoid - maxilla - sphenoid
Appendix
Cheek bones

9. Pressure resevoirs
Produced by infected body cells - diffuse to non-effected cells to "interfere" with viral replication
Basal cell carcinoma
Arteries
Dead tissue

10. Mandible bone
Cells attack other cells
Only movable facial bone
Collagen
Anterior and posterior tibial arteries

11. Ventricles
Accepts the weight of the body & transfers it to the foot
For blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Irritation of the plural cavity by build up of extra fluid
Cavities within the brain that make cerebral spinal fluid

12. Celiac ganglion
Muscle cells named for their elongated shape and multinucleated
Covers myosin binding sites on the actin molecules
Solar plexus
Getting the disease and creating antibodies

13. At the venous end of capillaries which force predominates
Osteons
Smooth muscle (cannot vasoconstrict)
Transverse - internal & externals
Blood colloidal osmotic pressure

14. Atp attached to
Ethmoid bone
Frontal - Ethmoid - Maxillary - Sphenoid
Hormones produced in hypothalmus & stored in (posterior) pituitary
Myosin heads

15. Lumbar vertebrae
Some movement in a joint
Sacral & Thoracic
Celiac trunk
Largest - short stubby transv. processes

16. Hydroxyapartites
Blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Loose connective tissue
Crystals in bone
Increase surface area so more can be digested

17. Jugular foramen
Carbon
Stored energy
Located in the temporal bone
Attacks pathogens dissolved in body fluids

18. Signs of skin cancer
Frontal - Ethmoid - maxilla - sphenoid
Vertebral prominence
ABCD - Asymmetry - Border - Color - Diameter
Formation of bones

19. Superior Nuchal Line
Innervates diaphram
Contraction of muscle & respiratory pump
Ridge that goes through the EOP
Myosin

20. C1/Atlas
Solar plexus
Arteries
No body - no spinous processes
Gluteus medius

21. Sympathetic neurons come from...
Red & white pulp
Drains into Brachiocephalic - In Anterior Triangle of neck
Lateral horn of thoracic & Lumbar S.C.
Cavities within the brain that make cerebral spinal fluid

22. Calcitonin
Moves tropomyosin aside & exposes myosin binding sites when Ca+ is released
Innervates viscera - Major parasympathetic nerve in body
Produced by thyroid gland maintains calcium homeostasis by lowering levels in blood
Supply upper digestive track

23. Haversian canals
In osseous tissue - where nerves & blood vessels are found
Blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Response enhances stimulus
Anterior grey horn of S.C.

24. Greater Saphenous vein
Smooth muscle (cannot vasoconstrict)
Delicate vascular inner layer of the meninges - indirect contact with the brain
Pressure - flow - valves - muscle pump - respiratory pump
Superficial vein that starts anterior to the medial malleolous and dumps into the femoral vein

25. Sub-dural space
Medulla
CHON - Carbon - Hydrogen - Oxygen - Nitrogen
Located in sphenoid - houses the pituitary
Between dura mater and arachnoid layers - houses interstitial fluid

26. Endocrine
Perforin
Found in sutures of the skull - saggital and lambdoidal
Liver
Function of skin

27. Open reduction
Blood pressure
Setting a bone with surgury
Irritation of the plural cavity by build up of extra fluid
Ethmoid bone

28. Infarction
Death of tissue caused by blood blockage
Azygos System
Arteries
Located within and around joints for protection from pressure/ excess acceloration and deceloration

29. Femoral artery becomes
Surgical neck - where metaphasis was
Lowers blood calcium
Take blood back to heart
Popliteal artery

30. Beta brain waves
Kidneys and pancreas
Located on alveoli - prevent them from sticking together
Normal wakefulness
Medulla

31. Rickets
Make surfactant in alveolus
Produced by thyroid - regulate metabolism
Migrate to Thymus and mature
Childhood osteomalacia

32. Epinephrine
Also called adrenaline - produced by medulla of Adrenals
Keystone
Sacral & Thoracic
Blood osmotic pressure - blood hydrostatic pressure

33. Each Actin has a _____ binding site
Myosin
Compress the abdomen
Some movement in a joint
Movement of water down the concentration gradient

34. Blood resevoirs
Portal vein
Chemotaxis - adhesion - ingestion - lysis - ejection
Veins
Hasselmans corpuscles

35. Delta waves
Most commom blood transfusion
Deep sleep
Cheek bones
Frontal - temporal - parietal - occipital

36. Calcitonin & PTH effect
Osteon activity by way of calcium regulation
Epiphysis
Accepts the weight of the body & transfers it to the foot
Movement of water down the concentration gradient

37. Left Common Carotid artery
Has both A & B antiglutens (Universal Donor)
Blood diverted to the liver from the digestive tract
Left side of arch - splits into internal and external
Dorsal and plantar arteries of the foot

38. Lesser Saphenous vein
Superficial vein that starts at the lateral malleolous and dumps into the poplitial vein
Has both A & B antiglutens (Universal Donor)
Renal Artery
Depression in sphenoid bone that houses the pituitary

39. Intramembraneus ossification
Closing of the fontanells of babies
Simple columnar epithelium
Epiphysis
Alveoli

40. Organs that have a hilus
Valve between ilium & cecum of lg intestines
Lymph nodes - lungs - spleen
Compact bone
Vomer & mandible

41. Brachiocephalic Vein
Brachial Artery
Drains into Brachiocephalic - In Anterior Triangle of neck
Drains into Superior Vena Cava
Inferior vena cava

42. Vein from Stomach to Liver
Superficial vein that starts at the lateral malleolous and dumps into the poplitial vein
Blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Renal Artery
Portal vein

43. Shaft of bone
Contraction of muscle & respiratory pump
Associated with stress
Outer layer of the meninges
Compact bone

44. Amphiarthrosis
Appendix
Function of skin
Blood pressure
Some movement in a joint

45. Cortex of Adrenals
Mass of repair tissue that bridges the end of a long bone
In small intestines expands surface area to increase absorption of nutrients
Produce Glucocorticoids - cortisol - mineralcorticoids - aldosterone - androgens
Calcium

46. Metarteriol
Vaccination
Connects a capillary and a venule
Superior Mesenteric Vein
Ureter

47. Lower esophageal sphincter
Between stomach & espohagus
Medulla
Basal cell carcinoma
Inferior Mesenteric artery

48. Mitosis
Midline of neck - scm - mandible
Growth and repair cell reproduction
Chyme
Molecule aided by a carrier molecule (PASSIVE)

49. Motor neurons come from...
Each gas exerts a partial pressure contributing to the total pressure of the air
Frontal - Ethmoid - Maxillary - Sphenoid
Anterior grey horn of S.C.
Presence of thymine in DNA not RNA

50. Pneumothorax
Used in tissue transplants to determine if the body will reject the tissue
Air in pleural cavity
No body - no spinous processes
Raises blood pressure/lowers heart rate