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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Vertebral arteries form...
Left side of arch - Vertebral Artery branches off of it
Basilar artery
Binding of myosin to actin - powerstroke - rigor - unbinding - cocking of the myosin heads
Pulling fluid FROM interstitial spaces into the capillary/ highest at venule end of capillary (reabsorption)

2. Conduction system of the heart
Sa node - av node - av bundle - bundle branches - conduction myofibers (Perkinje)
Associated with speech
Appendix
Calcitonin

3. Drains most of the thorax - used as a bypass to the Inferior Vena Cava
Ventricular repolarization
Response is opposite of stimulus
Azygos System
14

4. Billroth's Rods

5. osteon/Haversian system
UV light
Arangement of compact bone
Tissues
Lymphatic tissue containing T's B's and macrophages

6. Tropomyosin
Ridge that goes through the EOP
Bundle of overlapping thick & thin filaments
Covers myosin binding sites on the actin molecules
Arteries

7. Mitosis
Raises arteriol pressure & lowers heartrate
Blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Growth and repair cell reproduction
Hormone of the skin

8. Mandible bone
Antibody injection
Medulla
Diffusion
Only movable facial bone

9. Arachnoid
Spidery middle layer of the meninges
Atlas - no body - no pedicle - no lamina - no SP
No body - no spinous processes
Ability to specialize cells

10. C7
Back of leg
Produces T3 - T4 - Calcitonin
Anchors nuchal ligament
Rectus sheath

11. # of cranial bones
Blood in pleural cavity
Alveoli
8
Frontal - Ethmoid - maxilla - sphenoid

12. Rickets
Blood in pleural cavity
Childhood osteomalacia
Pulling fluid FROM interstitial spaces into the capillary/ highest at venule end of capillary (reabsorption)
Drains into Brachiocephalic

13. Merkel cells
Touch receptors
Ascending - Arch - Descending
Branch into hepatic - gastric & splenic
From placenta/nursing (immunity given by someone else)

14. Neurohypophysis
Flexes vertebral column
Capillaries
Posterior pituitary stores Oxytocin & ADH
Skin - Connective Tissue - Aponeurosis - Loose connective tissue - Pericranuim

15. Order of colon
Makes up tendons
Holes for spinal nerves to exit the vertebral column
Ascending - hepatic flexure - transverse - splenic flexure - descending - sigmoid - rectum - anus
Appendix

16. Vertebral Arteries
Arise off of Subclavians - within Transverse processes of cervicals - brings blood to brain
All other bones of the skull (keystone)
Touch receptor in papillae
Death of tissue caused by blood blockage

17. No lymph capillaries
Setting a bone with surgury
Holes in T.P's - bifurcated S.P.'s
Avascular tissue - CNS - red bone marrow & spleen
Arangement of compact bone

18. Villi
Renals and Hepatic veins
Makes up tendons
In small intestines expands surface area to increase absorption of nutrients
Produced by thyroid gland maintains calcium homeostasis by lowering levels in blood

19. Blood hydrostatic pressure
Inward movement of water fromblood stream into interstitial fluid / highest at arteriol end of capillary (filtration)
Main collecting duct for lymphatic system
Solar plexus
Growth rings on cross section of bone

20. Closed reduction
Stretch receptors
Regulatory proteins that ewnable muscle finers to start or stop contracting
Setting a bone with a cast or splint
Water

21. main blood supply to the arm - commonly used to take BP
Diffusion
Fluid build up in lower extremily - right side of heart death - fluid build up in lungs - left side of heart death
Renals and Hepatic veins
Brachial Artery

22. Dense connective tissue
Drains into Subclavian - posterior triangle of neck
Pyloric sphincter
Makes up tendons
Hormones produced in hypothalmus & stored in (posterior) pituitary

23. Vitamin D
Outer layer of the meninges
Osteon activity by way of calcium regulation
Fluid build up in lower extremily - right side of heart death - fluid build up in lungs - left side of heart death
Hormone of the skin

24. Thenar eminence
Solar plexus
Contributes to oppostioi of thumb & pinki
Having immunity to a disease
Interstitial fluid comes from blood plasma @ arteriol end - at venus end it returns to the blood

25. # of cranial bones
8
Epiphysis
Superficial vein that starts at the lateral malleolous and dumps into the poplitial vein
Medulla - pons - mid brain

26. Androgens
Most abundant cell in epidermis
Produced by adrenals - form male/female sex characteristics
Diffusion
Associated with stress

27. Arteries off the ascending aorta
Accepts the weight of the body & transfers it to the foot
In small intestines expands surface area to increase absorption of nutrients
Left and right coronary arteries
8

28. Vein from Stomach to Liver
Deepest of Abdominal muscles
Portal vein
Appendix
Medulla

29. Cortex of Adrenals
Blood osmotic pressure - blood hydrostatic pressure
Internal intercostals & Abs
Migrate to Thymus and mature
Produce Glucocorticoids - cortisol - mineralcorticoids - aldosterone - androgens

30. periostial blood vessels
Located in sphenoid - houses the pituitary
Blood hydrostatic pressure - blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Outside of long bones
Spidery middle layer of the meninges

31. 75% of inhale breathing done by...
Diaphragm
Irritation of pleural cavity due to fluid build up
Paravertebral ganglions
Stored energy

32. Zone of secondary ossification
Epiphysis
Located on alveoli - prevent them from sticking together
Ethmoid bone
Atlas - no body - no pedicle - no lamina - no SP

33. Strongest - largest vertebrae
Valve between ilium & cecum of lg intestines
Lumbar vertebrae
Ventricular repolarization
Irritation of pleural cavity due to fluid build up

34. Packed Cell transfusion
Most commom blood transfusion
Abdominal aorta
NOT part of the osteon
Irritation of pleural cavity due to fluid build up

35. T-lymphocites use
Alveoli
Perforin and lymphotoxin
Normal wakefulness
Touch receptors

36. Celiac ganglion
Measure muscle length
Ability to respond to stimuli
Red & white pulp
Solar plexus

37. Perpendicular plate & vomer
Blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Inferior Mesenteric artery
Coat alveolus and keep them from collapsing
Make up the nasal septum

38. 5 factors that push blood in veins back to heart
Renals and Hepatic veins
Lymph nodes - spleen - liver
Between stomach & espohagus
Pressure - flow - valves - muscle pump - respiratory pump

39. Fastest flow of blood
Produced in Parathyroid - raises calcium blood levels
Arteries
Alveoli
Phrenic

40. Primary Vertebral Curves
Connect the brain & spinal cord
Sits behind the brain stem - responsible for balance
Pick up fat and bring back to CV system via lymphatics
Sacral & Thoracic

41. Parasympathetics
Growth rings on cross section of bone
Thin filament (contractile protein)
Lowest pp CO2
Prevertebral ganglions

42. Lowest pp CO2
Blood in pleural cavity
Alveoli
7 cervical vertebrae - Hyoid bone - Thyroid Cartilage - Cricoid Cartilage - Carotid Tubercle
Stretch receptors

43. Golgi tendon organ
Pushing the molecule thru the membrane (PASSIVE)
Protects against muscle/tendon tears
Fluid build up in lower extremily - right side of heart death - fluid build up in lungs - left side of heart death
Common Illiacs

44. Epinephrine
Frontal - Ethmoid - Maxillary - Sphenoid
Dead tissue
Also called adrenaline - produced by medulla of Adrenals
Celiac trunk

45. Sliding filament
Muscles contract because the thin/thick filaments slide past eachother
Chemotaxis - adhesion - ingestion - lysis - ejection
Secum - ascending colon - hepatic flexor - transverse colon - splenic flexor - descending colon - sigmoid colon - rectum
Has dens which articualtes with atlas

46. Femoral artery becomes
Popliteal artery
Posterior pituitary stores Oxytocin & ADH
Ureter
Ridge that goes through the EOP

47. Maxilla bones
Depression in sphenoid bone that houses the pituitary
Frontal - temporal - parietal - occipital
Top part of face (attached to zygomatics)
Make surfactant in alveolus

48. Sub-dural space
Suprarenal Glands
Located in medial temporal lobe - responsible for long term memory - part of Limbic system
Ascending - Arch - Descending
Between dura mater and arachnoid layers - houses interstitial fluid

49. T lymphocytes
Liver
Simple columnar epithelium
Touch receptor in papillae
Migrate to Thymus and mature

50. Perforating canal - circumferentral lamelli - interstitial lamelli
Pick up fat and bring back to CV system via lymphatics
For blood colloidal osmotic pressure
NOT part of the osteon
Ascending - hepatic flexure - transverse - splenic flexure - descending - sigmoid - rectum - anus