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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Organic substance that makes bone flexible
Ventricular repolarization
Drains into Brachiocephalic
Response enhances stimulus
Collagen

2. Muscle Fibers
NOT part of the osteon
Muscle cells named for their elongated shape and multinucleated
Take blood back to heart
Antibody injection

3. Action of all abdominals
Thalmus - hypothalmus & pituitary
Make surfactant in alveolus
Compress the abdomen
Hepat Portal circulation

4. Sural
Water
Between arachnoid layer & pia mater - houses cerebral spinal fluid
Medulla
Back of leg

5. Subclavian Vein
Dorsal and plantar arteries of the foot
Drains into Brachiocephalic
Vagus 10
Clusters of cells located in the thymus gland possible for cites of T-cell death

6. Takes food to the tummy
Produced by thyroid gland maintains calcium homeostasis by lowering levels in blood
Valve between stomach & duodenum
Take blood back to heart
Espohagus

7. Lumbar vertebrae
Anchors nuchal ligament
Intracellular fluid
Largest - short stubby transv. processes
Root of nose (top bridge)

8. Tonsils
Nervous and endocrine
1st stage if inflamation
Function of skin
Lymphatic nodules at junction of oral cavity & pharynx

9. Gyri
Hepat Portal circulation
L & R common iliacs
Folds in the brain
Frontal - Ethmoid - maxilla - sphenoid

10. Phospholipid tails point...
Toward eachother
Blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Supply upper digestive track
Connects pituitary & Hypothalmus

11. Negative feedback system
No movement in joint (suture)
Medial part of inside of eye
Deep sleep
Response is opposite of stimulus

12. Dense connective tissue
ABCD - Asymmetry - Border - Color - Diameter
Makes up tendons
Myosin
Spleen

13. Supplies blood to Lg. intestines
Inferior Mesenteric artery
Veins 60% of blood at any one time
Frontal - temporal - parietal - occipital
Superior Mesenteric Vein

14. Parts of large intestine
Sa node - av node - av bundle - bundle branches - conduction myofibers (Perkinje)
Separates cerebrum & cerebellum & contains tentorium cerebelli
Cardiac muscle fibers will contract more forcefully when fibers are stretched (the more you fill it with blood the better force of contraction)
Secum - ascending colon - hepatic flexor - transverse colon - splenic flexor - descending colon - sigmoid colon - rectum

15. Lowest pp CO2
Held by billroths rods
Normal wakefulness
Appendix
Alveoli

16. Ossification completes by age
25
Movement of water down the concentration gradient
Thalmus - hypothalmus & pituitary
Protects muscle & associated tendon from damage due to over stretch

17. Maxilla bones
Superior Mesenteric Vein
Top part of face (attached to zygomatics)
Left subclavian vein
Avascular tissue - CNS - red bone marrow & spleen

18. Diencephalon
Large hole at the base of occipital bone
Ability to specialize cells
Thalmus - hypothalmus & pituitary
Blood diverted to the liver from the digestive tract

19. Thoracic duct drains into...
Bundle of overlapping thick & thin filaments
Back of hard palat of mouth
Left subclavian vein
Appendix

20. Theta waves
Blood in pleural cavity
Skeletal muscles
Posterior pituitary stores Oxytocin & ADH
Associated with stress

21. Celiac ganglion
From placenta/nursing (immunity given by someone else)
Solar plexus
Epiphysis
Hole for spinal cord

22. Endochondral ossification
Skin - Connective Tissue - Aponeurosis - Loose connective tissue - Pericranuim
Placenta & nursing
Movement
Formation of bones

23. Lacrimal bones
Frontal - Ethmoid - Maxillary - Sphenoid
Atrial depolarization
Produced by thyroid - regulate metabolism
Medial part of inside of eye

24. Positive feedback system
Between dura mater and arachnoid layers - houses interstitial fluid
Communited fracture
Response enhances stimulus
Nervous and endocrine

25. Vertebral arteries form...
Basilar artery
SCM - Trapezius - Clavicle
Innervates diaphram
Midline of neck - scm - mandible

26. Risorius
Large hole at the base of occipital bone
Avascular tissue - CNS - red bone marrow & spleen
Solar plexus
Attaches to corners of mouth

27. Sphenoid articulates with...
Each gas exerts a partial pressure contributing to the total pressure of the air
All other bones of the skull (keystone)
Arteries
When you get the disease and create antibodies against it

28. Osmosis
Cytoplasm inside each muscle fiber that contains mitochondria & myofibrils
Movement of water down the concentration gradient
14
Most abundant cell in epidermis

29. Villi in small intestines
Attraction of water to blood
Increase surface area so more can be digested
Epiphysis
Raises arteriol pressure & lowers heartrate

30. Thyroid gland
Lowest pp CO2
Produces T3 - T4 - Calcitonin
From placenta/nursing (immunity given by someone else)
Ethmoid bone

31. Synarthrosis
No movement in joint (suture)
Secum - ascending colon - hepatic flexor - transverse colon - splenic flexor - descending colon - sigmoid colon - rectum
Drains into Brachiocephalic - In Anterior Triangle of neck
Vaccination

32. 25% of inhalation
External intercostals
Tissues
Appendix
Cell membrane

33. # of cranial bones
8
Produces T3 - T4 - Calcitonin
Produced by thyroid - regulate metabolism
Make up the nasal septum

34. Calcitonin
L & R common iliacs
Epiphysis
Most mobile & largest
Lowers blood calcium

35. Slowest flow of blood
Right side of arch - becomes right subclavian artery & Right Common Carotid
Paravertebral ganglions
Capillaries
Produced by infected body cells - diffuse to non-effected cells to "interfere" with viral replication

36. Smallest facial bone
Valve between ilium & cecum of lg intestines
Pick up fat and bring back to CV system via lymphatics
Lacrimal
Costal cartilage

37. Metarteriole
Holes in T.P's - bifurcated S.P.'s
Connects arteriole/venule to a capillary
Occipital bone
Branch into hepatic - gastric & splenic

38. Starling's law of the capillaries
Largest - short stubby transv. processes
@ arteriol end of capillary blood colloidal osmotic pressure is higher than blood hydrostatic pressure - vice versa at the venus end
7 cervical vertebrae - Hyoid bone - Thyroid Cartilage - Cricoid Cartilage - Carotid Tubercle
From placenta/nursing (immunity given by someone else)

39. Abdominal massage
Raises arteriol pressure & lowers heartrate
Death of tissue caused by blood blockage
Immature cell
Frontal - Ethmoid - Maxillary - Sphenoid

40. Superior Nuchal Line
Alveoli
Back of leg
Facets for ribs - long sharp Spinous processes
Ridge that goes through the EOP

41. Cephalic vein
Anterior grey horn of S.C.
Medulla
Medulla
Superficial vein on the radial side of the arm dump into the axillary vein

42. Brachiocephalic Artery
Associated with speech
Right side of arch - becomes right subclavian artery & Right Common Carotid
Elderly person - at ankle joint - distal tibia
Dorsal and plantar arteries of the foot

43. Parathyroid
Medulla
In the skin
Located bleow thyroid - produces PTH
Toward eachother

44. Anastomoses
Connect the brain & spinal cord
Junctions between blood vessels serving the same organ - if blood supply is cut off from one place it is rerouted.
Back of hard palat of mouth
Caps the brain

45. Veins
Thalmus - hypothalmus & pituitary
Take blood back to heart
Relay center for all sensory information going in/out of brain
Large hole at the base of occipital bone

46. Hydroxyapartites
Carotid arteries
Drains into Subclavian - posterior triangle of neck
Crystals in bone
Contraction of muscle & respiratory pump

47. Cranial bones
Presence of thymine in DNA not RNA
Frontal - parietal - temporal occipital - ethmoid - sphenoid
Espohagus
Pick up fat and bring back to CV system via lymphatics

48. Troponin
Medulla
Ventricular repolarization
Growth and repair cell reproduction
Moves tropomyosin aside & exposes myosin binding sites when Ca+ is released

49. Stems cell
Immature cell
Holes in T.P's - bifurcated S.P.'s
Frontal - parietal - temporal occipital - ethmoid - sphenoid
Tissues

50. Major Histocompatibility complex (MHC)
Freely moveable joint (all synovial)
Right side of arch - becomes right subclavian artery & Right Common Carotid
Used in tissue transplants to determine if the body will reject the tissue
Brain stem (cranio) & lateral horn of sacral S.C.