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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Colles fracture
Cytoplasm inside each muscle fiber that contains mitochondria & myofibrils
Prevertebral ganglions
Supply lower GI tract
Occurs in forearm/ at distal radius

2. Starling's law of capillaries 2
Thick filament (contractile protein)
Held by billroths rods
Interstitial fluid comes from blood plasma @ arteriol end - at venus end it returns to the blood
Vaccination

3. Fastest flow of blood
Arteries
Root of nose (top bridge)
Ability to respond to stimuli
Articulate with C1 on either side of the Foramen Magnum

4. Part of the venous circulation of the leg - used in bypass surgury
Produces T3 - T4 - Calcitonin
Great Saphenous Vein
Pulling fluid FROM interstitial spaces into the capillary/ highest at venule end of capillary (reabsorption)
Has both A & B antiglutens (Universal Donor)

5. External Occipital Protuberance
ABCD - Asymmetry - Border - Color - Diameter
Caps the brain
Base of occipital bone
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6. Cranial bones
Alveoli
Thin filament (contractile protein)
Frontal - parietal - temporal occipital - ethmoid - sphenoid
Mentalis

7. Zone of primary ossification
Attacks pathogens dissolved in body fluids
Diaphysis
Transverse foramena
Presence of thymine in DNA not RNA

8. Starlings law of the heart
Cardiac muscle fibers will contract more forcefully when fibers are stretched (the more you fill it with blood the better force of contraction)
Paravertebral ganglions
Toward eachother
Accepts the weight of the body & transfers it to the foot

9. Osmosis
Movement of water down the concentration gradient
Renals and Hepatic veins
Paravertebral ganglions
Has no antiglutens (universal recipient)

10. Endochondral ossification
Suprarenal Glands
Surgical neck - where metaphasis was
Formation of bones
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11. Crossbridge cycle
Binding of myosin to actin - powerstroke - rigor - unbinding - cocking of the myosin heads
Peritoneum
Ability to respond to stimuli
Produced in Parathyroid - raises calcium blood levels

12. Mandible
Spleen - lymph nodes
Atlas - no body - no pedicle - no lamina - no SP
Most moveable bone of the skull
Cheek bones

13. Fastest flow of blood
Response is opposite of stimulus
Cardiac muscle fibers will contract more forcefully when fibers are stretched (the more you fill it with blood the better force of contraction)
Arteries
A section of each myofibril that is bordered on either side by z lines

14. Spleen tissue type
Red & white pulp
Formed by 2 lamina coming together
Red bone marrow & thymus
Appendix

15. Retroperiteneal organs
Appendix
Phrenic
Kidneys and pancreas
Basilar artery

16. Passive natural immunity
Anterior and posterior tibial arteries
In osseous tissue - where nerves & blood vessels are found
From placenta/nursing (immunity given by someone else)
Pressure - flow - valves - muscle pump - respiratory pump

17. Natural active immunity
Thalmus - hypothalmus & pituitary
Puss filled cavity - must be drained
Inward movement of water fromblood stream into interstitial fluid / highest at arteriol end of capillary (filtration)
When you get the disease and create antibodies against it

18. Jugular Vein (internal)
Drains into Brachiocephalic - In Anterior Triangle of neck
Basal cell carcinoma
Veins
Perforin

19. Slowsest flow of blood
Capillaries to allow for gas and nutrient exchange
Thoracic vertebrae
Pushing the molecule thru the membrane (PASSIVE)
Holes in T.P's - bifurcated S.P.'s

20. Motor neurons come from...
Anterior grey horn of S.C.
Molecule aided by a carrier molecule (PASSIVE)
Blood in pleural cavity
Flexes vertebral column

21. Pneumothorax
Left side of arch - splits into internal and external
Largest - short stubby transv. processes
Air in pleural cavity
Hormone produced by pineal gland

22. Bony landmarks of anterior neck
Frontal - temporal - parietal - occipital
7 cervical vertebrae - Hyoid bone - Thyroid Cartilage - Cricoid Cartilage - Carotid Tubercle
External intercostals
Large hole at the base of occipital bone

23. Muscle spindles
Measure muscle length
Frontal - Ethmoid - maxilla - sphenoid
Saggital - coronal squamous - lambdoidal
Chest pain - lack of blood to heart

24. Sella turcica
Hormone of the skin
Located in sphenoid - houses the pituitary
Located in medial temporal lobe - responsible for long term memory - part of Limbic system
Elderly person - at ankle joint - distal tibia

25. At the arteriol end of the capillary which force predominates
Air in pleural cavity
Make up the nasal septum
Makes up tendons
Blood hydrostatic pressure

26. Where vitamin D synthisis begins
In the skin
Motor pathway
Located in Ethmoid
Linea Alba

27. Growth
Ability to grow
Root of nose (top bridge)
Vomer & mandible
Left side of arch - splits into internal and external

28. visceral serous pericardium
All other bones of the skull (keystone)
Epicardium
Drains into Brachiocephalic - In Anterior Triangle of neck
Superficial vein on the ulnar side of the arm dump into the brachial vein

29. Veins that dump into Inferior vena cava
Linea Alba
Pubic bone
No movement in joint (suture)
Renals and Hepatic veins

30. Blood hydrostatic pressure
Functional unit of the respiratory system
Ridge that goes through the EOP
Serve organs - have more smooth muscle for vasodilation/constriction
Inward movement of water fromblood stream into interstitial fluid / highest at arteriol end of capillary (filtration)

31. Drains most of the thorax - used as a bypass to the Inferior Vena Cava
Azygos System
Located above heart - atrophies after puberty - assists in maturation of T cells
Between stomach & espohagus
Compact bone

32. Lamellar granules
Bundle of individual muscle fibers (cells)
Contraction of muscle & respiratory pump
Thoracic vertebrae
Make skin water resistance

33. Cortisol
Puss filled cavity - must be drained
Between dura mater and arachnoid layers - houses interstitial fluid
Anti-inflamitory produced by Adrenal Glands
Loose connective tissue

34. Signs of skin cancer
Carotid arteries
ABCD - Asymmetry - Border - Color - Diameter
Osteons
Located in Sphenoid

35. Spongy bone does not have...
From placenta/nursing (immunity given by someone else)
Osteons
UV light
Kidneys and pancreas

36. Pyramidal pathway
Prevertebral ganglions
Arise off of Subclavians - within Transverse processes of cervicals - brings blood to brain
Motor pathway
Water

37. Aorta
Ascending - Arch - Descending
Setting a bone with surgury
Epicardium
Serve organs - have more smooth muscle for vasodilation/constriction

38. Compliment proteins
Makes up lower part of nasal septum
Enhance allergic - inflamatory & immune reactions
Growth rings on cross section of bone
Medulla - pons - mid brain

39. Hepatic Portal Vein
Connect the brain & spinal cord
Raises blood pressure/lowers heart rate
Blood diverted to the liver from the digestive tract
Measure muscle length

40. Passive natural immunity
Avascular tissue - CNS - red bone marrow & spleen
Arteries
Placenta & nursing
Carbon

41. Beyond the diaphragm aorta is called...
Abdominal aorta
Junctions btw blood vessels serving the same organ
Lowers blood calcium
7 cervical vertebrae - Hyoid bone - Thyroid Cartilage - Cricoid Cartilage - Carotid Tubercle

42. Petras portion of temporal bone
Originate on axial skeleton
Reproductive cell division
Myosin
Houses the inner ear

43. Haversian canals
Blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Movement
Ascending - hepatic flexure - transverse - splenic flexure - descending - sigmoid - rectum - anus
In osseous tissue - where nerves & blood vessels are found

44. Cell mediated immunity
Spleen
Elderly person - at ankle joint - distal tibia
Back of leg
Cells attack other cells

45. Merkels discs
Located in epidermis
Formed by 2 lamina coming together
Anchors nuchal ligament
Lymphatic nodules at junction of oral cavity & pharynx

46. Organ that produces bile
Midline of neck - scm - mandible
Largest - short stubby transv. processes
Connects arteriole/venule to a capillary
Liver

47. Artificial active immunity
Tissues
Vaccination
Largest - short stubby transv. processes
Normal wakefulness

48. ECG "QRS" wave
Located bleow thyroid - produces PTH
Ventricular depolarization
Enhance allergic - inflamatory & immune reactions
Simple columnar epithelium

49. Basilic vein
Superficial vein on the ulnar side of the arm dump into the brachial vein
Occipital bone
In the skin
Scoliosis

50. Cerebellum
Sits behind the brain stem - responsible for balance
Renal Artery
Frontal - temporal - parietal - occipital
Medial part of inside of eye