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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Lesser Saphenous vein
Inferior Mesenteric artery
Getting the disease and creating antibodies
Superficial vein that starts at the lateral malleolous and dumps into the poplitial vein
Sits behind the brain stem - responsible for balance

2. Vertebral Arteries
Solar plexus
Arise off of Subclavians - within Transverse processes of cervicals - brings blood to brain
Espohagus
Appendix

3. Lats and pecs
ABCD - Asymmetry - Border - Color - Diameter
Originate on axial skeleton
Anterior and posterior tibial arteries
Pulling fluid FROM interstitial spaces into the capillary/ highest at venule end of capillary (reabsorption)

4. Pyramidal pathway
Right subclavian vein
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Abdominal aorta
Motor pathway

5. Vertebrae that have articular facets for ribs on transverse processes
Anastomoses connecting the cephalic and basilic veins
Arteries
Thoracic vertebrae
Lumbar vertebrae

6. Parasympathetics
Prevertebral ganglions
Amount of energy required to stick 2 molecules together
Back of hard palat of mouth
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7. Fastest flow of blood
Red & white pulp
Coat alveolus and keep them from collapsing
Located within and around joints for protection from pressure/ excess acceloration and deceloration
Arteries

8. Aorta
NOT part of the osteon
Crystals in bone
Ascending - Arch - Descending
Between arachnoid layer & pia mater - houses cerebral spinal fluid

9. sSpleen
Cavities within the brain that make cerebral spinal fluid
Valve between stomach & duodenum
Held by billroths rods
Freely moveable joint (all synovial)

10. Location of respiratory rate center in brain
Carbon
(Adenohypophysis) produces 7 hormones
Only movable facial bone
Medulla

11. Gyri
Abdominal aorta
Folds in the brain
Myosin heads
Responsible for wakefulness

12. Sarcoplasmic Reticulum
1st stage if inflamation
Between stomach & espohagus
Surrounds each myofibril & stores & releases Ca+ when muscle cell is stimulated to contract
Located in Ethmoid

13. Vein from liver to Vena Cava
Raises blood calcium
Kidneys and pancreas
Hepatic vein
Arangement of compact bone

14. Drains most of the thorax - used as a bypass to the Inferior Vena Cava
Azygos System
Vaccination
Spidery middle layer of the meninges
Frontal - Ethmoid - maxilla - sphenoid

15. Aerolar tissue
Normal wakefulness
Loose connective tissue
Shock absorbtion - different terrain
Used in tissue transplants to determine if the body will reject the tissue

16. Shaft of bone
Compact bone
Irritation of the plural cavity by build up of extra fluid
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Lymph nodes - lungs - spleen

17. Muscular tube that exits kidneys
Ureter
Depression in sphenoid bone that houses the pituitary
Hepatic vein
Response is opposite of stimulus

18. Vomer bone
Lymphatic nodules at junction of oral cavity & pharynx
Anastomoses connecting the cephalic and basilic veins
Toward eachother
Makes up lower part of nasal septum

19. NK cells release...
Perforin
Sits behind the brain stem - responsible for balance
Placenta & nursing
Attacks pathogens dissolved in body fluids

20. Paranasal sinuses
Frontal - Ethmoid - maxilla - sphenoid
Diaphragm
Vena Cava & pulmonary veins
Ability to grow

21. Foramen Magnum
Migrate to Thymus and mature
Keystone
Large hole at the base of occipital bone
Articulate with C1 on either side of the Foramen Magnum

22. Pneumothorax
Puss filled cavity - must be drained
Anchors nuchal ligament
Air in pleural cavity
Ability to grow

23. B lymphocytes
Functional unit of the respiratory system
Growth and repair cell reproduction
Presence of thymine in DNA not RNA
Develope in bone marrow

24. Lacrimal bones
Located on alveoli - prevent them from sticking together
Left and right coronary arteries
Medial part of inside of eye
Blood in pleural cavity

25. Blood resevoirs
Vaccination
Veins 60% of blood at any one time
Right subclavian vein
Ethmoid bone

26. Function of paranasal sinuses
Arteries
Occipital bone
Lighten skull - voice production - resonate sound
Muscle cells named for their elongated shape and multinucleated

27. Secondary Vertebral curves
Arteries
Cervical & Lumbar
Duodenum - jejunum - ilium
Growth and repair cell reproduction

28. Risorius
Attaches to corners of mouth
In occiput
Top part of face (attached to zygomatics)
Swelling of lymphatic tissue @ L2 that brings lymph to Thoracic duct (left lymphatic duct)

29. Where does interstitial fluid come from?
Ventricular repolarization
Contraction of muscle & respiratory pump
Blood
Water

30. Lower esophageal sphincter
Dorsal and plantar arteries of the foot
Between stomach & espohagus
Blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Motor pathway

31. ECG "T" wave
Inferior Mesenteric artery
Arteries
Responsible for wakefulness
Ventricular repolarization

32. Starling's law of the capillaries
Myosin heads/bridge gaps btw thin/thick filaments
Accepts the weight of the body & transfers it to the foot
Celiac trunk
@ arteriol end of capillary blood colloidal osmotic pressure is higher than blood hydrostatic pressure - vice versa at the venus end

33. Passive natural immunity
Lowers blood calcium
Placenta & nursing
Produced by adrenals - hold sodium & prevent dehydration
Posterior pituitary stores Oxytocin & ADH

34. Retroperiteneal organs
Toward eachother
Covers myosin binding sites on the actin molecules
Kidneys and pancreas
Carotid arteries

35. Mandible bone
Diaphragm
Anchors nuchal ligament
Vagus 10
Only movable facial bone

36. sub-arachnoid space
Functional unit of the respiratory system
Myosin heads
Brachial Artery
Between arachnoid layer & pia mater - houses cerebral spinal fluid

37. Pia mater
Scoliosis
Lymphatic nodules at junction of oral cavity & pharynx
Delicate vascular inner layer of the meninges - indirect contact with the brain
Rectus sheath

38. Muscular arteries
Right side of arch - becomes right subclavian artery & Right Common Carotid
Drains into Superior Vena Cava
Serve organs - have more smooth muscle for vasodilation/constriction
Fibular (peroneal) artery

39. Right lymphatic duct drains into...
Produces T3 - T4 - Calcitonin
Deep pressure sensors
Drains into Brachiocephalic
Right subclavian vein

40. 2 control systems of the body
Nervous and endocrine
External intercostals
Ventricular repolarization
Produced by adrenals - hold sodium & prevent dehydration

41. Sella turcica
Air in pleural cavity
Presence of thymine in DNA not RNA
Placenta & nursing
Depression in sphenoid bone that houses the pituitary

42. Common iliac veins form
Cardiac output - volume - periferal resistance
Inferior vena cava
Function of skin
Red & white pulp

43. Hemothorax
Located in epidermis
Skin - Connective Tissue - Aponeurosis - Loose connective tissue - Pericranuim
Surgical neck - where metaphasis was
Blood in pleural cavity

44. Maxilla bones
Veins 60% of blood at any one time
Located in the spleen - in the red pulp - remove old RBC's - store platelets - hemopoiesis in fetus
Relay center for all sensory information going in/out of brain
Top part of face (attached to zygomatics)

45. C1
Drains into Brachiocephalic
Atlas - no body - no pedicle - no lamina - no SP
Vertebral prominence
Left and right coronary arteries

46. Left Common Carotid artery
Posterior pituitary stores Oxytocin & ADH
Left side of arch - splits into internal and external
Osteons
Setting a bone with a cast or splint

47. Arachnoid
In osseous tissue - where nerves & blood vessels are found
Spidery middle layer of the meninges
Mandible
Gallbladder

48. Open reduction
Surrounds each myofibril & stores & releases Ca+ when muscle cell is stimulated to contract
Located in the spleen - in the red pulp - remove old RBC's - store platelets - hemopoiesis in fetus
Cavities within the brain that make cerebral spinal fluid
Setting a bone with surgury

49. Muscular arteries
Branched off of Brachiocephalic - splits into internal & external
Arteries that supply organs and have to ability to vassoconstric/dilate
Movement
Blood osmotic pressure - blood hydrostatic pressure

50. Necrosis
Appendix
Dead tissue
Compress the abdomen
Spidery middle layer of the meninges