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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Muscular tube that exits kidneys
Ureter
Connects pituitary & Hypothalmus
Growth and repair cell reproduction
Cervical & Lumbar

2. Common iliac veins form
Inferior vena cava
Diaphragm
Setting a bone with a cast or splint
Basal cell carcinoma

3. Norepinephrine in brain...
Responsible for wakefulness
Left subclavian vein
CHON - Carbon - Hydrogen - Oxygen - Nitrogen
Skeletal muscles

4. Thymus has
Located in the temporal bone
Myosin heads/bridge gaps btw thin/thick filaments
Hasselmans corpuscles
Longer refractory peroid

5. Slowest flow of blood
Line stomach - produce mucus & heparin
Chemotaxis - adhesion - ingestion - lysis - ejection
Transverse foramena
Capillaries

6. Superior mesenteric arteries
Outside of long bones
Movement of water down the concentration gradient
Passive process molecule moves down the concentration gradient (from highest to lowest concentration)
Supply upper digestive track

7. Capillaries
Intracellular fluid
Blood osmotic pressure - blood hydrostatic pressure
Functional unit of the respiratory system
Sum of all chemical reactions in the body

8. Rectus Abdominus
Flexes vertebral column
Movement of water down the concentration gradient
Removes RBC - WBC - stores platelets
Costal cartilage

9. Troponin
Develope in bone marrow
Normal wakefulness
Basal cell carcinoma
Moves tropomyosin aside & exposes myosin binding sites when Ca+ is released

10. Radiant energy
Released energy
Molecule aided by a carrier molecule (PASSIVE)
Removes RBC - WBC - stores platelets
Place on molecule where they attach to one another or something else

11. Inferior Nasal chonchae
Presence of thymine in DNA not RNA
Ureter
In nasal cavity cause air to swirl around
Medulla - pons - mid brain

12. Veins
Accepts the weight of the body & transfers it to the foot
Found in sutures of the skull - saggital and lambdoidal
Delicate vascular inner layer of the meninges - indirect contact with the brain
Take blood back to heart

13. Muscular arteries
Frontal - Ethmoid - maxilla - sphenoid
Connect the brain & spinal cord
Each gas exerts a partial pressure contributing to the total pressure of the air
Arteries that supply organs and have to ability to vassoconstric/dilate

14. Left Common Carotid artery
Formation of bones
Left side of arch - splits into internal and external
Serve organs - have more smooth muscle for vasodilation/constriction
Relay center for all sensory information going in/out of brain

15. Surfactant
Drains into Brachiocephalic
Produced by thyroid - regulate metabolism
Compact bone
Coat alveolus and keep them from collapsing

16. Connective tissue from Xiphoid to Pubis
Linea Alba
Mass of repair tissue that bridges the end of a long bone
Stored energy
Espohagus

17. Origin of Rectus Abdominus
Produce Glucocorticoids - cortisol - mineralcorticoids - aldosterone - androgens
Pubic bone
Valve between stomach & duodenum
Spidery middle layer of the meninges

18. Pacinian/lamelated corpuscle
Formation of bones
Most abundant cell in epidermis
Deep pressure sensors
How T lymphocytes attack

19. Muscle of forced expiration
Saggital - coronal squamous - lambdoidal
Internal intercostals & Abs
Increase surface area so more can be digested
Caps the brain

20. Inorganic substance that makes bone hard
Moves tropomyosin aside & exposes myosin binding sites when Ca+ is released
Ethmoid bone
Calcium
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21. External Occipital Protuberance
Myosin heads/bridge gaps btw thin/thick filaments
Suprarenal Glands
Clusters of cells located in the thymus gland possible for cites of T-cell death
Base of occipital bone

22. All ribs articulate with...
No point of contact with any other bone
Diffusion
Capillaries
Costal cartilage

23. Potential Energy
Back of hard palat of mouth
Stored energy
Fibular (peroneal) artery
Suprarenal Glands

24. Cysterna chyle
Some movement in a joint
Almond shaped group of neurons in temporal lobe responsible for memory & emotional reaction
Swelling of lymphatic tissue @ L2 that brings lymph to Thoracic duct (left lymphatic duct)
Drains into Brachiocephalic

25. Supply blood to lower limbs
Common Illiac Arteries
Movement of water down the concentration gradient
Blood diverted to the liver from the digestive tract
Located on alveoli - prevent them from sticking together

26. Intestinal mucosa made up of
Renals and Hepatic veins
Supply diaphragm
Simple columnar epithelium
Costal cartilage

27. Lowest pp O2 is in...
Tissues
When you get the disease and create antibodies against it
Houses the inner ear
Diaphysis

28. Cranial bones
Peritoneum
Junctions between blood vessels serving the same organ - if blood supply is cut off from one place it is rerouted.
Solar plexus
Frontal - parietal - temporal occipital - ethmoid - sphenoid

29. Lesser Saphenous vein
Passive process molecule moves down the concentration gradient (from highest to lowest concentration)
Superficial vein that starts at the lateral malleolous and dumps into the poplitial vein
Alveoli
Left subclavian vein

30. Metarteriole
Connects arteriole/venule to a capillary
In nasal cavity cause air to swirl around
Lacrimal
Anchors nuchal ligament

31. Shattered bone
Clusters of cells located in the thymus gland possible for cites of T-cell death
Peritoneum
Produced by thyroid gland maintains calcium homeostasis by lowering levels in blood
Communited fracture

32. Beta brain waves
Normal wakefulness
Bundle of overlapping thick & thin filaments
Solar plexus
UV light

33. Most common inorganic molecule
Folds in the brain
Water
Transverse - internal & externals
Movement

34. Cephalic vein
Anti-inflamitory produced by Adrenal Glands
Superficial vein on the radial side of the arm dump into the axillary vein
Response is opposite of stimulus
No point of contact with any other bone

35. Beyond the diaphragm aorta is called...
Originate on axial skeleton
Lacrimal
Abdominal aorta
Presence of thymine in DNA not RNA

36. Type B blood
Held by billroths rods
Has A antiglutens
Lymph nodes - spleen - liver
Cheek bones

37. Vitamin D synthesis needs
Red & white pulp
Alveoli
Outer layer of the meninges
UV light

38. C2
Axis - dens is point of rotation
Swelling of lymphatic tissue @ L2 that brings lymph to Thoracic duct (left lymphatic duct)
All other bones of the skull (keystone)
Thalmus - hypothalmus & pituitary

39. Ossification completes by age
Red & white pulp
Response enhances stimulus
25
Lymphatic nodules at junction of oral cavity & pharynx

40. Brachiocephalic Vein
Drains into Superior Vena Cava
Freely moveable joint (all synovial)
Vena Cava & pulmonary veins
Gluteus maximus

41. 75% of inhalation done by...
Diaphragm
Most mobile & largest
Innervates diaphram
Hole for spinal cord

42. Slowsest flow of blood
Capillaries to allow for gas and nutrient exchange
Great Saphenous Vein
Coat alveolus and keep them from collapsing
Front of leg

43. Aerolar tissue
No body - no spinous processes
Ethmoid bone
Facets for ribs - long sharp Spinous processes
Loose connective tissue

44. Starling's law of the capillaries
Intracellular fluid
Raises arteriol pressure & lowers heartrate
Calcitonin
@ arteriol end of capillary blood colloidal osmotic pressure is higher than blood hydrostatic pressure - vice versa at the venus end

45. Functions of arches of foot
Back of hard palat of mouth
Shock absorbtion - different terrain
Common illiac arteries
Simple columnar epithelium

46. Femoral artery becomes
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Lowers blood calcium
Raises arteriol pressure & lowers heartrate
Popliteal artery

47. Starlings law of the heart
Contraction of muscle & respiratory pump
Outer layer of the meninges
Blood osmotic pressure - blood hydrostatic pressure
Cardiac muscle fibers will contract more forcefully when fibers are stretched (the more you fill it with blood the better force of contraction)

48. Albumines
Pyloric sphincter
For blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Valve between stomach & duodenum
Diaphragm

49. Right lymphatic duct drains into...
Right subclavian vein
Espohagus
Response enhances stimulus
Located bleow thyroid - produces PTH

50. Muscular arteries
Ascending - hepatic flexure - transverse - splenic flexure - descending - sigmoid - rectum - anus
Responsible for wakefulness
Lack of blood to an area - can cause hypoxia
Serve organs - have more smooth muscle for vasodilation/constriction