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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Necrosis
Dead tissue
Houses the inner ear
Azygos System
Perforin and lymphotoxin

2. T-lymphocites use
Serve organs - have more smooth muscle for vasodilation/constriction
Perforin and lymphotoxin
Atrial depolarization
Chemotaxis - adhesion - ingestion - lysis - ejection

3. Sarcoplasm
Cytoplasm inside each muscle fiber that contains mitochondria & myofibrils
Loose connective tissue
Connect the brain & spinal cord
Compact bone

4. Hepatic vein
Some movement in a joint
Mass of neural tissue that develops into dorsal root ganglia
Innervates diaphram
Blood from liver to the inferior vena cava

5. Foramen magnum location
Osteon activity by way of calcium regulation
Place on molecule where they attach to one another or something else
Occipital bone
Outer layer of the meninges

6. Femur
Serve organs - have more smooth muscle for vasodilation/constriction
Being immune
Heaviest bone
Alveoli

7. Slowest flow of blood
Branched off of Brachiocephalic - splits into internal & external
Released energy
Capillaries
Lack of blood to an area - can cause hypoxia

8. Occipital condyles
Puss filled cavity - must be drained
Cardiac muscle fibers will contract more forcefully when fibers are stretched (the more you fill it with blood the better force of contraction)
Arangement of compact bone
Articulate with C1 on either side of the Foramen Magnum

9. Secondary Vertebral curves
In small intestines expands surface area to increase absorption of nutrients
Presence of thymine in DNA not RNA
Cervical & Lumbar
Sa node - av node - av bundle - bundle branches - conduction myofibers (Perkinje)

10. Troponin
Moves tropomyosin aside & exposes myosin binding sites when Ca+ is released
SCM - Trapezius - Clavicle
Shock absorbtion - different terrain
Costal cartilage

11. Abcess
Depression in sphenoid bone that houses the pituitary
Also called adrenaline - produced by medulla of Adrenals
Loose connective tissue
Puss filled cavity - must be drained

12. Blood resevoirs
External intercostals
On palms and soles of feet
Tissues
Veins 60% of blood at any one time

13. Sliding filament
Produced by thyroid gland maintains calcium homeostasis by lowering levels in blood
Between arachnoid layer & pia mater - houses cerebral spinal fluid
Muscles contract because the thin/thick filaments slide past eachother
Depression in sphenoid bone that houses the pituitary

14. Villi in small intestines
Blood hydrostatic pressure - blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Left and right coronary arteries
Increase surface area so more can be digested
Facets for ribs - long sharp Spinous processes

15. C1/Atlas
No body - no spinous processes
Lymph nodules in ileum of sm. intestines
Valve between stomach & duodenum
Ability to grow

16. Primary Vertebral Curves
(Adenohypophysis) produces 7 hormones
Sacral & Thoracic
Gallbladder
Medulla

17. Starlings law of the heart
Superficial vein that starts at the lateral malleolous and dumps into the poplitial vein
Formed by 2 lamina coming together
Associated with speech
Cardiac muscle fibers will contract more forcefully when fibers are stretched (the more you fill it with blood the better force of contraction)

18. Hemothorax
Root of nose (top bridge)
Connect the brain & spinal cord
Placenta & nursing
Blood in pleural cavity

19. Thymus Gland
Right side of arch - becomes right subclavian artery & Right Common Carotid
Hasselmans corpuscles
Appendix
Located above heart - atrophies after puberty - assists in maturation of T cells

20. Meiosis
Reproductive cell division
Caps the brain
Sits behind the brain stem - responsible for balance
Diffusion

21. Rickets
Medulla
Scoliosis
Childhood osteomalacia
Almond shaped group of neurons in temporal lobe responsible for memory & emotional reaction

22. Cephalic vein
Myosin heads/bridge gaps btw thin/thick filaments
Produced by adrenals - form male/female sex characteristics
Compress the abdomen
Superficial vein on the radial side of the arm dump into the axillary vein

23. Albumines
Inferior vena cava
Originate on axial skeleton
Sacral & Thoracic
For blood colloidal osmotic pressure

24. Vitamin D
Osteon activity by way of calcium regulation
Diffusion
Myosin
Hormone of the skin

25. Factors that effect blood pressure
Cardiac output - volume - periferal resistance
On palms and soles of feet
Makes up tendons
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26. Optical Foramen
Located in Sphenoid
Blood hydrostatic pressure - blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Located in epidermis
Crystals in bone

27. Capillaries
Make skin water resistance
Ureter
Functional unit of the respiratory system
Located in epidermis

28. Stems cell
Immature cell
Located in sphenoid - houses the pituitary
Transverse - internal & externals
Depression in sphenoid bone that houses the pituitary

29. Ventricles
Cavities within the brain that make cerebral spinal fluid
Growth rings on cross section of bone
Between dura mater and arachnoid layers - houses interstitial fluid
Arteries

30. Dense connective tissue
Between dura mater and arachnoid layers - houses interstitial fluid
Supply upper digestive track
Intracellular fluid
Makes up tendons

31. Arachnoid
Suprarenal Glands
Articulate with C1 on either side of the Foramen Magnum
Spidery middle layer of the meninges
Blood colloidal osmotic pressure

32. Iliocecal sphincter
Red & white pulp
Valve between ilium & cecum of lg intestines
Linea Alba
Produced by thyroid - regulate metabolism

33. Joint kinesthetic receptor
Located within and around joints for protection from pressure/ excess acceloration and deceloration
Azygos System
Superficial vein on the ulnar side of the arm dump into the brachial vein
Common Illiac Arteries

34. median cubital arch
Hormone produced by pineal gland
Antibody injection
Front of leg
Anastomoses connecting the cephalic and basilic veins

35. Lacteals
Pick up dietary fats and transport them to cysterna chyle
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Has B antiglutens
Surrounds each myofibril & stores & releases Ca+ when muscle cell is stimulated to contract

36. PTH
Raises blood calcium
Capillaries to allow for gas and nutrient exchange
Medulla
Produced in Parathyroid - raises calcium blood levels

37. Risorius
7 cervical vertebrae - Hyoid bone - Thyroid Cartilage - Cricoid Cartilage - Carotid Tubercle
Lacrimal
Attaches to corners of mouth
In occiput

38. Starling's law of the capillaries
L & R common iliacs
From placenta/nursing (immunity given by someone else)
@ arteriol end of capillary blood colloidal osmotic pressure is higher than blood hydrostatic pressure - vice versa at the venus end
Epicardium

39. Spinous processes
Used in tissue transplants to determine if the body will reject the tissue
Between stomach & espohagus
Formed by 2 lamina coming together
Thalmus - hypothalmus & pituitary

40. Nerve plexus that runs thru psoas/QL
Lumbar plexus
Death of tissue caused by blood blockage
Drains into Subclavian - posterior triangle of neck
Cheek bones

41. Conjestive Heart failure (CHF)
Nervous and endocrine
Fluid build up in lower extremily - right side of heart death - fluid build up in lungs - left side of heart death
Supply upper digestive track
Arteries

42. Oxytocin & ADH
Avascular tissue - CNS - red bone marrow & spleen
Connects a capillary and a venule
Serve organs - have more smooth muscle for vasodilation/constriction
Hormones produced in hypothalmus & stored in (posterior) pituitary

43. Cerebellum
Raises blood pressure/lowers heart rate
Sits behind the brain stem - responsible for balance
Contributes to oppostioi of thumb & pinki
Presence of thymine in DNA not RNA

44. Actin
Medulla
Thin filament (contractile protein)
Toward eachother
Blood osmotic pressure - blood hydrostatic pressure

45. Lower esophageal sphincter
Between stomach & espohagus
Lighten skull - voice production - resonate sound
Irritation of the plural cavity by build up of extra fluid
Bundle of individual muscle fibers (cells)

46. Highest pp CO2 in...
All other bones of the skull (keystone)
CHON - Carbon - Hydrogen - Oxygen - Nitrogen
Intracellular fluid
Ability to respond to stimuli

47. Septal cells (type II)
Left side of arch - Vertebral Artery branches off of it
Veins 60% of blood at any one time
Contraction of muscle & respiratory pump
Make surfactant in alveolus

48. Dura mater
Intracellular fluid
Blood pressure
Diaphragm
Outer layer of the meninges

49. Medulla of Adrenals
Abdominal aorta
Produce Epinephrine or adrenaline
Valve between ilium & cecum of lg intestines
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50. Merkels discs
Touch receptor in papillae
Dorsal and plantar arteries of the foot
Located in epidermis
Cell membrane