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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Callus
Mass of repair tissue that bridges the end of a long bone
Supply diaphragm
Myosin heads/bridge gaps btw thin/thick filaments
Protects muscle & associated tendon from damage due to over stretch

2. Myofibrils
Linea Alba
Ability to grow
Right subclavian vein
Bundle of overlapping thick & thin filaments

3. Parts of the Sternum
Avascular tissue - CNS - red bone marrow & spleen
Manubrium - body - Xiphoid process
Espohagus
Liver

4. Troponin/Tropomyosin
Setting a bone with a cast or splint
Regulatory proteins that ewnable muscle finers to start or stop contracting
Transverse foramena
Drains into Superior Vena Cava

5. Vitamin D synthesis needs
UV light
Protects against muscle/tendon tears
Flexes vertebral column
Superficial vein that starts at the lateral malleolous and dumps into the poplitial vein

6. Lowest pp O2 is in...
Tissues
Air in pleural cavity
Capillaries
Drains into Brachiocephalic - In Anterior Triangle of neck

7. Thalmus
Relay center for all sensory information going in/out of brain
Associated with stress
External intercostals
Appendix

8. Metarteriol
Frontal - Ethmoid - maxilla - sphenoid
Produced by thyroid - regulate metabolism
Connects a capillary and a venule
Increase surface area so more can be digested

9. Retroperiteneal organs
Kidneys and pancreas
Associated with speech
Spidery middle layer of the meninges
Surgical neck - where metaphasis was

10. Abcess
Diaphragm
Peritoneum
Gallbladder
Puss filled cavity - must be drained

11. Inferior Nasal chonchae
Rectus sheath
In nasal cavity cause air to swirl around
How T lymphocytes attack
Ability to specialize cells

12. Diencephalon
Myosin
@ arteriol end of capillary blood colloidal osmotic pressure is higher than blood hydrostatic pressure - vice versa at the venus end
Thalmus - hypothalmus & pituitary
Connects a capillary and a venule

13. Sphenoid articulates with...
All other bones of the skull (keystone)
Myosin
8
Formed by 2 lamina coming together

14. Hemothorax
Branched off of Brachiocephalic - splits into internal & external
Alveoli
Blood in pleural cavity
Lowest pp CO2

15. Muscular arteries
Popliteal artery
Common Illiac Arteries
Serve organs - have more smooth muscle for vasodilation/constriction
Capillaries

16. Infarction
Duodenum - jejunum - ilium
Lymph nodes - spleen - liver
Lack of blood to an area - can cause hypoxia
Death of tissue caused by blood blockage

17. Muscle Fibers
Costal cartilage
Caps the brain
Occipital bone
Muscle cells named for their elongated shape and multinucleated

18. Organ that hangs off of secum
Drain into Subclavians
Appendix
L & R common iliacs
Blood in pleural cavity

19. perforin & lymphotoxin
How T lymphocytes attack
Between arachnoid layer & pia mater - houses cerebral spinal fluid
Simple columnar epithelium
Alveoli

20. Phrenic arteries
Sacral & Thoracic
Air in pleural cavity
No body - no spinous processes
Supply diaphragm

21. Sacrum
Keystone
8
Located within and around joints for protection from pressure/ excess acceloration and deceloration
Back of leg

22. Filtration
Located within and around joints for protection from pressure/ excess acceloration and deceloration
How T lymphocytes attack
Interstitial fluid comes from blood plasma @ arteriol end - at venus end it returns to the blood
Pushing the molecule thru the membrane (PASSIVE)

23. Pineal Gland
Controls sleep cycle
25
Drains into Superior Vena Cava
Spleen

24. Androgens
Duodenum - jejunum - ilium
Produced by adrenals - form male/female sex characteristics
Caps the brain
Scoliosis

25. Parasympathetic neurons come from
Frontal - temporal - parietal - occipital
Immature cell
Intracellular fluid
Brain stem (cranio) & lateral horn of sacral S.C.

26. sub-arachnoid space
Ascending - hepatic flexure - transverse - splenic flexure - descending - sigmoid - rectum - anus
Between arachnoid layer & pia mater - houses cerebral spinal fluid
Between stomach & espohagus
Measure muscle length

27. Preferred site for a shot
Kidneys and pancreas
Most moveable bone of the skull
1st stage if inflamation
Gluteus medius

28. Calcitonin
When you get the disease and create antibodies against it
Lowers blood calcium
Air in pleural cavity
Hormone of the skin

29. Pain in L/R Quadrant
Abdominal aorta
Chemotaxis - adhesion - ingestion - lysis - ejection
Appendix
Spongy/cancellous bone

30. Growth
Only movable facial bone
Migrate to Thymus and mature
Ability to grow
Anterior grey horn of S.C.

31. T lymphocytes
Between arachnoid layer & pia mater - houses cerebral spinal fluid
Located in sphenoid - houses the pituitary
Migrate to Thymus and mature
Perforin

32. Difference between DNA & RNA
Common illiac arteries
Alveoli
Presence of thymine in DNA not RNA
External intercostals

33. Signs of skin cancer
Superficial vein on the ulnar side of the arm dump into the brachial vein
ABCD - Asymmetry - Border - Color - Diameter
Located bleow thyroid - produces PTH
Between arachnoid layer & pia mater - houses cerebral spinal fluid

34. ECG "P" wave
Depression in sphenoid bone that houses the pituitary
Pressure - flow - valves - muscle pump - respiratory pump
Atrial depolarization
Capillaries

35. Amphiarthrosis
Medial aspect of temporal lobe of brain
Ventricular repolarization
Some movement in a joint
Portal vein

36. Lumbar vertebrae
Largest - short stubby transv. processes
Peritoneum
Clusters of cells located in the thymus gland possible for cites of T-cell death
Superficial vein on the radial side of the arm dump into the axillary vein

37. Each Actin has a _____ binding site
Deep sleep
Makes up lower part of nasal septum
Peritoneum
Myosin

38. Lacteal
Pick up fat and bring back to CV system via lymphatics
Compress the abdomen
Right side of arch - becomes right subclavian artery & Right Common Carotid
Collagen

39. Epinephrine
Swelling of lymphatic tissue @ L2 that brings lymph to Thoracic duct (left lymphatic duct)
Also called adrenaline - produced by medulla of Adrenals
Blood diverted to the liver from the digestive tract
Spleen

40. Right Common Carotid Artery
Anti-inflamitory produced by Adrenal Glands
Produce Glucocorticoids - cortisol - mineralcorticoids - aldosterone - androgens
Sacral & Thoracic
Branched off of Brachiocephalic - splits into internal & external

41. Proprioreceptors
Alveoli
Stretch receptors
Transverse foramena
Motor pathway

42. T-lymphocites use
Perforin and lymphotoxin
Antibody injection
Released energy
Gluteus medius

43. Veins
From placenta/nursing (immunity given by someone else)
Drains into Subclavian - posterior triangle of neck
Raises blood calcium
Take blood back to heart

44. Rickets
Childhood osteomalacia
Functional unit of the respiratory system
Red & white pulp
Controls sleep cycle

45. SCALP
Skin - Connective Tissue - Aponeurosis - Loose connective tissue - Pericranuim
1st stage if inflamation
Holes in T.P's - bifurcated S.P.'s
Inferior Mesenteric artery

46. Dense connective tissue
Between dura mater and arachnoid layers - houses interstitial fluid
Makes up tendons
Suprarenal Glands
Renal Artery

47. All ribs articulate with...
Movement
Has both A & B antiglutens (Universal Donor)
Arteries
Costal cartilage

48. Thoracic vertrbrae
Pubic bone
Jugular Vein
Pulmonary veins
Facets for ribs - long sharp Spinous processes

49. Abdominal massage
Raises arteriol pressure & lowers heartrate
Pulmonary veins
Kidneys and pancreas
Lymphatic tissue containing T's B's and macrophages

50. Vertebral foramen
Covers myosin binding sites on the actin molecules
Produced by thyroid - regulate metabolism
Pulling fluid FROM interstitial spaces into the capillary/ highest at venule end of capillary (reabsorption)
Hole for spinal cord