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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Largest - strongest muscle of the body
Gluteus maximus
Originate on axial skeleton
Anchors nuchal ligament
Duodenum - jejunum - ilium

2. Organs that have a hilus
Lymph nodes - spleen - liver
Delicate vascular inner layer of the meninges - indirect contact with the brain
Stored energy
ABCD - Asymmetry - Border - Color - Diameter

3. Merkels discs
Located in epidermis
Held by billroths rods
Raises arteriol pressure & lowers heartrate
Branched off of Brachiocephalic - splits into internal & external

4. Simple diffusion
Passive process molecule moves down the concentration gradient (from highest to lowest concentration)
Contributes to oppostioi of thumb & pinki
Flexes vertebral column
Posterior pituitary stores Oxytocin & ADH

5. Vertebral arteries form...
Basilar artery
Calcium
Held by billroths rods
Ventricular repolarization

6. # of facial bones
Osteons
Keystone
Produced by infected body cells - diffuse to non-effected cells to "interfere" with viral replication
14

7. median cubital arch
Removes RBC - WBC - stores platelets
Anastomoses connecting the cephalic and basilic veins
Flexes vertebral column
Lacrimal

8. Where vitamin D synthisis begins
In the skin
Has no antiglutens (universal recipient)
Chest pain - lack of blood to heart
Pulmonary arteries

9. Diarthrosis
Freely moveable joint (all synovial)
On palms and soles of feet
Left side of arch - Vertebral Artery branches off of it
Intracellular fluid

10. Amydgala
Almond shaped group of neurons in temporal lobe responsible for memory & emotional reaction
Responsible for wakefulness
Shock absorbtion - different terrain
Medulla

11. Endochondral ossification
Gluteus maximus
Cardiac output - volume - periferal resistance
Folds in the brain
Formation of bones

12. Paranasal sinuses
In osseous tissue - where nerves & blood vessels are found
Red & white pulp
Frontal - Ethmoid - Maxillary - Sphenoid
Produced by adrenals - hold sodium & prevent dehydration

13. Secondary Vertebral curves
Setting a bone with a cast or splint
Great Saphenous Vein
Cervical & Lumbar
ABCD - Asymmetry - Border - Color - Diameter

14. Connective tissue from Xiphoid to Pubis
1st stage if inflamation
Inferior vena cava
Scoliosis
Linea Alba

15. Thyroid gland
Produces T3 - T4 - Calcitonin
Myosin heads/bridge gaps btw thin/thick filaments
22
Azygos System

16. Starling's law of capillaries 2
Blood hydrostatic pressure
Located above heart - atrophies after puberty - assists in maturation of T cells
Interstitial fluid comes from blood plasma @ arteriol end - at venus end it returns to the blood
Capillaries to allow for gas and nutrient exchange

17. Action of all abdominals
Coat alveolus and keep them from collapsing
Serve organs - have more smooth muscle for vasodilation/constriction
Compress the abdomen
Ascending - hepatic flexure - transverse - splenic flexure - descending - sigmoid - rectum - anus

18. Conjestive Heart failure (CHF)
Thalmus - hypothalmus & pituitary
How T lymphocytes attack
Fluid build up in lower extremily - right side of heart death - fluid build up in lungs - left side of heart death
Connects a capillary and a venule

19. Lacteals
Pick up dietary fats and transport them to cysterna chyle
14
Motor pathway
Diaphragm

20. C1/Atlas
No body - no spinous processes
Left side of arch - Vertebral Artery branches off of it
Released energy
Longer refractory peroid

21. Thenar eminence
Contributes to oppostioi of thumb & pinki
Bundle of overlapping thick & thin filaments
Ascending - hepatic flexure - transverse - splenic flexure - descending - sigmoid - rectum - anus
Azygos System

22. Highest pp CO2 in...
Intracellular fluid
Attraction of water to blood
Freely moveable joint (all synovial)
Epicardium

23. Artificial active immunity
Lymphatic tissue containing T's B's and macrophages
Epicardium
Anterior grey horn of S.C.
Vaccination

24. Arachnoid
Anterior and posterior tibial arteries
Spidery middle layer of the meninges
Lumbar vertebrae
Common Illiac Arteries

25. Drains most of the thorax - used as a bypass to the Inferior Vena Cava
Located in Sphenoid
Ability to respond to stimuli
Duodenum - jejunum - ilium
Azygos System

26. Difference between DNA & RNA
Serve organs - have more smooth muscle for vasodilation/constriction
Presence of thymine in DNA not RNA
On palms and soles of feet
Ridge that goes through the EOP

27. Pneumothorax
Air in pleural cavity
Has dens which articualtes with atlas
Between stomach & espohagus
Produced by adrenals - hold sodium & prevent dehydration

28. Cerebellum
Cheek bones
Sits behind the brain stem - responsible for balance
Dead tissue
Deepest of Abdominal muscles

29. NK cells release...
Associated with stress
Holes for spinal nerves to exit the vertebral column
Perforin
Closing of the fontanells of babies

30. Contribut to movement of lymph
Contraction of muscle & respiratory pump
Pulmonary veins
Each gas exerts it's own partial pressure that contributes to the total pressure of the gas
14

31. Iliocecal sphincter
(Adenohypophysis) produces 7 hormones
Covers myosin binding sites on the actin molecules
Veins
Valve between ilium & cecum of lg intestines

32. Vitamin D synthesis needs
Largest - short stubby transv. processes
UV light
Cavities within the brain that make cerebral spinal fluid
Brain stem (cranio) & lateral horn of sacral S.C.

33. 4 forces on blood entering capillaries
Azygos System
Vaccination
Blood osmotic pressure - blood hydrostatic pressure
Makes up tendons

34. Sympathetic neurons come from...
Stretch receptors
Lateral horn of thoracic & Lumbar S.C.
Hole for spinal cord
Common illiac arteries

35. 3 parts of small intestine
Touch receptor in papillae
Longer refractory peroid
Duodenum - jejunum - ilium
Ability to grow

36. Blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Pulling fluid FROM interstitial spaces into the capillary/ highest at venule end of capillary (reabsorption)
Cells attack other cells
Death of tissue caused by blood blockage
Heaviest bone

37. C7
Raises arteriol pressure & lowers heartrate
Has B antiglutens
Puss filled cavity - must be drained
Vertebral prominence

38. Golgi tendon organ
Outside of long bones
Anterior and posterior tibial arteries
Protects against muscle/tendon tears
Paravertebral ganglions

39. periostial blood vessels
Located in sphenoid - houses the pituitary
Controls and regulates pituitary
Outside of long bones
Red bone marrow & thymus

40. Shaft of bone
Between arachnoid layer & pia mater - houses cerebral spinal fluid
Thalmus - hypothalmus & pituitary
Compact bone
Base of occipital bone

41. Foramen Magnum
Each gas exerts a partial pressure contributing to the total pressure of the air
Large hole at the base of occipital bone
No point of contact with any other bone
Outside of long bones

42. Thoracic duct drains into...
Branched off of Brachiocephalic - splits into internal & external
Attacks pathogens dissolved in body fluids
Superficial vein that starts at the lateral malleolous and dumps into the poplitial vein
Left subclavian vein

43. Natural active immunity
Setting a bone with a cast or splint
14
Hormones produced in hypothalmus & stored in (posterior) pituitary
When you get the disease and create antibodies against it

44. Starling's law of the capillaries
Osteon activity by way of calcium regulation
Capillaries to allow for gas and nutrient exchange
@ arteriol end of capillary blood colloidal osmotic pressure is higher than blood hydrostatic pressure - vice versa at the venus end
Chest pain - lack of blood to heart

45. Location of respiratory rate center in brain
Function of skin
Arteries
Diffusion
Medulla

46. Brachiocephalic Vein
Blood hydrostatic pressure
Located in sphenoid - houses the pituitary
Drains into Superior Vena Cava
Root of nose (top bridge)

47. Wormian bones (sutural bones)
Formation of bones
Found in sutures of the skull - saggital and lambdoidal
Air in pleural cavity
Growth and repair cell reproduction

48. Starlings law of the heart
Lymphatic tissue containing T's B's and macrophages
Cardiac muscle fibers will contract more forcefully when fibers are stretched (the more you fill it with blood the better force of contraction)
Superficial vein that starts anterior to the medial malleolous and dumps into the femoral vein
Calcitonin

49. Supplies blood to stomach - liver - pancread
Sum of all chemical reactions in the body
Vaccination
Celiac trunk
Pyloric sphincter

50. Metarteriole
Basilar artery
Connects arteriole/venule to a capillary
Amount of energy required to stick 2 molecules together
Avascular tissues - CNS - Red bone marrow or spleen