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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Motor neurons come from...
Myosin heads
Functional unit of the respiratory system
Anterior grey horn of S.C.
Most mobile & largest

2. Shattered bone
Make surfactant in alveolus
Arteries
Main collecting duct for lymphatic system
Communited fracture

3. Difference between DNA & RNA
Cervical & Lumbar
Presence of thymine in DNA not RNA
Appendix
Sacral & Thoracic

4. Projection fibers
Water
External intercostals
Drains into Superior Vena Cava
Connect the brain & spinal cord

5. Myosin
Facets for ribs - long sharp Spinous processes
Thick filament (contractile protein)
Held by billroths rods
External intercostals

6. Sacrum
No point of contact with any other bone
Keystone
Located in sphenoid - houses the pituitary
Capillaries to allow for gas and nutrient exchange

7. Inorganic substance that makes bone hard
Avascular tissues - CNS - Red bone marrow or spleen
Growth and repair cell reproduction
Toward eachother
Calcium

8. Ossification completes by age
25
Sum of all chemical reactions in the body
Gallbladder
Holes for spinal nerves to exit the vertebral column

9. Muscle spindles
Place on molecule where they attach to one another or something else
Blood osmotic pressure - blood hydrostatic pressure
Measure muscle length
Freely moveable joint (all synovial)

10. Cerebellum
Connects a capillary and a venule
Caps the brain
Superficial vein on the ulnar side of the arm dump into the brachial vein
Irritation of the plural cavity by build up of extra fluid

11. periostial blood vessels
Outside of long bones
Take blood back to heart
Bundle of overlapping thick & thin filaments
Amount of energy required to stick 2 molecules together

12. Recieves impulses for smell
Medial aspect of temporal lobe of brain
Produced by thyroid gland maintains calcium homeostasis by lowering levels in blood
Cell membrane for each muscle fiber
Cell membrane

13. Abdominal aorta splits at L4
External intercostals
Valve between stomach & duodenum
Common Illiacs
Lacrimal

14. Goblet cells
Protects muscle & associated tendon from damage due to over stretch
Response is opposite of stimulus
Line stomach - produce mucus & heparin
Diaphysis

15. Thymus Gland
Medial part of inside of eye
Located above heart - atrophies after puberty - assists in maturation of T cells
Front of leg
Motor pathway

16. Fastest flow of blood
Measure muscle length
Chyme
Arteries
Inferior vena cava

17. Parts of the Sternum
Manubrium - body - Xiphoid process
All other bones of the skull (keystone)
Pick up dietary fats and transport them to cysterna chyle
Cardiac output - volume - periferal resistance

18. Potts fracture
Elderly person - at ankle joint - distal tibia
Myosin heads/bridge gaps btw thin/thick filaments
Arteries
Originate on axial skeleton

19. Major Histocompatibility complex (MHC)
Elderly person - at ankle joint - distal tibia
Used in tissue transplants to determine if the body will reject the tissue
Vena Cava & pulmonary veins
Growth and repair cell reproduction

20. Dalton's law of partial pressure
Each gas exerts a partial pressure contributing to the total pressure of the air
Most commom blood transfusion
Ability to respond to stimuli
Front of leg

21. Food reduced to it's liquid state
Located above heart - atrophies after puberty - assists in maturation of T cells
Most abundant cell in epidermis
Used in tissue transplants to determine if the body will reject the tissue
Chyme

22. Rickets
Left and right coronary arteries
Connects pituitary & Hypothalmus
Communited fracture
Childhood osteomalacia

23. Anterior Triangle of neck
Diaphragm
Appendix
Midline of neck - scm - mandible
Femoral artery @ inguinal ligament

24. Parasympathetic nerve to abdomin
Ability to specialize cells
Blood diverted to the liver from the digestive tract
Abdominal aorta
Vagus 10

25. Adrenal glands
Mass of repair tissue that bridges the end of a long bone
When you get the disease and create antibodies against it
Suprarenal Glands
Muscles contract because the thin/thick filaments slide past eachother

26. Phrenic nerve
Lateral horn of thoracic & Lumbar S.C.
Innervates diaphram
Frontal - temporal - parietal - occipital
Outer layer of the meninges

27. Arachnoid
When you get the disease and create antibodies against it
Supply diaphragm
Spidery middle layer of the meninges
Mentalis

28. Net filtration
Blood hydrostatic pressure - blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Left side of arch - Vertebral Artery branches off of it
Raises blood pressure/lowers heart rate
Popliteal artery

29. Active site
How T lymphocytes attack
Longer refractory peroid
Renals and Hepatic veins
Place on molecule where they attach to one another or something else

30. All ribs articulate with...
Drains into Brachiocephalic - In Anterior Triangle of neck
Articulate with C1 on either side of the Foramen Magnum
Intracellular fluid
Costal cartilage

31. PTH
Produced in Parathyroid - raises calcium blood levels
Superficial vein on the ulnar side of the arm dump into the brachial vein
Lowest pp CO2
Articulate with C1 on either side of the Foramen Magnum

32. Gyri
Epiphysis
Folds in the brain
Diffusion
Veins

33. C7
Inferior vena cava
Anchors nuchal ligament
Pulmonary veins
Diaphragm

34. Pineal Gland
Controls sleep cycle
Functional unit of the respiratory system
Cardiac output - volume - periferal resistance
Internal intercostals & Abs

35. Radiant energy
Has A antiglutens
Released energy
Makes up tendons
Develope in bone marrow

36. Calcitonin & PTH effect
Childhood osteomalacia
Most commom blood transfusion
Osteon activity by way of calcium regulation
Capillaries

37. Muscular arteries
Arteries that supply organs and have to ability to vassoconstric/dilate
14
Diaphragm
Suprarenal Glands

38. Sella turcica
Sum of all chemical reactions in the body
Located in sphenoid - houses the pituitary
Ridge that goes through the EOP
Mass of neural tissue that develops into dorsal root ganglia

39. Paranasal sinuses
Located bleow thyroid - produces PTH
Frontal - Ethmoid - maxilla - sphenoid
Amount of energy required to stick 2 molecules together
Appendix

40. Palatine bones
Back of hard palat of mouth
Deep sleep
Hormone of the skin
Calcium

41. Spleen tissue type
Celiac trunk
Red & white pulp
Closing of the fontanells of babies
Make surfactant in alveolus

42. Septal cells I(type II)
Mass of neural tissue that develops into dorsal root ganglia
Has both A & B antiglutens (Universal Donor)
Located on alveoli - prevent them from sticking together
CHON - Carbon - Hydrogen - Oxygen - Nitrogen

43. Where does interstitial fluid come from?
Blood
Lack of blood to an area - can cause hypoxia
Femoral artery @ inguinal ligament
Lowest pp CO2

44. Differentiation
Ability to specialize cells
Blood in pleural cavity
Pyloric sphincter
Protects muscle & associated tendon from damage due to over stretch

45. Detours venous blood from GI organs & spleen thru liver before returning it to the heart
Dead tissue
Hepat Portal circulation
Midline of neck - scm - mandible
Swelling of lymphatic tissue @ L2 that brings lymph to Thoracic duct (left lymphatic duct)

46. Facilitated diffusion
Medulla - pons - mid brain
Root of nose (top bridge)
Appendix
Molecule aided by a carrier molecule (PASSIVE)

47. posterior triangle of neck
Thoracic vertebrae
Right side of arch - becomes right subclavian artery & Right Common Carotid
SCM - Trapezius - Clavicle
8

48. 5 factors that push blood in veins back to heart
Occurs in forearm/ at distal radius
Amount of energy required to stick 2 molecules together
Pressure - flow - valves - muscle pump - respiratory pump
Only movable facial bone

49. Greater Saphenous vein
Superficial vein that starts anterior to the medial malleolous and dumps into the femoral vein
Associated with stress
Calcitonin
Axis - dens is point of rotation

50. Artificial active immunity
Frontal - parietal - temporal occipital - ethmoid - sphenoid
How T lymphocytes attack
Suprarenal Glands
Vaccination