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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Thoracic duct
Associated with stress
Left side of arch - Vertebral Artery branches off of it
Main collecting duct for lymphatic system
Raises blood pressure/lowers heart rate

2. Merkels discs
Setting a bone with a cast or splint
Alveoli
In occiput
Located in epidermis

3. Meiosis
Reproductive cell division
Simple columnar epithelium
Superior Mesenteric Vein
Spidery middle layer of the meninges

4. Signs of skin cancer
ABCD - Asymmetry - Border - Color - Diameter
Perforin and lymphotoxin
Axis - dens is point of rotation
Drains into Subclavian - posterior triangle of neck

5. Highest pp of O2 is in...
Abdominal aorta
Produces T3 - T4 - Calcitonin
Great Saphenous Vein
Alveoli

6. Beyond the diaphragm aorta is called...
Cytoplasm inside each muscle fiber that contains mitochondria & myofibrils
Thin filament (contractile protein)
Depression in sphenoid bone that houses the pituitary
Abdominal aorta

7. Dalton's law of partial pressure
Water
Immature cell
Connects arteriole/venule to a capillary
Each gas exerts a partial pressure contributing to the total pressure of the air

8. Golgi tendon organ
Makes up lower part of nasal septum
Cervical & Lumbar
Produced by infected body cells - diffuse to non-effected cells to "interfere" with viral replication
Protects against muscle/tendon tears

9. Interferons
Occurs in forearm/ at distal radius
Produced by infected body cells - diffuse to non-effected cells to "interfere" with viral replication
Transverse - internal & externals
Childhood osteomalacia

10. Femoral artery becomes
Movement of water down the concentration gradient
Popliteal artery
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Almond shaped group of neurons in temporal lobe responsible for memory & emotional reaction

11. Secondary lymph organs
Posterior pituitary stores Oxytocin & ADH
Ridge that goes through the EOP
Spleen - lymph nodes
Reproductive cell division

12. Capillaries
Hepat Portal circulation
Touch receptor in papillae
Functional unit of the respiratory system
Lack of blood to an area - can cause hypoxia

13. Kellog's 'great lymph pump'
Used in tissue transplants to determine if the body will reject the tissue
Diaphragm
Myosin
Response is opposite of stimulus

14. Abcess
Facets for ribs - long sharp Spinous processes
Deepest of Abdominal muscles
Innervates diaphram
Puss filled cavity - must be drained

15. Highest pp of CO2 is in...
Muscles contract because the thin/thick filaments slide past eachother
Intracellular fluid
Branch into hepatic - gastric & splenic
L & R common iliacs

16. Pyramidal pathway
Veins 60% of blood at any one time
Motor pathway
Connect the brain & spinal cord
Sum of all chemical reactions in the body

17. 4 forces on blood entering capillaries
Located bleow thyroid - produces PTH
Air in pleural cavity
Blood osmotic pressure - blood hydrostatic pressure
Toward eachother

18. Type AB blood
Some movement in a joint
Closing of the fontanells of babies
Has no antiglutens (universal recipient)
Having immunity to a disease

19. Greater Saphenous vein
Separates cerebrum & cerebellum & contains tentorium cerebelli
Avascular tissues - CNS - Red bone marrow or spleen
Superficial vein that starts anterior to the medial malleolous and dumps into the femoral vein
Portal vein

20. Kinetic energy
Vomer & mandible
Movement
Transverse - internal & externals
Closing of the fontanells of babies

21. Surfactant
Touch receptors
From placenta/nursing (immunity given by someone else)
Coat alveolus and keep them from collapsing
Perforin and lymphotoxin

22. Popliteal artery becomes
Anterior and posterior tibial arteries
Gallbladder
Renal Artery
Swelling of lymphatic tissue @ L2 that brings lymph to Thoracic duct (left lymphatic duct)

23. osteon/Haversian system
Placenta & nursing
Arangement of compact bone
Frontal - Ethmoid - Maxillary - Sphenoid
Found in sutures of the skull - saggital and lambdoidal

24. Most common abnormal curve of spine
Ability to grow
Scoliosis
Serve organs - have more smooth muscle for vasodilation/constriction
Responsible for wakefulness

25. Structure that lines the abdominal cavity
In small intestines expands surface area to increase absorption of nutrients
Cervical & Lumbar
Peritoneum
Raises blood calcium

26. Villi
Arteries that supply organs and have to ability to vassoconstric/dilate
In small intestines expands surface area to increase absorption of nutrients
Passive process molecule moves down the concentration gradient (from highest to lowest concentration)
Stretch receptors

27. Foramen Magnum
Duodenum - jejunum - ilium
Osteons
Spleen
Large hole at the base of occipital bone

28. Sella turcica
Lowest pp CO2
Air in pleural cavity
Branch into hepatic - gastric & splenic
Located in sphenoid - houses the pituitary

29. Most common inorganic molecule
Skin - Connective Tissue - Aponeurosis - Loose connective tissue - Pericranuim
Responsible for wakefulness
Water
Frontal - Ethmoid - maxilla - sphenoid

30. Cysterna chyle
Jugular Vein
Inferior Mesenteric artery
Crystals in bone
Swelling of lymphatic tissue @ L2 that brings lymph to Thoracic duct (left lymphatic duct)

31. Osmosis
Movement of water down the concentration gradient
Increase surface area so more can be digested
Hormones produced in hypothalmus & stored in (posterior) pituitary
Muscles contract because the thin/thick filaments slide past eachother

32. 2 control systems of the body
Nervous and endocrine
Sacral & Thoracic
Anterior and posterior tibial arteries
Frontal - parietal - temporal occipital - ethmoid - sphenoid

33. Anamnestic
Fibular (peroneal) artery
Great Saphenous Vein
Hepatic vein
Being immune

34. 75% of inhalation done by...
Cell membrane
Left side of arch - Vertebral Artery branches off of it
Diaphragm
Cell membrane for each muscle fiber

35. Preferred site for a shot
Smooth muscle (cannot vasoconstrict)
Gluteus medius
Makes up tendons
Supply upper digestive track

36. Phospholipid tails point...
Water
Hormone produced by pineal gland
Toward eachother
Reproductive cell division

37. Lowest pp O2 is in...
Tissues
Binding of myosin to actin - powerstroke - rigor - unbinding - cocking of the myosin heads
Irritation of pleural cavity due to fluid build up
Cardiac muscle fibers will contract more forcefully when fibers are stretched (the more you fill it with blood the better force of contraction)

38. Major Histocompatibility complex (MHC)
Blood diverted to the liver from the digestive tract
Response enhances stimulus
Used in tissue transplants to determine if the body will reject the tissue
Produced in Parathyroid - raises calcium blood levels

39. Drains blood from the head
Blood in pleural cavity
Jugular Vein
Top part of face (attached to zygomatics)
Migrate to Thymus and mature

40. Brachiocephalic Vein
Blood pressure
Drains into Superior Vena Cava
Tissues
Enhance allergic - inflamatory & immune reactions

41. Crossbridges
Left side of arch - Vertebral Artery branches off of it
Delicate vascular inner layer of the meninges - indirect contact with the brain
No movement in joint (suture)
Myosin heads/bridge gaps btw thin/thick filaments

42. Neurohypophysis
Posterior pituitary stores Oxytocin & ADH
Has dens which articualtes with atlas
Located within and around joints for protection from pressure/ excess acceloration and deceloration
Ability to specialize cells

43. Secondary cardiac pump
Compress the abdomen
Movement
Skeletal muscles
Flexes vertebral column

44. Blood hydrostatic pressure
Communited fracture
Ascending - hepatic flexure - transverse - splenic flexure - descending - sigmoid - rectum - anus
How T lymphocytes attack
Inward movement of water fromblood stream into interstitial fluid / highest at arteriol end of capillary (filtration)

45. C1
Hepatic vein
Atlas - no body - no pedicle - no lamina - no SP
Arangement of compact bone
Responsible for wakefulness

46. Inorganic substance that makes bone hard
Alveoli
Anti-inflamitory produced by Adrenal Glands
Deep sleep
Calcium

47. Veins that form the inferior vena cava
Produced by adrenals - hold sodium & prevent dehydration
Perforin
L & R common iliacs
Response enhances stimulus

48. Where does interstitial fluid come from?
Sa node - av node - av bundle - bundle branches - conduction myofibers (Perkinje)
Blood
Skin - Connective Tissue - Aponeurosis - Loose connective tissue - Pericranuim
Back of hard palat of mouth

49. Palatine bones
Getting the disease and creating antibodies
Located within and around joints for protection from pressure/ excess acceloration and deceloration
Connect the brain & spinal cord
Back of hard palat of mouth

50. Muscular tube that exits kidneys
In nasal cavity cause air to swirl around
No movement in joint (suture)
Ureter
Closing of the fontanells of babies