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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Major Histocompatibility complex (MHC)
Back of hard palat of mouth
Accepts the weight of the body & transfers it to the foot
Used in tissue transplants to determine if the body will reject the tissue
Left subclavian vein

2. Largest mass of lymphatic tissue in body
Spleen
Arteries
Frontal - Ethmoid - Maxillary - Sphenoid
Contributes to oppostioi of thumb & pinki

3. Vein from liver to Vena Cava
Atrial depolarization
Hepatic vein
Ability to specialize cells
Each gas exerts it's own partial pressure that contributes to the total pressure of the gas

4. Femoral artery becomes
Associated with speech
Popliteal artery
Deep pressure sensors
Frontal - Ethmoid - maxilla - sphenoid

5. Muscular arteries
Make skin water resistance
Vertebral prominence
Spleen
Arteries that supply organs and have to ability to vassoconstric/dilate

6. Zygomatics bones
Produces T3 - T4 - Calcitonin
Muscles contract because the thin/thick filaments slide past eachother
Cheek bones
Cardiac muscle fibers will contract more forcefully when fibers are stretched (the more you fill it with blood the better force of contraction)

7. Supplies blood to Lg. intestines
Lymph nodes - spleen - liver
Inferior Mesenteric artery
External intercostals
Left and right coronary arteries

8. Organ that stores bile
Function of skin
Covers myosin binding sites on the actin molecules
Gallbladder
Branch into hepatic - gastric & splenic

9. Zone of primary ossification
Elderly person - at ankle joint - distal tibia
L & R common iliacs
Diaphysis
Popliteal artery

10. Dense connective tissue
Separates cerebrum & cerebellum & contains tentorium cerebelli
Innervates viscera - Major parasympathetic nerve in body
Makes up tendons
Gluteus maximus

11. Veins that dump into Inferior vena cava
Left side of arch - splits into internal and external
Calcium
Blood hydrostatic pressure
Renals and Hepatic veins

12. Antigen mediated immunity
Attacks pathogens dissolved in body fluids
Collagen
Develope in bone marrow
14

13. Paranasal sinuses
Vaccination
1st stage if inflamation
Frontal - Ethmoid - maxilla - sphenoid
Holes for spinal nerves to exit the vertebral column

14. Left Subclavian Artery
Intracellular fluid
Being immune
Abdominal aorta
Left side of arch - Vertebral Artery branches off of it

15. Smallest facial bone
Touch receptor in papillae
Lacrimal
Compress the abdomen
Keystone

16. Abdominal aorta splits at L4
Femoral artery @ inguinal ligament
Hormone of the skin
Jugular Vein
Common Illiacs

17. Highest pp of CO2 is in...
Intracellular fluid
Vena Cava & pulmonary veins
Ascending - Arch - Descending
Formed by 2 lamina coming together

18. Sacrum
Produced by thyroid gland maintains calcium homeostasis by lowering levels in blood
Superior Mesenteric Vein
Keystone
Scoliosis

19. Mitosis
Growth and repair cell reproduction
Drains into Superior Vena Cava
Thoracic vertebrae
Mass of repair tissue that bridges the end of a long bone

20. Callus
L & R common iliacs
Medulla
Motor pathway
Mass of repair tissue that bridges the end of a long bone

21. Meissner corpuscle
Blood
Used in tissue transplants to determine if the body will reject the tissue
Touch receptor in papillae
Connects arteriole/venule to a capillary

22. # of facial bones
Keystone
Red bone marrow & thymus
14
Articulate with C1 on either side of the Foramen Magnum

23. Nasal bones
Root of nose (top bridge)
Pubic bone
Intracellular fluid
Frontal - Ethmoid - maxilla - sphenoid

24. C2
Axis - dens is point of rotation
Solar plexus
Sa node - av node - av bundle - bundle branches - conduction myofibers (Perkinje)
Top part of face (attached to zygomatics)

25. Cranial bones
Renals and Hepatic veins
Thick filament (contractile protein)
Take blood back to heart
Frontal - parietal - temporal occipital - ethmoid - sphenoid

26. Merkel cells
Vertebral prominence
Touch receptors
Diaphragm
Blood colloidal osmotic pressure

27. Muscle spindles
Back of hard palat of mouth
Measure muscle length
Collagen
Associated with stress

28. Lameli
Frontal - Ethmoid - Maxillary - Sphenoid
Growth rings on cross section of bone
Capillaries to allow for gas and nutrient exchange
Lack of blood to an area - can cause hypoxia

29. Tropomyosin
Innervates viscera - Major parasympathetic nerve in body
Covers myosin binding sites on the actin molecules
Closing of the fontanells of babies
Lymph nodes - spleen - liver

30. At the venous end of capillaries which force predominates
Blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Drains into Superior Vena Cava
Hepat Portal circulation
Produced by thyroid - regulate metabolism

31. Largest - strongest muscle of the body
Appendix
Hormones produced in hypothalmus & stored in (posterior) pituitary
Produced by adrenals - hold sodium & prevent dehydration
Gluteus maximus

32. Sella turcica
Vagus 10
Tissues
Located in sphenoid - houses the pituitary
Vaccination

33. Pacinian/lamelated corpuscle
Main collecting duct for lymphatic system
Jugular Vein
Deep pressure sensors
Saggital - coronal squamous - lambdoidal

34. Compliment proteins
Bundle of overlapping thick & thin filaments
Has both A & B antiglutens (Universal Donor)
Deep pressure sensors
Enhance allergic - inflamatory & immune reactions

35. GTO
Myosin
Hole for spinal cord
Protects muscle & associated tendon from damage due to over stretch
Folds in the brain

36. Functions of arches of foot
Shock absorbtion - different terrain
Raises arteriol pressure & lowers heartrate
Located in the temporal bone
On palms and soles of feet

37. Natural active immunity
No movement in joint (suture)
Inferior Mesenteric artery
When you get the disease and create antibodies against it
Dorsal and plantar arteries of the foot

38. Petras portion of temporal bone
Transverse foramena
Relay center for all sensory information going in/out of brain
Houses the inner ear
Drains into Superior Vena Cava

39. Lowest pp CO2
Houses the inner ear
Midline of neck - scm - mandible
Alveoli
Atlas - no body - no pedicle - no lamina - no SP

40. Pneumothorax
Outer layer of the meninges
Skin - Connective Tissue - Aponeurosis - Loose connective tissue - Pericranuim
Air in pleural cavity
Jugular Vein

41. ___________ also in Alveoli
Cavities within the brain that make cerebral spinal fluid
Located in sphenoid - houses the pituitary
Lowest pp CO2
Hepatic vein

42. Synarthrosis
Right side of arch - becomes right subclavian artery & Right Common Carotid
No movement in joint (suture)
Diaphragm
Cardiac output - volume - periferal resistance

43. Norepinephrine in brain...
Spongy/cancellous bone
Manubrium - body - Xiphoid process
Blood
Responsible for wakefulness

44. Septal cells I(type II)
Rest
Movement
Supply diaphragm
Located on alveoli - prevent them from sticking together

45. Strongest - largest vertebrae
SCM - Trapezius - Clavicle
Lumbar vertebrae
Delicate vascular inner layer of the meninges - indirect contact with the brain
Bundle of overlapping thick & thin filaments

46. Common iliac veins form
Place on molecule where they attach to one another or something else
Paravertebral ganglions
Inferior vena cava
Connects pituitary & Hypothalmus

47. Supplies blood to the kidneys
Solar plexus
Renal Artery
CHON - Carbon - Hydrogen - Oxygen - Nitrogen
Accepts the weight of the body & transfers it to the foot

48. 1st major artery off of abdominal aorta is...
Also called adrenaline - produced by medulla of Adrenals
Drains into Brachiocephalic - In Anterior Triangle of neck
Celiac artery
Functional unit of the respiratory system

49. Sarcoplasm
Medial part of inside of eye
Cytoplasm inside each muscle fiber that contains mitochondria & myofibrils
Make surfactant in alveolus
Closing of the fontanells of babies

50. Perpendicular plate & vomer
Make up the nasal septum
On palms and soles of feet
Blood pressure
Largest - short stubby transv. processes