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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Radiant energy
Vomer & mandible
Connects pituitary & Hypothalmus
Uses ATP by membrane
Released energy

2. Sarcoplasmic Reticulum
Left and right coronary arteries
Closing of the fontanells of babies
Surrounds each myofibril & stores & releases Ca+ when muscle cell is stimulated to contract
Sacral & Thoracic

3. Organs that have a hilus
Left side of arch - Vertebral Artery branches off of it
Make up the nasal septum
Hormones produced in hypothalmus & stored in (posterior) pituitary
Lymph nodes - lungs - spleen

4. No lymph capillaries
Avascular tissue - CNS - red bone marrow & spleen
Mandible
Enhance allergic - inflamatory & immune reactions
Pulmonary veins

5. Perpendicular plate & vomer
Superficial vein that starts anterior to the medial malleolous and dumps into the femoral vein
Surrounds each myofibril & stores & releases Ca+ when muscle cell is stimulated to contract
Located bleow thyroid - produces PTH
Make up the nasal septum

6. Myosin
Scoliosis
Supply diaphragm
Thick filament (contractile protein)
Transverse foramena

7. Kellog's 'great lymph pump'
Diaphragm
Manubrium - body - Xiphoid process
Lumbar vertebrae
Bundle of overlapping thick & thin filaments

8. Veins
Solar plexus
Inferior Mesenteric artery
Take blood back to heart
Popliteal artery

9. Abdominal massage
Manubrium - body - Xiphoid process
Carotid arteries
Diaphysis
Raises arteriol pressure & lowers heartrate

10. Lowest pp O2 is in...
Each gas exerts it's own partial pressure that contributes to the total pressure of the gas
Thalmus - hypothalmus & pituitary
Tissues
Interstitial fluid comes from blood plasma @ arteriol end - at venus end it returns to the blood

11. Organ that stores bile
Supply upper digestive track
Gallbladder
Perforin and lymphotoxin
Lymph nodes - spleen - liver

12. Nasal bones
Root of nose (top bridge)
Epicardium
Arangement of compact bone
Myosin

13. Type B blood
Has A antiglutens
Root of nose (top bridge)
Almond shaped group of neurons in temporal lobe responsible for memory & emotional reaction
Back of leg

14. Dura mater
Calcitonin
No body - no spinous processes
Transverse foramena
Outer layer of the meninges

15. Secondary cardiac pump
Lack of blood to an area - can cause hypoxia
Skeletal muscles
Removes RBC - WBC - stores platelets
Irritation of the plural cavity by build up of extra fluid

16. Pyramidal pathway
Outer layer of the meninges
Covers myosin binding sites on the actin molecules
Vertebral prominence
Motor pathway

17. Anterior pituitary
(Adenohypophysis) produces 7 hormones
Ventricular repolarization
Base of occipital bone
Ability to respond to stimuli

18. Androgens
Produced by adrenals - form male/female sex characteristics
In occiput
Sacral & Thoracic
Lymphatic nodules at junction of oral cavity & pharynx

19. Artificial active immunity
Vaccination
1st stage if inflamation
On palms and soles of feet
Interstitial fluid comes from blood plasma @ arteriol end - at venus end it returns to the blood

20. Passive artificial immunity
Antibody injection
Death of tissue caused by blood blockage
Red & white pulp
Bundle of overlapping thick & thin filaments

21. Capillaries
Blood hydrostatic pressure
Accepts the weight of the body & transfers it to the foot
Lack of blood to an area - can cause hypoxia
Functional unit of the respiratory system

22. Vomer bone
Makes up lower part of nasal septum
Connect the brain & spinal cord
Intracellular fluid
Raises blood calcium

23. Superior mesenteric arteries
Binding of myosin to actin - powerstroke - rigor - unbinding - cocking of the myosin heads
Blood
Supply upper digestive track
Alveoli

24. Blood resevoirs
Cells attack other cells
Heaviest bone
L & R common iliacs
Veins 60% of blood at any one time

25. median cubital arch
Blood in pleural cavity
Increase surface area so more can be digested
Anastomoses connecting the cephalic and basilic veins
NOT part of the osteon

26. Retroperiteneal organs
Blood
Air in pleural cavity
Kidneys and pancreas
Collagen

27. Goblet cells
Line stomach - produce mucus & heparin
Attraction of water to blood
Top part of face (attached to zygomatics)
Large hole at the base of occipital bone

28. Thymus has
Hasselmans corpuscles
Nervous and endocrine
Diaphragm
Interstitial fluid comes from blood plasma @ arteriol end - at venus end it returns to the blood

29. Sella turcica
Protects against muscle/tendon tears
From placenta/nursing (immunity given by someone else)
Lowest pp CO2
Depression in sphenoid bone that houses the pituitary

30. 4 lobes of the brain
Frontal - temporal - parietal - occipital
Veins 60% of blood at any one time
Root of nose (top bridge)
How T lymphocytes attack

31. Pneumothorax
Hepatic vein
Air in pleural cavity
Formed by 2 lamina coming together
Stored energy

32. 5 factors that push blood in veins back to heart
Drains into Brachiocephalic
Superficial vein on the radial side of the arm dump into the axillary vein
L & R common iliacs
Pressure - flow - valves - muscle pump - respiratory pump

33. Food reduced to it's liquid state
Large hole at the base of occipital bone
Reproductive cell division
Chyme
Solar plexus

34. Processof exchange in capillary beds
Diffusion
Great Saphenous Vein
Shock absorbtion - different terrain
Antibody injection

35. Major Histocompatibility complex (MHC)
Outside of long bones
Hormone of the skin
Located in Ethmoid
Used in tissue transplants to determine if the body will reject the tissue

36. Bony landmarks of anterior neck
Removes RBC - WBC - stores platelets
Diaphragm
ABCD - Asymmetry - Border - Color - Diameter
7 cervical vertebrae - Hyoid bone - Thyroid Cartilage - Cricoid Cartilage - Carotid Tubercle

37. veins that have no valves
Red & white pulp
Lymph nodes - lungs - spleen
Vena Cava & pulmonary veins
Medial aspect of temporal lobe of brain

38. Takes food to the tummy
Enhance allergic - inflamatory & immune reactions
Espohagus
Superficial vein that starts at the lateral malleolous and dumps into the poplitial vein
Vena Cava & pulmonary veins

39. Cortex of Adrenals
Produce Glucocorticoids - cortisol - mineralcorticoids - aldosterone - androgens
Between stomach & espohagus
Fibular (peroneal) artery
Alveoli

40. 3 parts of small intestine
Duodenum - jejunum - ilium
8
Dead tissue
Thick filament (contractile protein)

41. Ventricles
Spidery middle layer of the meninges
Cavities within the brain that make cerebral spinal fluid
Thoracic vertebrae
Communited fracture

42. Largest mass of lymphatic tissue in body
Spleen
Migrate to Thymus and mature
Anti-inflamitory produced by Adrenal Glands
Lymphatic tissue containing T's B's and macrophages

43. Conjestive Heart failure (CHF)
Moves tropomyosin aside & exposes myosin binding sites when Ca+ is released
Great Saphenous Vein
Binding of myosin to actin - powerstroke - rigor - unbinding - cocking of the myosin heads
Fluid build up in lower extremily - right side of heart death - fluid build up in lungs - left side of heart death

44. # of bones in skull
External intercostals
Great Saphenous Vein
(Adenohypophysis) produces 7 hormones
22

45. Aorta
Celiac artery
Contraction of muscle & respiratory pump
Ascending - Arch - Descending
Located in Sphenoid

46. C2/axis
Longer refractory peroid
Migrate to Thymus and mature
Pubic bone
Has dens which articualtes with atlas

47. At the arteriol end of the capillary which force predominates
Blood hydrostatic pressure
Protects against muscle/tendon tears
Arteries
Blood from liver to the inferior vena cava

48. Sphenoid articulates with...
Celiac artery
All other bones of the skull (keystone)
Phrenic
When you get the disease and create antibodies against it

49. Parasympathetic nerve to abdomin
UV light
Vagus 10
Raises blood pressure/lowers heart rate
Red bone marrow & thymus

50. Pineal Gland
Controls sleep cycle
Perforin
Produced by thyroid gland maintains calcium homeostasis by lowering levels in blood
Internal intercostals & Abs