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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Lower esophageal sphincter
Cheek bones
Blood in pleural cavity
Increase surface area so more can be digested
Between stomach & espohagus

2. posterior triangle of neck
Femoral artery @ inguinal ligament
Ventricular repolarization
Largest - short stubby transv. processes
SCM - Trapezius - Clavicle

3. Meiosis
Frontal - parietal - temporal occipital - ethmoid - sphenoid
Reproductive cell division
No movement in joint (suture)
Ability to respond to stimuli

4. Positive feedback system
Ridge that goes through the EOP
Has A antiglutens
Response enhances stimulus
Take blood back to heart

5. Keritinocytes
Presence of thymine in DNA not RNA
Separates cerebrum & cerebellum & contains tentorium cerebelli
Cytoplasm inside each muscle fiber that contains mitochondria & myofibrils
Most abundant cell in epidermis

6. Primary Vertebral Curves
Ventricular depolarization
Saggital - coronal squamous - lambdoidal
Sacral & Thoracic
Also called adrenaline - produced by medulla of Adrenals

7. Troponin/Tropomyosin
Regulatory proteins that ewnable muscle finers to start or stop contracting
Crystals in bone
Arteries
Popliteal artery

8. # of facial bones
Lighten skull - voice production - resonate sound
Immature cell
Folds in the brain
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9. Mitosis
From placenta/nursing (immunity given by someone else)
Holes for spinal nerves to exit the vertebral column
Stored energy
Growth and repair cell reproduction

10. Supplies blood to stomach - liver - pancread
Located bleow thyroid - produces PTH
Celiac trunk
Internal intercostals & Abs
Skeletal muscles

11. Starling's law of the capillaries
@ arteriol end of capillary blood colloidal osmotic pressure is higher than blood hydrostatic pressure - vice versa at the venus end
Liver
Inferior vena cava
Perforin and lymphotoxin

12. Metarteriol
Make skin water resistance
Connects a capillary and a venule
Ureter
Growth and repair cell reproduction

13. Stems cell
Antibody injection
Junctions btw blood vessels serving the same organ
Immature cell
SCM - Trapezius - Clavicle

14. Vein from liver to Vena Cava
Hepatic vein
Secum - ascending colon - hepatic flexor - transverse colon - splenic flexor - descending colon - sigmoid colon - rectum
Hormones produced in hypothalmus & stored in (posterior) pituitary
Occipital bone

15. Zone of primary ossification
Bundle of individual muscle fibers (cells)
Diaphysis
Top part of face (attached to zygomatics)
Basilar artery

16. NK cells release...
Solar plexus
Childhood osteomalacia
Reproductive cell division
Perforin

17. Vitamin D synthesis needs
Transverse - internal & externals
Produced by thyroid - regulate metabolism
Most moveable bone of the skull
UV light

18. Abdominal massage
Spidery middle layer of the meninges
Raises blood pressure/lowers heart rate
Bundle of overlapping thick & thin filaments
Mass of neural tissue that develops into dorsal root ganglia

19. Major Histocompatibility complex (MHC)
Communited fracture
Used in tissue transplants to determine if the body will reject the tissue
Passive process molecule moves down the concentration gradient (from highest to lowest concentration)
Sum of all chemical reactions in the body

20. Pia mater
Sum of all chemical reactions in the body
Delicate vascular inner layer of the meninges - indirect contact with the brain
Carbon
Arteries

21. Transverse Colon
Ridge that goes through the EOP
Brachial Artery
Increase surface area so more can be digested
Most mobile & largest

22. Jugular Vein (external)
Drains into Subclavian - posterior triangle of neck
Being immune
Touch receptors
Functional unit of the respiratory system

23. Drains most of the thorax - used as a bypass to the Inferior Vena Cava
Azygos System
All other bones of the skull (keystone)
Anastomoses connecting the cephalic and basilic veins
Associated with stress

24. Phospholipid bilayer
Basilar artery
Cell membrane
Innervates viscera - Major parasympathetic nerve in body
Arteries

25. Thoracic duct
Passive process molecule moves down the concentration gradient (from highest to lowest concentration)
Blood
Arteries
Main collecting duct for lymphatic system

26. Paranasal sinuses
Spidery middle layer of the meninges
Located above heart - atrophies after puberty - assists in maturation of T cells
Anti-inflamitory produced by Adrenal Glands
Frontal - Ethmoid - Maxillary - Sphenoid

27. perforin & lymphotoxin
How T lymphocytes attack
Most commom blood transfusion
Junctions between blood vessels serving the same organ - if blood supply is cut off from one place it is rerouted.
Toward eachother

28. Spleen tissue type
Serve organs - have more smooth muscle for vasodilation/constriction
Almond shaped group of neurons in temporal lobe responsible for memory & emotional reaction
Produces T3 - T4 - Calcitonin
Red & white pulp

29. 2 control systems of the body
Hormones produced in hypothalmus & stored in (posterior) pituitary
Secum - ascending colon - hepatic flexor - transverse colon - splenic flexor - descending colon - sigmoid colon - rectum
Each gas exerts it's own partial pressure that contributes to the total pressure of the gas
Nervous and endocrine

30. Muscle of forced expiration
Great Saphenous Vein
In occiput
Internal intercostals & Abs
Outside of long bones

31. Difference between DNA & RNA
Covers myosin binding sites on the actin molecules
Red & white pulp
Presence of thymine in DNA not RNA
Phrenic

32. Common iliac veins form
Costal cartilage
Common Illiac Arteries
Hepatic vein
Inferior vena cava

33. Paranasal sinuses
Valve between ilium & cecum of lg intestines
Frontal - Ethmoid - maxilla - sphenoid
Medulla
Controls and regulates pituitary

34. Phospholipid tails point...
Blood hydrostatic pressure - blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Having immunity to a disease
Toward eachother
Attaches to corners of mouth

35. Most common inorganic molecule
Cytoplasm inside each muscle fiber that contains mitochondria & myofibrils
Basal cell carcinoma
Make skin water resistance
Water

36. Rickets
Deep pressure sensors
Childhood osteomalacia
Protects against muscle/tendon tears
Formation of bones

37. Supplies blood to Lg. intestines
1st stage if inflamation
Produced by thyroid - regulate metabolism
Inferior Mesenteric artery
Setting a bone with a cast or splint

38. Filtration
Childhood osteomalacia
When you get the disease and create antibodies against it
Pressure - flow - valves - muscle pump - respiratory pump
Pushing the molecule thru the membrane (PASSIVE)

39. Petras portion of temporal bone
Diaphragm
Raises blood calcium
In osseous tissue - where nerves & blood vessels are found
Houses the inner ear

40. 96% of all elements in body
CHON - Carbon - Hydrogen - Oxygen - Nitrogen
Response is opposite of stimulus
Myosin
1st stage if inflamation

41. Cranial bones
Connects pituitary & Hypothalmus
A section of each myofibril that is bordered on either side by z lines
Frontal - parietal - temporal occipital - ethmoid - sphenoid
(Adenohypophysis) produces 7 hormones

42. Highest pp CO2 in...
Intracellular fluid
Valve between ilium & cecum of lg intestines
L & R common iliacs
Gallbladder

43. sSpleen
Veins
Appendix
Superficial vein that starts anterior to the medial malleolous and dumps into the femoral vein
Held by billroths rods

44. Anamestic
Ureter
Having immunity to a disease
Being immune
Controls sleep cycle

45. Renal arteries arrise from
Innervates diaphram
Abdominal aorta
Diaphragm
Dead tissue

46. Packed Cell transfusion
Having immunity to a disease
Most commom blood transfusion
Located in the temporal bone
Holes for spinal nerves to exit the vertebral column

47. Pineal Gland
Controls sleep cycle
Superficial vein on the ulnar side of the arm dump into the brachial vein
Vertebral prominence
Separates cerebrum & cerebellum & contains tentorium cerebelli

48. White pulp

49. Crista galli & cribiform plate
Separates cerebrum & cerebellum & contains tentorium cerebelli
Diaphragm
Located in Ethmoid
Has both A & B antiglutens (Universal Donor)

50. Calcitonin
Immature cell
Puss filled cavity - must be drained
Lowers blood calcium
Connects pituitary & Hypothalmus