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Massage Certification: Human Body

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1. Medulla of Adrenals
Basilar artery
Arteries
Produce Epinephrine or adrenaline
Raises blood pressure/lowers heart rate

2. Delta waves
Bundle of overlapping thick & thin filaments
Regulatory proteins that ewnable muscle finers to start or stop contracting
Right subclavian vein
Deep sleep

3. Alpha brain waves
Located above heart - atrophies after puberty - assists in maturation of T cells
Intracellular fluid
Rest
Hormones produced in hypothalmus & stored in (posterior) pituitary

4. Cortex of Adrenals
Toward eachother
Produce Glucocorticoids - cortisol - mineralcorticoids - aldosterone - androgens
Veins
Drain into Subclavians

5. Muscular tube that exits kidneys
Migrate to Thymus and mature
When you get the disease and create antibodies against it
Ureter
Lacrimal

6. Pleurisy
Irritation of pleural cavity due to fluid build up
Diffusion
Blood from liver to the inferior vena cava
Used in tissue transplants to determine if the body will reject the tissue

7. Connects stomach & small intestine (duodenum)
Innervates viscera - Major parasympathetic nerve in body
Smooth muscle (cannot vasoconstrict)
Lowest pp CO2
Pyloric sphincter

8. Phospholipid tails point...
Toward eachother
Ability to grow
A section of each myofibril that is bordered on either side by z lines
Spongy/cancellous bone

9. Greater Saphenous vein
Depression in sphenoid bone that houses the pituitary
Superficial vein that starts anterior to the medial malleolous and dumps into the femoral vein
In occiput
Inferior Mesenteric artery

10. Aorta
Ascending - Arch - Descending
Growth and repair cell reproduction
Muscles contract because the thin/thick filaments slide past eachother
Freely moveable joint (all synovial)

11. Left Common Carotid artery
Left side of arch - splits into internal and external
On palms and soles of feet
Tissues
Jugular Vein

12. Endocrine
Function of skin
Lack of blood to an area - can cause hypoxia
All other bones of the skull (keystone)
Reproductive cell division

13. Contribut to movement of lymph
Contraction of muscle & respiratory pump
Dead tissue
Spidery middle layer of the meninges
Internal intercostals & Abs

14. Order of colon
Ascending - hepatic flexure - transverse - splenic flexure - descending - sigmoid - rectum - anus
Smooth muscle (cannot vasoconstrict)
Arteries
Produced by thyroid - regulate metabolism

15. Epiphysis of bone
Thoracic vertebrae
Spongy/cancellous bone
Lacrimal
Take blood back to heart

16. Metabolism
Sum of all chemical reactions in the body
Hormones produced in hypothalmus & stored in (posterior) pituitary
Cell membrane
Veins 60% of blood at any one time

17. Jugular foramen
Raises arteriol pressure & lowers heartrate
Medial aspect of temporal lobe of brain
Located in the temporal bone
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18. Action of all abdominals
Celiac trunk
Compress the abdomen
Each gas exerts it's own partial pressure that contributes to the total pressure of the gas
Keystone

19. Organs that have a hilus
From placenta/nursing (immunity given by someone else)
Flexes vertebral column
Lymph nodes - lungs - spleen
Thoracic vertebrae

20. Part of the venous circulation of the leg - used in bypass surgury
UV light
Outer layer of the meninges
Phrenic
Great Saphenous Vein

21. Carries deO2 blood from r. ventricle to the lungs
Pulmonary arteries
Located on alveoli - prevent them from sticking together
Medulla
Vertebral prominence

22. Vertebral arteries form...
In nasal cavity cause air to swirl around
Basilar artery
Normal wakefulness
Facets for ribs - long sharp Spinous processes

23. Lacteals
Response enhances stimulus
1st stage if inflamation
Pick up dietary fats and transport them to cysterna chyle
Produces T3 - T4 - Calcitonin

24. Dalton's law of partial pressure
Each gas exerts a partial pressure contributing to the total pressure of the air
Cell membrane for each muscle fiber
Muscle cells named for their elongated shape and multinucleated
Vagus 10

25. Crossbridges
Blood in pleural cavity
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Caps the brain
Myosin heads/bridge gaps btw thin/thick filaments

26. Synarthrosis
Hormones produced in hypothalmus & stored in (posterior) pituitary
Blood from liver to the inferior vena cava
No movement in joint (suture)
Femoral artery @ inguinal ligament

27. Vitamin D
Hormone of the skin
Left side of arch - Vertebral Artery branches off of it
Bundle of overlapping thick & thin filaments
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28. Potts fracture
Anterior and posterior tibial arteries
Drain into Subclavians
For blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Elderly person - at ankle joint - distal tibia

29. ECG "P" wave
Medial part of inside of eye
Junctions btw blood vessels serving the same organ
Prevertebral ganglions
Atrial depolarization

30. Sympathetic chain
Bundle of individual muscle fibers (cells)
14
Back of hard palat of mouth
Paravertebral ganglions

31. Hypothalmus
Water
Formation of bones
Blood colloidal osmotic pressure
Controls and regulates pituitary

32. Hyoid bone
Pick up fat and bring back to CV system via lymphatics
Manubrium - body - Xiphoid process
Keystone
No point of contact with any other bone

33. Shaft of bone
Mass of neural tissue that develops into dorsal root ganglia
25
Compact bone
Lighten skull - voice production - resonate sound

34. Villi
In small intestines expands surface area to increase absorption of nutrients
Folds in the brain
Childhood osteomalacia
Heaviest bone

35. Artificial active immunity
Motor pathway
Located within and around joints for protection from pressure/ excess acceloration and deceloration
Develope in bone marrow
Vaccination

36. Oxytocin & ADH
Develope in bone marrow
Getting the disease and creating antibodies
Valve between ilium & cecum of lg intestines
Hormones produced in hypothalmus & stored in (posterior) pituitary

37. Motor neurons come from...
Located in the spleen - in the red pulp - remove old RBC's - store platelets - hemopoiesis in fetus
Suprarenal Glands
Anterior grey horn of S.C.
Crystals in bone

38. Structure that lines the abdominal cavity
Arteries
Connects a capillary and a venule
Nervous and endocrine
Peritoneum

39. Abcess
Some movement in a joint
Being immune
Lymph nodules in ileum of sm. intestines
Puss filled cavity - must be drained

40. Spinous processes
Cavities within the brain that make cerebral spinal fluid
8
Abdominal aorta
Formed by 2 lamina coming together

41. Nasal bones
Simple columnar epithelium
Root of nose (top bridge)
Intracellular fluid
Thin filament (contractile protein)

42. Jugular Vein (external)
Duodenum - jejunum - ilium
Drains into Subclavian - posterior triangle of neck
Right subclavian vein
Myosin

43. Haversian canals
Keystone
Lack of blood to an area - can cause hypoxia
Kidneys and pancreas
In osseous tissue - where nerves & blood vessels are found

44. Calcitonin
Located within and around joints for protection from pressure/ excess acceloration and deceloration
Lowers blood calcium
Produced in Parathyroid - raises calcium blood levels
Inward movement of water fromblood stream into interstitial fluid / highest at arteriol end of capillary (filtration)

45. Stages of Phagocytosis
In small intestines expands surface area to increase absorption of nutrients
Medial aspect of temporal lobe of brain
Chemotaxis - adhesion - ingestion - lysis - ejection
Facets for ribs - long sharp Spinous processes

46. Femur
Tissues
Produced in Parathyroid - raises calcium blood levels
Facets for ribs - long sharp Spinous processes
Heaviest bone

47. Packed Cell transfusion
Renals and Hepatic veins
Most commom blood transfusion
When you get the disease and create antibodies against it
Located in the temporal bone

48. Infundibulum
Superficial vein that starts anterior to the medial malleolous and dumps into the femoral vein
Connects pituitary & Hypothalmus
Blood
Childhood osteomalacia

49. Pressure resevoir
Produced by infected body cells - diffuse to non-effected cells to "interfere" with viral replication
Arteries
Serve organs - have more smooth muscle for vasodilation/constriction
Myosin

50. Androgens
Hepatic vein
Produced by adrenals - form male/female sex characteristics
Sacral & Thoracic
Superficial vein that starts at the lateral malleolous and dumps into the poplitial vein