11 ORGAN SYSTEM OF THE BODY Flashcards
Protects body; helps regulate body temperature; eliminates some wastes; helps make vitamin D; detects sensations such as touch, pain, warmth, and cold; stores fat and provides insulation.
INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM
Components: Skin and associated structures, such as hair, fingernails and toenails, sweat glands, and oil glands.
INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM
Supports and protects body; provides surface area for muscle attachments; aids body movements; houses cells that produce blood cells; stores minerals and lipids (fats).
SKELETAL SYSTEM
Bones and joints of the body and their associated cartilages.
SKELETAL SYSTEM
Participates in body movements, such as walking; maintains posture; produces heat.
MUSCULAR SYSTEM
Components: Specifically, skeletal muscle tissue—muscle usually attached to bones (other muscle tissues include smooth and cardiac).
MUSCULAR SYSTEM
Generates action potentials (nerve impulses) to regulate body activities; detects changes in body’s internal and external environments, interprets changes, and responds by causing muscular contractions or glandular secretions.
NERVOUS SYSTEM
Components: Brain, spinal cord, nerves, and special sense organs, such as eyes and ears.
NERVOUS SYSTEM
Regulates body activities by releasing hormones (chemical messengers transported in blood from endocrine gland or tissue to target organ).
ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
Components: Hormone-producing glands (pineal gland, hypothalamus, pituitary gland, thymus, thyroid gland, parathyroid glands, adrenal glands, pancreas, ovaries, and testes) and hormone-producing cells in several other organs.
ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
Heart pumps blood through blood vessels; blood carries oxygen and nutrients to cells and carbon dioxide and wastes away from cells and helps regulate acid–base balance, temperature, and water content of body fluids; blood components help defend against disease and repair damaged blood vessels.
CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
Components: Blood, heart, and blood vessels.
CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
Returns proteins and fluid to blood; carries lipids from gastrointestinal tract to blood; contains sites of maturation and proliferation of B cells and T cells that protect against disease causing microbes.
LYMPHATIC SYSTEM
Components: Lymphatic fluid and vessels; spleen, thymus, lymph nodes, and tonsils; cells that carry out immune responses (B cells, T cells, and others).
LYMPHATIC SYSTEM
Transfers oxygen from inhaled air to blood and carbon dioxide from blood to exhaled air; helps regulate acid–base balance of body fluids; air flowing out of lungs through vocal cords produces sounds.
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
