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What does the thoracic cavity contain?

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The heart, lungs and esophagus.

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What are the four body cavities?

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Cranial, spinal, thoracic, and abdominal.

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What does the abdominal cavity contain?

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The liver, stomach, pancreas, spleen, kidneys, bladder, small and large intestine, and reproductive organs.

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What’s another name for reproductive organs?

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Gonads

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What is the heart/lungs/intestines also called?

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Visceral organs

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What is a system?

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A group of structures which function together as a unit to preform a job for the body

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In order name the divisions of systems

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Systems, organs, tissues, cells

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What are the organs of the circulatory system?

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Heart, arteries,veins, capillaries

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Which of these…the arteries or veins, carry the blood away from the heart?

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The arteries carry blood away, the veins carry blood too the heart.

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What is the body’s ‘defense system’ against bacteria and sickness?

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The immune system

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Where are white blood cells produced abs where do they mature?

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Bone marrow and they mature in bone marrow and thymus gland

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What system provides the body tissues with oxygen and to remove carbon dioxide?

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Respiratory system.

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What is the passage that air takes when it’s breathed in?

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Nose, nasal passages, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchial tubes, and lungs

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What is alveoli?

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The thin walked air sacs at the end of the bronchial tubes in the lungs

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What system makes a path through the thoracic abs abdominal system and the small intestine.

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Digestive system

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What is the alimentary canal?

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A 20 ft long tube leading from the mouth till the ‘waste bucket’

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What is the large intestine also known as?

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The colon

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What system provides a number if openings the through which waste materials are gotten rid of

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The excretory system

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What is the tube which connects the bladder to the outside of the body?

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The urethra

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What system coordinates the activities of the body?

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The nervous system

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What is the most important organ of the nervous system

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The brain

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What are ‘chemical messengers’?

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Hormones

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What is the system called that produces hormones?

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The endocrine system

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What is the system that contains the largest organ?

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Integumentary system

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How many bones approx. are there in our body?

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206

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What is the system that contains our bones abs ligaments called?

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Skeletal system

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What is he system that is responsible for the moving of the body…with voluntary abs involuntary muscles?

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The muscular system

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What system is in charge of the continuation of the human race?

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The reproductive system

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What is it called when a sperm unites with a egg?

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Fertilization

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The development of the child takes place where

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Uterus

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What are organs composed of?

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Tissues

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What is interstitial fluid ?

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The fluid surrounding and between the tissues

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The body had which four basic membranes?

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Serous membrane, mucous membrane, cutaneous membrane, synovial membrane

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What does serous membrane serve for?

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For lining of enclosed body cavities

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What does the mucous membrane serve for?

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To line the throat, mouth and nose .

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Our skin is also called ???? Membrane?

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Cutaneous

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What does synovial membrane serve as?

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To line the joint cavities.

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What is matrix?

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The material surrounding the cells

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What is the 30-40 week period of development in a child called?

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Gestation

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What is the membrane that protects the unborn child during gestation?

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The amniotic sac filled with amniotic fluid

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All the materials that an unborn child needs reached him through what?

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The umbilical cord

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What is the placenta?

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A sac of blood vessels

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What are some methods of abortion?

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Dilation and curettage and salt poisoning

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What are tissues made of?

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Individual cells and matrix

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The framework of the human body is called?

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The skeletal system

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What two divisions is the skeletal system divided into?

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Axial and appendicular

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Which of the two skeletal divisions is the backbone a part of?

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Axial system

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What two parts can your skull be divided?

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Cranium and facial bones

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What is the cranium also called?

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Brain case

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The cranium is made up of what major bones?

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Frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital

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The bones responsible for infants soft spot are called what?

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Fontanels

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What are sutures?

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Uneven lines that cranial bones are attached at

53
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What is the framework of the face and jaw called?

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Facial skeleton

54
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What are the two most important facial bones?

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Maxillary bones

55
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Where are maxillary bones and palatine bones located?

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The roof of the mouth, or the palate

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What is the mandible?

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The bone that forms the lower jaw

57
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What is exceptional about the mandible?

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It’s the only movable bone of the skull

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What are ligaments?

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Tissues that join bones to other bones

59
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Bone skills with hollow spaces are called what?

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Sinuses

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What are the smallest bones I the bodies?

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The three middle ear bones ..malleus, incus, and stapes

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The chief structural member of the body is called what?

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The back bone

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