Chapters 6-9 Flashcards
What does the thoracic cavity contain?
The heart, lungs and esophagus.
What are the four body cavities?
Cranial, spinal, thoracic, and abdominal.
What does the abdominal cavity contain?
The liver, stomach, pancreas, spleen, kidneys, bladder, small and large intestine, and reproductive organs.
What’s another name for reproductive organs?
Gonads
What is the heart/lungs/intestines also called?
Visceral organs
What is a system?
A group of structures which function together as a unit to preform a job for the body
In order name the divisions of systems
Systems, organs, tissues, cells
What are the organs of the circulatory system?
Heart, arteries,veins, capillaries
Which of these…the arteries or veins, carry the blood away from the heart?
The arteries carry blood away, the veins carry blood too the heart.
What is the body’s ‘defense system’ against bacteria and sickness?
The immune system
Where are white blood cells produced abs where do they mature?
Bone marrow and they mature in bone marrow and thymus gland
What system provides the body tissues with oxygen and to remove carbon dioxide?
Respiratory system.
What is the passage that air takes when it’s breathed in?
Nose, nasal passages, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchial tubes, and lungs
What is alveoli?
The thin walked air sacs at the end of the bronchial tubes in the lungs
What system makes a path through the thoracic abs abdominal system and the small intestine.
Digestive system
What is the alimentary canal?
A 20 ft long tube leading from the mouth till the ‘waste bucket’
What is the large intestine also known as?
The colon
What system provides a number if openings the through which waste materials are gotten rid of
The excretory system
What is the tube which connects the bladder to the outside of the body?
The urethra
What system coordinates the activities of the body?
The nervous system
What is the most important organ of the nervous system
The brain
What are ‘chemical messengers’?
Hormones
What is the system called that produces hormones?
The endocrine system
What is the system that contains the largest organ?
Integumentary system
How many bones approx. are there in our body?
206
What is the system that contains our bones abs ligaments called?
Skeletal system
What is he system that is responsible for the moving of the body…with voluntary abs involuntary muscles?
The muscular system
What system is in charge of the continuation of the human race?
The reproductive system
What is it called when a sperm unites with a egg?
Fertilization
The development of the child takes place where
Uterus
What are organs composed of?
Tissues
What is interstitial fluid ?
The fluid surrounding and between the tissues
The body had which four basic membranes?
Serous membrane, mucous membrane, cutaneous membrane, synovial membrane
What does serous membrane serve for?
For lining of enclosed body cavities
What does the mucous membrane serve for?
To line the throat, mouth and nose .
Our skin is also called ???? Membrane?
Cutaneous
What does synovial membrane serve as?
To line the joint cavities.
What is matrix?
The material surrounding the cells
What is the 30-40 week period of development in a child called?
Gestation
What is the membrane that protects the unborn child during gestation?
The amniotic sac filled with amniotic fluid
All the materials that an unborn child needs reached him through what?
The umbilical cord
What is the placenta?
A sac of blood vessels
What are some methods of abortion?
Dilation and curettage and salt poisoning
What are tissues made of?
Individual cells and matrix
The framework of the human body is called?
The skeletal system
What two divisions is the skeletal system divided into?
Axial and appendicular
Which of the two skeletal divisions is the backbone a part of?
Axial system
What two parts can your skull be divided?
Cranium and facial bones
What is the cranium also called?
Brain case
The cranium is made up of what major bones?
Frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital
The bones responsible for infants soft spot are called what?
Fontanels
What are sutures?
Uneven lines that cranial bones are attached at
What is the framework of the face and jaw called?
Facial skeleton
What are the two most important facial bones?
Maxillary bones
Where are maxillary bones and palatine bones located?
The roof of the mouth, or the palate
What is the mandible?
The bone that forms the lower jaw
What is exceptional about the mandible?
It’s the only movable bone of the skull
What are ligaments?
Tissues that join bones to other bones
Bone skills with hollow spaces are called what?
Sinuses
What are the smallest bones I the bodies?
The three middle ear bones ..malleus, incus, and stapes
The chief structural member of the body is called what?
The back bone
