C.L NOTES 101-120 Flashcards
101.The fluid circulating through the heart, arteries, veins, and capillaries.
What is blood?
101.Carries oxygen and nutrients to the cells.
What does blood carry?
- A severe form of food poisoning.
What is botulism?
- Caused by a kind of bacterium that produces a toxin.
What causes botulism?
- The central organ in the nervous system
What is the brain?
- Consists of the medulla, the pons, the cerebellum, and the cerebrum.
What does the brain consist of?
- Contains two hemispheres, the left brain and the right brain.
What is the cerebrum?
- Controls everything on the left side of a body.
What does the right brain control?
- A highly contagious disease usually fatal affecting the lymphatic system.
What is bubonic plaque?
- Caused by bacteria transmitted to humans by rat bone fleas.
How is bubonic plaque caused?
- A disease characterized by the rapid growth of cells in the body.
What is cancer?
- Often in the form of a tumor.
What form does cancer come through?
- Tiny blood vessels throughout the body that connects arteries and veins.
What are cappiliaries?
- Distributes oxygen and nutrients to the cells and remove waste substances.
What do capillaries distribute?
- A mildly but highly contagious disease caused by a virus and characterized by slight fever and the eruption of blisters on the skin.
What are chicken poxs?
- Classified as a disease of childhood.
What are chicken poxs classified as?
- This saying originated from the west.
Where did the saying “ Hold Your Horses” originate?
- Means to restrain or hold back.
What does “ Hold Your Horses” mean?
- To sleep.
What does hit the sack mean?
- Commonly refers to getting sleep.
What does hit the sack refer to?
- Normally used regarding someone who has committed an error against someone else.
How is the term in the dog house used?
- E. G Thomas was in the dog house after his mother caught him in a lie.
What is a example of bring in the dog house?
- The act of stepping onto thin ice.
What does skating on thin ice mean?
- Used to indicate that the possibility of error is great.
How is skating on thin ice used?
- ” DON’T HAVE A COW”
What cartoon character used this saying?
- This saying was used before Bart.
Was Bart the first person to use this saying?
- A condition of of complete indigestion.
What does BUTTERFLIES IN ONE STOMACH MEANS?
- Illness or maybe even death.
What can indigestion result in ?
- This saying is not in literal terms.
What does driving someone up the wall?
- Means if conditions were so serious and upsetting that an individual felt like crawling up a wall.
What does driving someone up the wall mean?
- This saying means not to give up till its over.
What does “ IT ISN’T OVER UNTIL THE FAT LADY SINGS” mean?
- This saying was originally attributed to yogi Berra famed catcher and one time manager of the New York Yankees.
Who used “IT ISN’T OVER UNTIL THE FAT LADY SINGS”?
- EYES BIGGER THAN ONES STOMACH
What saying does probably every child heard?
- Referring to eating is obvious and usually means that we often tend to want more food that our stomachs can’t accommodate.
What does eyes bigger than ones stomach refer to?
- It’s saying is not used in the literal term.
How is cat got your tongue used?
- This saying originated to reflect the reality that cats rarely say much.
Why did this saying originate?
- Fit as a fiddle means to be physically fit.
What does fit As a fiddle mean?
- A musical instrument.
What is a fiddle?
- You can’t cover the sun with one finger.
Why can’t you cover the sun with your finger?
- You can’t cover the sun with one finger. No matter how big of a mistake you can’t cover it up.
What does you can’t cover the sun with one finger?
