C.L. TEST 101-120 Flashcards
- Blood
What does it circulate through?
Heart, arteries, veins, and capillaries
- Blood
What is in the blood stream?
Red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets
- Botulism
What is it?
A form of food poisoning
- Botulism
What happens if not treated?
It may be fatal
- Brain
What is it?
The central organ in the nervous system
- Brain
Where are signals sent to and from to get to the brain?
The spinal cord
- Brain extended
What does the cerebrum contain?
A left and right hemisphere
- Brain extended
What side does the left hemisphere control? And what does the right hemisphere control?
Left- the right side of the body
Right- the left side of the body
- Bubonic plaque
What does this fatal disease affect?
The lymphatic system
- Bubonic plaque
How is it transmitted?
Bacteria passed by rat borne fleas
- Cancer
What is it
A disease when your cells grow rapidly but the cancerous cells are the ones growing
- Cancer
What type of disease is it?
It’s invasive
- Capillaries
What to the blood vessels connect?
Veins and arteries
- Capillaries
What does it help get to cells?
Oxygen and nutrients
- Chicken pox
What causes this?
A virus
- Chicken pox
Who usually gets this?
Children but occasionally adults too
- Hold your horses
Where did this expression originate from?
The west
- Hold your horses
What does it mean?
To hold back on ones expression of enthusiasm
- Hit the sack
What is its meaning?
To get some sleep
- Hit the sack
What does it mean?
It’s and expression
- In the doghouse
What is it?
Someone who has committed an error against someone else
- In the doghouse
What are they held in?
Disregard disdain
- Skating on thin ice
What is it?
An expression
- Skating on thin ice
Meaning what?
Possibility of error is Great
- Don’t have a cow man
What tv cartoon character did this originate from?
Bart Simpson
- Butterflies in ones stomach
If real what would happen?
Indigestion illness and even death
- Butterflies in ones stomach
What does it indicate?
Nervousness
- Driving someone up the wall
What do the feel like doing?
Crawl up the wall
- Driving someone up the wall
If you the one irritating the other person what are you?
The driver
- It isn’t over until the fat lady sings
Who started this?
Yogi Berra
- It isn’t over until the fat lady sings
Why is it thought to have formed from an opera?
The closing song was very often sung by a large female
- Eyes bigger than ones stomach
What does it mean?
More food than your stomach can hold
- Eyes bigger than ones stomach
What’s one extended meaning?
Wanting more things than one needs
- Cat got your tongue
What does it mean in reality?
Cat really “say” much at all
- Cat got your tongue
Meaning?
Someone is being overly quiet
- Fit as a fiddle
When does a fiddle sound best?
When it’s tuned
- Fit as a fiddle
How does it refer to a person?
“Fit” or “tuned”
- You can’t cover the sun with one finger
Meaning?
Try to cover a mistake
- You can’t cover the sun with one finger
What is it?
Rather useless
