Exsam 4 Flashcards
What is a part of the body made up of several kinda of tissue?
Organ
During (what), chemical and physical processes change the food we eat into a form which can be used for body energy.
Digestion
A group of cells that performs one function is called a?
Tissue
Several organs which carry out a particular function such as respiration, form a?
System
All sham stems of the body are interrelated and their activities are unified by the (what) system and the (what system)
- Nervous
2. Endocrine
Chemical messer gets in the endocrine system are called?
Hormones
Over half of the weight of the body is made up the (what) and (what) systems?
- Skeletal
2. Muscular
What are the three major divisions of the circulatory system?
And what are the vessels?
- Blood, heart, and arteries
2. Veins, & capillaries.
Oxygen is carried to the cells by (what)? the pigment in red blood cells.
Hemoglobin
Cuts in the skin heal when (what) cells break up and release a chemical (what) which causes a protein network to firm and close a wound.
- Platelet
2. Enzyme
The heart chambers called (what) pump blood out of the heart in the contraction called (what); relaxation or (what) allows blood to enter the chambers called (what)?
- Ventricles
- Systole
- Diastole
- Auricles ventricle
Waste materials from the cells are carried by the blood to the (what) system and the (what) system?
- Urinary
2. respiratory
The skin and connective tissues?
Integumentary system.
Largest organ of the body?
Skin
The smallest blood vessels?
Capillaries
Cool the skin by releasing fluid?
Sweat glands