Final Flashcards
Epithelial tissue?
Makes the lining of our digestive organs and our mouth & nose
Organs?
Group of tissues work together to form a specific purpose
Why did Galen never dissect a human body?
It was against roman law
What did Galen use to clean his rags?
Wine
Name the 4 kinds of tissue in our body
Epithelial, connective, nervous, & muscular
A cadaver is a what?
Dead body
What are the two main jobs of our dna?
To tell how are cells to make proteins and to tell our cells how to make them
What does the RNA do?
Takes messages from dna to the ribosomes and uses it to make protein
According to the Egyptians, what got them to heaven?
How heavy their heart is compared to a feather
What is the name of aristotles wrong theory?
Spontaneous generation
What were some of the laws God gave the Hebrews to protect them from illness
Instructions on how to clean themselves and their clothes
Why did Robert Hook call things he saw in his microscope cells
Because they reminded him of the cell rooms monks lived in
What did the ancient Egyptians used to keep a persons body from decaying after death
Salt and other chemicals
What did Anton van Leeuwenhoek call the little organisms he saw with his microscope ??
Animalcules
What is the difference between a hypothesis and a theory to the ancient Greeks?
A hypothesis was an educated guess but a theory is once they make the hypothesis a belief
This man thought we needed liquid humors
Hippocrates
What group of people spent a lot of time thinking about science but didn’t really do experiments
Greeks
This person performed dissections on actual human cadavers
Vesalius
Red bone marrow produces what
Red blood cells
What is a special tissue that connects are bones to other bones
Ligaments
What is a special tissue that prevents bones from touching each other
Cartledge
What is another name for fats
Lipids
What Runs from my brain down her back into her hips and there’s a part of the nervous system and gives us ability to move in even talk
Spinal cord
What is a disease that can cause children to be weak and become to deformed
Rickets
Yellow bone marrow stores what?
Fats/lipids
Where is the tiniest bone in our body found
Ear
What joints are in our ankles
Saddle
What joints only open and close
Hinge
Joints move up-and-down back-and-forth and rotate
Ball and socket
What joints help us to move our head up and down side to side until even left or right towards our shoulders
Pivot
Joints allow our back to bend and twist
Plane
Is the scientific name for our hammer bone
Malleus
What is the Scientific name for our anvil
Incus
What is the scientific name for our stirrup?
Stapes
What organs does our skeletal system protect
Heart lungs and brain
What is the difference between osteoporosis and arthritis
Osteoporosis is my bones are brittle and have holes in them so they break down because of lack of nutrients but arthritis is lack of synovial fluid in her joints that cause pain to move them and they swell
Compact bone are made of many layers of calcium tough fiber called what
Collagen
What mineral is found in our body that we get by eating green vegetables fish milk and cereal’s
Phosphorus
What mineral helps our heart beating in her mind to think cleared
Calcium
Someone’s not get the right kind nutrients we say they have
Malnutrition
The outside tough thin membrane of bone is called what?
Compact bone
New bone is made with cells called
Osteo blasts
When your muscles are partially contracted and always working we called this
Muscle tone
Method used by our muscles that do not require oxygen to get their energy is called
Anaerobic
What is the strongest muscle in our body
Is our masseter
What is a waste produced by the type of energy that requires oxygen
Lactic acid
When a part of your body shrinks in size and becomes week to disease injury or lack of use recall this
Atrophy
Beside muscles look striped under a microscope we call this what?
Striated
An illness that effects the masseter is what?
Tetanus
Your Achilles’ tendon attaches to what two places?
Calf & heel
The strongest muscle in our body is what?
Achilles
Smooth muscles are?
Involuntary
What does a reflexive action do
Your muscle can move immediately because something has happened without any thought coming to your brain
What uses glucose and oxygen but for the blood to make energy so your body can move
Mitochondria
Is the largest muscle in your body
Gluteus Maximus
What are good examples of antagonist muscles?
Bicep and tricep
The waste muscles make is
Carbon dioxide and lactic acid
What controls are muscle
Nerves
_____ opens the joints but _____ closes it
1.extensor 2. Flexor
Four places we have smooth muscles in our body
Bladder blood vessels stomach and intestines
Our three different kinds of muscles
Well it’s skeletal smooth and cardiac
REM stands for
Rapid Eye movement
What’s another name for our eardrum!
Tympanum
What does our stomach do?
It stores the food for 3 to 4 hours while digestion is occurring it’s churning breaks down protein
Does our liver/pancreas do
Makes chemicals to break down food
What does our small intestine do
Final digestion takes place in its 20 foot tube
Does our large intestine do
Stores solid waste and removes water
Connective tissue does what?
Makes our organs and bones hold together
