Lab 5: Organization of Body Flashcards
What happens at the placenta and umbilical chord?
Co2 and and organic wastes are exchanged for oxygen and organic nutrients.
Why may choking occur if a person breathes thorough the mouth while chewing food?
The epiglottis opens while you breathe in.
List organs you find in thoracic cavity.
Heart and lungs
List organs you would find in the abdominal cavity.
Lover, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, gall bladder, pancreas.
List the structures air passes as it moves through the respiratory tract from the nasal passages to the lungs.
Nasal passage to pharynx to glottis to larynx to trachea to bronchi to lungs.
What does the thyroid gland do?
secretes hormones that travel in the blood and act upon other body cells.
Name several functions of the liver:
disposes worn our RBC’s produces bile, stores glycogen, maintains blood glucose level.
Function of spleen:
purifies blood and disposes of RBC’s.
Function of gall bladder:
stores and releases bile which aids in digestion of fat.
Function of pancreas:
Produces and secretes pancreatic juice. Secretes hormones insulin and glycogen into bloodstream.
List the structures on the path food takes through the digestive tract as it moves from the mouth to the anus:
Tongue, esophagus, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, anus.
What directional term refers to the head end of the fetal pig?
Anterior
What space is dorsal to the oral cavity and has 3 openings?
Pharynx
What glandular organ is especially large in fetal pigs because their immune systems were still developing?
Thymus Gland
Is the trachea ventral or dorsal to the esophagus?
Ventral
