Organ System Flashcards
skin, nails, and hair; cutaneous sense organs and glands
integumentary
integumentary organ system
protects deeper organs from injury due to bacteria, chemicals, bumps, and dehydration
excretes salts and urea
helps regulate body temperature
produces vitamin d
bones, cartilages, tendons, ligaments, and joints
skeletal
skeletal organ system
supports and protects internal organs
provides levers for muscular action
stores minerals (calcium and others)
cavities provide a site for blood cell formation
muscles attached to the skeleton
muscular organ system
muscular organ system
skeletal muscles contract or shorten; in doing so, they move bones to allow motion,grasping,and manipulating the environment and facial expression
generates heat
brain, spinal cord, nerves, and special sense organs
nervous organ system
nervous organ system
allows body to detect changes in its internal andexternal environment and to respond to such information by activating appropriate musclesor glands
helps maintain short term homeostasis of the body via rapid transmission of electrical signals
pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid,adrenal and pineal glands; ovaries, testes and pancreas
endocrine organ system
endocrine organ system
promotes growth and development and produces chemical “messengers (hormones)” that travel in the blood to exert their effects on various target organs
plays a role in regulating long term homeostasis
heart, blood vessels, and blood
cardiovascular organ system
cardiovascular organ system
primarily a transport system that carries a blood containing oxygen, carbon dioxide, nutrients, wastes, ions,hormones, and other substances to and fromcells where exchanges are made; pumping action of the heart propels blood through the blood vessels
protects body with blood clots, antibodies, and other protein molecules in the blood
lymphatic vessels, lymph nodes, spleen, thymus, and tonsils
lymphatic/immune system
lymphatic/immune organ system
picks up fluid leaked from the blood vessels and returns it to the blood
cleanses blood of pathogens and other debris
houses cells(lymphocytes and others) that act in the immune response to protect the body from foreign substances
nose, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, and lungs
respiratory system
