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Musculoskeletal system

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It have of skeletal muscle system, ligaments, tendons skeletal system (bones and joints).

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Skeletal system

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It has bones and joints.

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Skeletal muscle system

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It is muscles in the Musculoskeletal system.

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Skeleton

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Bones from dead animals or humans forming skeletons.

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Bones

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Is a hard tissue which make up the skeletons.

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Bone marrow

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Is a object inside a bone that blood cell are made.

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Cartilage

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Is a flexible object that connects the bone to the joint.

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Calcium

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It is a element has limestone. It also a component of a bone.

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Phosphorus

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A object that plays a chemical reaction in the body. Together with calcium the body maintain healthy bones and teeth.

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Minerals

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It is inorganic elements that is important to to the functioning of the human body and are obtained from foods.

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Ossification

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When bones go hard. (Hardness of the bone)

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Brittle

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It is an object that easily breaks to pieces.

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Joint

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Is a point of the arm or leg where the two bones meet.

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Ligaments

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A tough tissue that attach on the end of bones or keeps a organ in place.

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Synovial fluid

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The liquid inside the cavity which surrounds a joint that help bones slide over other bones freely.

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Pivot joint

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It is a joint which allow twisting action.

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Hinge joints

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It is a joint that have two bones connected. Therefore, the action occurs in one plane only.

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Ball and socket joints

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Ball and socket joints is a joint where the rounded end of one bone fits into the hollow end of another which forms a joint.

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Immovable joints

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It is a joint that does not allow you to move it only when taking a hard blow.

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Muscles

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Are cells that is in the skin’s tissue.

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Involuntary muscles

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Types of muscles that can not be controlled.

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Voluntary muscles

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Muscles that are connected to the bone.

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Tendons

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A hard rope-like shape tissue attached to the muscle on the bone.

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Greenstick fracture

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It is a bone break that does not go completely through the bone. Often seen in children.

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Fracture

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When a bone breaks (a break in a bone).

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Stem cells

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Are cells which are undeveloped that are found in blood and bone marrow.

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Osteoporosis

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It is when the bone loses mass which makes it to became lighter.

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Sprains

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Is a injury that is created by tearing a ligament.

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Arthritis

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Is a condition which causes the joints to swell up and become painful.

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Tennis elbow

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Is a injury which is caused from strain or overuse the elbow lining. Tennis elbow can become painful and inflamed.

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Torn hamstrings

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It is a common injury from sports caused due to overstretching the hamstring muscle. Torn hamstrings which came from joints the pelvis to the knee joint.

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Erythrocytes

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They are red blood cells that travel through out your body.

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Leucocytes

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They are white blood cells that travel through out your body.

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Plasma

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Is the liquid bit of blood that contains water, minerals, food and wastes from cells. It is also a yellowish liquid.

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Red Blood Cells

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They are cells that transport oxygen to different parts of the body.

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Haemoglobin

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The a pigment that is red which comes from the red blood cells that carry’s oxygen around the body.

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Oxyhaemoglobin

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It is haemoglobin but with oxygen molecules connected to it.

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White Blood Cells

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They are living blood cells that fight bacteria and viruses which helps the body to survive.

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Platelets

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Platelets are tiny/small bodies that are involved in n blood clotting. Platelets role is to heal a wound by clumping together around the wound,

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Circulatory System

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It is a body system that circulates oxygen in blood to all the different parts of the body. The circulatory system is made up from the heart, the blood vessels and blood.

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Arteries

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Arteries are vessels that are hollow and have thick walls which moves the blood to different parts of the body.

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Veins

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Veins are blood vessels that transport blood back to the heart. (They have thinner walls than arteries and have valves).

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Capillaries

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They are tubes transporting the blood to blood cells. Also every cell has the capillaries that provide blood.

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Oxygenate Blood

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Oxygenated blood are a bright red blood that provide oxygen in the lungs.

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Deoxygenated Blood

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Deoxygenated blood is when some oxygen in the blood has been removed.

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Vena Cava

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Vena Cava is a large vain leading into the top right area of the human heart which pumps blood.

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Left Atrium

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It is the top left area of the human heart is where oxygenate blood that came from the lungs comes into the heart.

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Right Atrium

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It is the top right area of the human heart is where deoxygenated blood from the body enters into the human heart.

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Left Ventricle

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It is the bottom left area of the human heart, which pumps oxygenated blood to all the different sections in the body.

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Right Ventricle

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It is the bottom right area of the human heart, which pumps deoxygenated blood to the human lungs.

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Valves

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It is flap-like folds that is in line of the other hollow organ and blood vessel that makes liquid such as blood to flow in a particular direction only.

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‘Lub Dub’

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‘Lub Dub’ is the sound that is created by the heart valves when they close.

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Blood Pressure

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Measures how powerful the blood is when it’s pumped through body’s main arteries.

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Systolic Pressure

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It is when the higher blood pressure reading during when the heart muscles get tighter.

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Diastolic Pressure

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It is when the lowest blood pressure reading during when the heart muscles relaxes.

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Heartbeat

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It is when the heart muscles become tight 60 to 100 times per minute.

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Pulse

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It is when the human arteries tighten up and expand because of the heart pumping blood.

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Pacemaker

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It is an electronic device place in the chest of a human which helps the heart beating regularly at the correct rate. Also it works by simulating tiny electrical impulses in the human heart.

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Cardiac Muscle

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It is a special different kind of muscle due to the fact it never tires when it involved in pumping blood through the heart.

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Oxygen

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Gas in the air that animals and humans need to breath.

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Epiglottis

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Leaf-like flap of cartilage that closes the air passage during swallowing that is behind the tongue.

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Respiratory System

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It is a body system that involves the lungs breathing in air and breathing out Carbon dioxide,

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Trachea

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It is a narrow tube that moves air from the mouth to the lungs,

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Lungs

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It is an organ in your chest that breaths in oxygen and breaths out carbon dioxide.

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Bronchi

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It is a narrow and hollow tube that receives air from the trachea to the smaller bronchioles and alveoli in the respiratory system.

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Bronchioles

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They are small branching which is in the lung leading from the the two bigger bronchi to the alveoli.

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Alveoli

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Is it the small air sacs at the end of the lungs which is narrow tubes.

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Pulmonary Vein

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Pulmonary vein is vessels that go through oxygenated blood which travel from your lungs to your heart.

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Aorta

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Aorta is a large artery that goes through oxygenated blood from the left ventricle of the heart to the body which is pumped at high pressure

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Arterioles

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Arterioles are narrow vessels that pump oxygenated blood from the arteries to the capillaries.

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Venules

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Venules are small veins in the human body.

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Pulmonary Artery

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The vessel that goes through the deoxygenated blood, that travels from the heart to the lungs which carrying respiration wastes.

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Diaphragm

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It is a muscular layer separating the chest and the abdomen which flexible, dome-shaped, and it is involved in breathing.

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Vital Capacity

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It is the largest amount of air that you can be breathed in or out at all one time.

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Breathing

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Breathing is movement in your lungs and chest that cause you to make air enter the lungs and out of the lungs.

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Excretory System

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It is the system that includes lungs, kidney, liver and skin that get rid of substances.

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Nephrons

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The filter of the kidney.

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Skin

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The item covering the human and animal body.

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Lungs

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The organ that breaths oxygen in and carbon dioxide out.

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Liver

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The largest organ in the human body that break down harmful substances.

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Kidneys

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An organ that filters the blood and other waste.

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Ureters

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Tubes that travel to kidney to kidney that carry urine to the bladder.

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Bladder

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Is a sac that stores urine.

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Urine

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A yellow liquid that produce by the kidney that comes out of the penis.

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Urination

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It is the urine from the bladder passing outside the body.

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Urethra

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Tube that goes through the urine from the bladder outside of the body.

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Bowman’s capsule

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Is a cup like structure that at the end of the nephron in the kidney.

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Glomerulus

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Is the caterpillars that in the kidney that filter to remove waste and excess water.

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Haemodialysis

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It is the process when machine remove waste out of your blood.

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