Systems Of The Body Flashcards
Skeletal system
Bones that secure muscles
Articular
Fixed and movable joints
Cardiovascular
Heart, arteries, carrying nutrients, blood, and gasses
Lymphatic
Vessels helping the veins recover the body’s tissue fluids and returning them to the heart
Nervous
Conducting tissue into a central nervous system and a peripheral nervous system.
Endocrine
Glands that secrete hormones into tissue fluid and blood. Helps maintain balanced metabolic functions.
Integumentary
Skin. Provides many glands and layers of cells
Respiratory
Traveling airway
Digestive
Breakdown and digestion of food
Urinary
Maintenance of a neutral acid base balance in body fluids
Immune/ Lymphoid
Multiple organs involved in body defense
Female reproductive
Sex hormones, transports ova, maintains fetus until birth
Male reproductive
Sex hormones, sperm, transports sperm