The 11 Organ systems Flashcards
Expel waste, protect the body, regulates body temperature.
Components; hair, skin, nails
Integumentary system
Protects and supports body organs and provides a framework muscle use to cause movement. Forms blood cells and stores minerals.
Components; bones, joints, cartilage
Skeletal system
Consist of muscles. It enables movement, maintains posture, and produces heat.
Components; skeletal muscles
Muscular system
Includes the brain spinal cord, nerves, and sensory organs. It controls and coordinates body activities and processes sensory information.
Components; brain, spinal cord and nerves
Nervous system
Composed of gland, slides of thyroid, pancreas, and adrenal glands. Regulates metabolism, growth and development through the hormones.
Endocrine system
Blood vessels, transport blood, which carries oxygen, carbon dioxide, nutrients, waste, etc.
The heart pumps blood.
Components: heart and blood vessels
Cardiovascular system
Returns fluid leaked from blood vessels to blood. Disposes of debris, houses white blood cells carries out immune responses.
Components; bone marrow, lymph nodes, lymphatic vessels, and spleen
Lymphatic system
Keep blood constantly supplied with oxygen and removes carbon dioxide. These exchanges occur through the walls of the air sacks of lungs.
Component; lungs and passageways, including the oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, trachea, and bronchi
Respiratory system
Breaks down into absorbable units that enter blood and are distributed to blood cells. In digestible food stuff eliminated as feces.
Components; oral cavity, esophagus, liver, stomach, small, intestines, large, intestines, rectum, and anus.
Digestive system
Eliminates nitrogenous waste from the body, regulates, water, electrolyte, and acid base balance of the blood.
Components; kidneys, ureters, urinary bladder, and Urethra.
Urinary system
Production of offspring structures of both sexes produce, sex, hormones, male structures produce and deliver sperm females structures produce eggs, and serve site for fertilization and development
Components; prostate, penis, testes, scrotum, ductus defers, memory, ovaries, uterus, vagina.
Reproductive system faster
