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Final A&P Test
Stack #199594
Question | Answer |
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What does the hormone cortisol regulate? | Carbohydrates |
What does the hormone oxytocin do? | stimulates uterine contractions and releases milk |
What is the Master Gland | Pituitary gland |
where is bile produced? | Liver |
where is bile stored? | gallbladder |
where are sperm produced? | testes |
what are the three layer of skin? | epidermis, dermis, subcutaneous or hypodermis |
What part of your brain controls judgment and memory? | cerebrum |
what is distal? | farther away from appendage attachment |
what is proximal? | closer to appendage attachment |
what is a ball and socket joint? | Synovial joint |
give an exsample of a synovial joint? | pelvis to femur |
sensory neurons transmit from | sensory receptors to central nervous system |
what does the brainstem control? | respiration, heart rate, temperature, and blood pressure |
what blood type is the universal donor? | O |
what is the name of the outer layer of the kidney? | cortex |
give the order of the arm bones from the most proximal? and for arm which bone is on the thumb side | humerus, radius (thumb side), ulna, carpals, metacarpals, phalanges |
Give the chambers of the heart? | left atrium, right atrium, left ventricle, right ventricle. |
where is the aorta? | in the middle of the heart |
where is the tricuspid valve? | on the right side of the heart |
where is the bicuspid valve? | on the left side of the heart |
where is the superior vena cava | on the right side of the heart leading in |
name the bones of the leg from the most proximal and when you get to the shin name which one is smaller? | ischium, Femur, patella, fibula (smaller), tibia, |
apnea | without breath |
a- or an- | without |
-pnea | breathing |
arteries | vessles that carry oxygenated blood away from the heart to cells and tissue |
axillary | lymph nodes located in the underarm or armpit |
brady- | slow |
cardi/o | heart |
capillaries | the vessles that blood interchanges oxygen and carbon dioxide |
cornea | anterior part of the sclera allows light to enter the interior of the eye. Bends and refracts the light rays |
dys- | painful or difficult |
dyspnea | difficult breathing |
enter/o | small intestine |
-itis | inflammation |
epiglottis | slip of tissue that covers up so that food doesn't go down the windpipe |
fibula | small bone in the leg |
gravida | pregnancy |
hyperglycemia | too much sugar in the blood |
hypoglycemia | too little sugar in the blood |
humerus | largest bone in the body located in the leg |
incontinence | loss of muscle control that causes leakage of urine |
mandible | lower jaw |
multigravida | multiple pregnancy |
multipara | multiple birth |
-para | birth |
olfactory nerve | transports impulses of sense of smell |
pericardium | the sac that surrounds the heart |
pulse | the contraction and expansion of blood moving through the arteries |
sclera | outer most layer of the eye referred to as the white of the eye |
tachy- | fast, rapid |
tachycardia | rapid heartbeat |
tympanic membrane | blocks entrance from outer ear to middle ear also called the eardrum |
veins | transports deoxygenated blood back to the heart |
bile | produced in the liver stored in the gallbladder. Helps digestion of fats and lipids by breaking them down into smaller parts |
insulin | produced in the pancreas stimulates the bodies ability to take in glucose from the bloodstream into cells |
ile/o | ileum |
ileitis | inflammation of the ileum |
endocardium | is the inner layer of the heart lining of the heart chambers |
myocardium | is the thick muscular middle layer of the heart that develops pressure required to pump blood |
oxytocin | produced in the pituitary posterior lobe stimulates uterine contractions and releases milk into ducts |
prolactin | stimulates milk production produced in the pituitary anterior lobe |
axillary | armpit |
cervical | neck |
mediastinal | chest |
inguinal | groin |