Question | Answer |
Integumentary | Function: Protects body from injury, infection
Helps regulate body temperature, eliminate some waste
*Skin hair nails sweat |
Endocrine | Function: Secrete hormones into the blood which regulate growth, development, and homeostasis
*Pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal and thymus glands, pancreas, ovaries, testes |
Digestive | Function: Breaks down food and delivers the products to the blood for dispersal to the body cells, eliminates waste from body
*mouth, salivary glands, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, intestine, liver, gallbladder, pancreas |
Circulatory | Function: Pumps blood to and from the heart to supply oxygen to the body, delivers oxygen and nutrients to organs and cells carries waste products away
*Heart, blood vessels, blood, spleen |
Special senses | Function: Allows body to react to environment by providing sight, hearing, taste, smell, and balance
*Eye, Ear, tongue, nose, General sense receptors |
Skeletal | Function: Provides support and a frame for the body
*bones, cartilage |
Respiratory breeds in 02 and eliminates CO2 from body | |
Respiratory | Function: Breathe in oxygen and eliminates carbon dioxide from body
*Nose, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, lungs |
Reproductive | Function: Functions in creating offspring
*Male: testes, epididymis, vas deferentes, ejaculatory duct, seminal vesicles, prostate glands, penis, urethra
*Female: ovaries, fallopian tube, uterus, vagina, breasts |
Urinary | Function: Removes wastes from the blood and helps to maintain water and electrolyte balance
*Kidneys, ureters, urinary bladder, urethra |
Nervous | Function: Collects and processes information from the senses via nerves and the brain, and tells the muscles what to do to cause physical actions
*Nerves, brain, spinal cord |
Muscular | Function: Body temperature and protects the body, enables body to move using muscles
*Skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscles |
Lymphatic | Function: Defends the body against disease-causing agents, carries some tissues, fluid, and wastes to blood
*Lymph nodes, lymph vessels, spleen, tonsils, thymus gland |