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Human Body

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Nerve Cell or Neuron   Basic working unit of the nervous system  
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Infectious Disease   Passed from organism to another: bacteria and viruses are pathogens that infectious diseases  
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Pathogens   Bacteria and veruses/don't belong in your body; organisms that cause some diseases:enter your body and multiplies which creates and infection  
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Antibody   Chemical that the body makes to stop pathosens from infecting other cells  
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Immune System   Helps protect you from many pathogens made of blood cells and other tissues  
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Vaccine   kind of medicine that protects you from a disease  
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Penicillin   Becames the first antibiotic in 1928. Fleming discovered that a fungus, Penicillium, released a subtace that kills bacteria  
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Voluntary Muscle   Mucles that control your skeletal muscles and help you move  
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smiling, running, chewing   voluntary muscle  
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Arm volutary muscle   when you bend your arm, the first muscle relaxes and the others contract  
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Involuntary muscles   muscles you can't control  
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breathing, digesting food, keep your blood flowing, helping your eyes adjust to ligh   involuntary muscle  
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Skeletal Muscles   voluntary/ attached to your bones which helps you move  
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Smooth Muscle   Involuntary - works automatically in different organ systems  
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Cardiac Muscle   Involuntary - found only in the heart  
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Blood returns from the body   enters the right side of the heart  
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Right pump sends bloods filled with carbon dioxide to the lungs   carbon dioxide leaves blood- oxygen enters the blood  
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Blood from the lungs enters   the left side of the heart  
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Left pump moves blood into   the body which needs oxygen  
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Heart pumping starts all over again when   the blood return to the heart for oxygen  
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Mouth   teeth and saliva break down food  
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esophagus-25 cm long   smooth muscles in esophagus contract and move food toward stomach  
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Stomach- smooth muscles mash th food and mix in juices   pushes food into small intestine  
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Small intetine 7 meters long and 2.5 cm wide   digestion takes place during 3-6 hours juices in small intesting and other organs break the food  
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Large Intetine   Removes much of the liquid and stores the solid waste until it leaves the body  
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