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37 Cards in this Set
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Integumentary System
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Forms the external body covering, and protects deeper Tssues from
injury. Synthesizes vitamin D and houses receptors + oil glands |
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Skeletal System
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supports body organs and provides
a framework the muscles use to cause movement. Make blood cells, store minerals |
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Muscular System
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Allows manipulation of the environment locomotion, and facial
expression. |
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Endocrine System
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Glands secret hormones that regulate growth, reproduction and metabolism.
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Cardiovascular System
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BV transport blood which carries oxygen, carbon dioxide and nutrition, waste.
The heart pumps blood |
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Lymphatic System/Immunity
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Picks up fluid leaked from blood vessels and returns it to blood. Disposes of debris in the lymphatic stream.
Houses white blood cells involved in immunity. |
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Respiratory System
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Keeps body constantly supplied with oxygen and removes carbon dioxide
The gaseous exchange occur throughout the walls of air sac |
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Digestive System
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Breaks down food into absorbable units that enter the blood for distribution to body.
Indigestible food are eliminated. |
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Urinary System
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Eliminate nitrogenous waste from body, regulates water, electrolyte and acid/base balance
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Reproductive System
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Anatomical PosiTon
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Standing, Front/eyes forward, Thumbs away from body, Palms
forward |
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Superficial
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closer
to the surface |
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Deep
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further
from the surface |
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Ipselateral
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On
the same side |
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Contralateral
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On
opposite sides |
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Tendon
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Connective tissues that attaches muscles to bone
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Ligament
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Connective tissue that connects one bone to another
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Aponeurosis
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large, flat bone
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Articulation
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a joint
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Cranial Bones
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Bone that encases the brain
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Facial Bones
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make up our face
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Fossa
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Shallow depression, usually holding an organ
ex: cranial fossa (holding brain) |
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Foremen Magnum
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Giant hole.
Spinal cord comes through |
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Process
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any projection or bump sticks out from surface of bones
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Ramus
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an extension of a bone making an angle with the rest of the structure
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Trochanter
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large, rough projection
*femur is the only bone that has a trochanter |
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Tuberosity
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small, rough projection
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Tubercle
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small, rounded projection
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Tuberosity
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small, rounded projection
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Facet
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small, articular flat surface
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Head
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expanded articular end of an epiphysis, separated from the shaft by a "neck"
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Neck
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narrow connection between epiphysis and diaphysis
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Condyle
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smooth, rounded articular process. Form a joint with something else...
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Meatus
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passageway through substance of bone
ex: external acustic meatus |
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Temporal Squamous Portion
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flat part of temporal bone
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Glabella
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bone between your eyebrows, part of the frontal bones
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Sella turcica of sphenoid bone
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the pituitary gland rests in this, looks like a sattal
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