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What is a bursa? Correct answer-sac filled with synovial fluid
What 4-5 inch tube begins at the glottis and functions as the main airway to the lungs?
Correct answer-trachea
What is a concentric action? Correct answer-muscle contracts and short...
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What is a bursa? Correct answer-sac filled with synovial fluid
What 4-5 inch tube begins at the glottis and functions as the main airway to the lungs?
Correct answer-trachea
What is a concentric action? Correct answer-muscle contracts and shortens
What four tiny glands are embedded in the posterior of the thyroid? Correct answer-
parathyroid glands
What is the pathway of blood from the lungs through the heart? Correct answer-lungs >
pulmonary vein > left atrium > mitral valve > left ventricle > aortic valve > aorta > body
What is the respiratory and digestive system's common passage for air and food? Correct
answer-pharynx
What vitamin is not fat-soluble? Correct answer-folic acid
What does water do for the human body physiologically? Correct answer-provides a
medium for chemical reactions, regulates chemical distribution within cells, transports
hormones and nutrients, aids in oxygen and carbon dioxide transport, dilutes toxins and
distributes heat around the body
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What is a myelin sheath? Correct answer-nervous tissue that is composed of neuroglial
cells and serves as a connective tissue that insulates neurons
What is the name of a cell that functions as part of the nervous system? Correct answer-
neuron
What do dendrites do? Correct answer-part of a neuron that receives information
What does an axon fiber do? Correct answer-carry information from dendrites away from
the cell's body
What is composed of multiple nerve fibers? Correct answer-nerve bundle
What structures are located at the synapses and contain neurotransmitters? Correct
answer-synaptic vesticles
Which anatomical structure connects the right and left hemispheres to the cerebrum?
Correct answer-corpus callosum
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What is the corpus callosum responsible for? Correct answer-communication between
the left & right hemispheres and is the largest white matter structure in the brain
What is the temporal lobe responsible for? Correct answer-hearing, language
comprehension, long-term memory, emotion and personality
What lobe is responsible for movement, intellectual functions and speech? Correct
answer-frontal lobe
What is interstitial fluid? Correct answer-fluid that exist between cells and is know as
lymph when it enters the lymphatic system
What is the name of the gel-like substance that is found in the fascia, where is supports collagen
and elastic fibers? Correct answer-ground substance
What is the name of the joint that allows free movement in many directions around a central
point? Correct answer-ball and socket joint
What is the name of the joint where each bone has both convex and concave surfaces allowing
minimal rotation, flexion and extension? Correct answer-saddle joint
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Which joint has a component shaped like a ring and the other component has a round end of
bone that fits directing into the ring, allowing bones to rotate? Correct answer-pivot joint
What is the name of the joint where the cylindrical end of one bone fits into the trough-shaped
surface of another allowing for flexion and extension in one plane? Correct answer-hinge
joint
What are examples of stimulants to the nervous systems? Correct answer-caffeine,
nicotine, amphetamines and cocaine
What are examples of depressants to the nervous system? Correct answer-alcohol,
narcotics, tranquilizers and barbiturates
What are examples of hallucinogens to the nervous system? Correct answer-LSD, PCP
and marijuana
What does vasoconstriction mean? Correct answer-when any type of blood vessel
constricts (getting smaller inside)
What is the term for when a blood vessel enlarges and as a result, floods the capillary network
with arterial blood? Correct answer-vasodilation
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