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11 Cards in this Set
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Integumentary System
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Covers the body and protects tissues. Regulates body temperature, and suppor sensory receptors. Include the skin and accessory organs such as hair, nails, sweat glands, and sebaceous glands.
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Skeletal/Muscular System
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Provide Support. Include all bones, ligaments, and cartilage and muscles.
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Nervous System
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Detect changes, receive and interpret sensory information. Stimulate muscles and glands. Consists of brain, spinal cord, nerves, and sense organ
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Endocrine System
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Control metobolic activities. Includes all the glands that secrete chemical messamgers. Pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal glands, pancreas, ovaries, testes, pineal gland, and thymus
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Cardiovascular System
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Transport substances throughout the internal enironment. Heart, arteries, capillaries, veins, and blood.
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Lymphatic System
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Return tissue fluid to the blood and defend against infection (sometimes considered part of Cardiovascular System).
Includes lymphatic vessels, lymph fluid, lymph nodes, thymus, and spleen. |
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Digestive System
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Receive, breakdown, and absorb food; eliminate unabsorbed material.
mouth, teeth, salivary glands, pharnyx, esophagus, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, small/large intestines. |
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Respiratory System
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Intake and output of air, exchange of gases between air and blood.
Nasal cavity, pharnyx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, lungs. |
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Urinary System
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Removes wastes from blood, maintain water and electrolyte balance, store and transport urine.
Kidneys, ureters, urinary bladder, urethrea. |
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Reproductive (Male) System
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Produce/maintain sperm cells, transfer sperm cells into female reproductive tract.
Scrotum, testes, epididymides, ductus deferentia, seminal vesicles, prostate gland, bulbourethal glands, urethra, penis. |
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Reproductive (Female) System
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Produce and maintain egg cells, receive sperm cells, support development of an embryo and function in birth process.
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