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52 Cards in this Set
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pressure exerted by blood against the walls of blood vessels
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blood pressure
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immune response against ones own body
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autoimmunity
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heart chamber that pumps blood out of the heart and into an artery
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ventricle
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blood pressure forces water and small solutes but nto proteins out across walls of capillaries
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filitration
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antigen sensitized B/T cell that forms in an immune response and acts immediatyl
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effector cell
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group fo heart cells that emits rythmic singnals calling for muscle contraction
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S.A node
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a normally harmless substance that provokes an immune response in some people
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allergen
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tube that carries urine from a kidney to the bladder
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ureter
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brief stretching of aftery walls that occurs when ventricles contract
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pules
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antigen sensitixed B/T cell that forms in an immune response but does NOT act immeditalty
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memory cell
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water and solutes enter capillaries
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reabsorption
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heart chamber that pumps blood into a ventricle
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atrium
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tube through which urine from the bladder flows out of the body
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urethra
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set of inborn general defenses against infection
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innate immunity
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capillaries are
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blood vessels with the largest diamter
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arteries are
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narrow in diamter, carry blood away from the heart, only carry oxigented blood and are only found in humans
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the pulmonary circuit involves blood moving away from
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the heart, to the lungs back to the heart then to the body tissues
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______ is the transport medium for the blood cells and platelets
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plasma
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little thin walled air sacs that are the sites of gas exchange in the lungs are the
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alveoli
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during the cardiac cycle which of the following is the correct order of events
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atria and ventricles relax, atria contract, ventricles contract
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one breath in and one breath out constitutes
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respitory system
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the SA node
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is a clump of specialized cariac cells in the wall fo the rifght atrium, and is referred to as the cardiac pacemaker
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the bulging of a ____ during the contraction of the ventricles is refered to as_____
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artery, pulse
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which vessel of the human body can serve as a blood resuiver
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vein
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respirtion
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in most animals involves both the circulatory and respitory systems
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little thin walled air sacs that are the sites of gas exchange in the lungs are
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the alveoli
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anemia refers to
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too few or abnormal red blood cells
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at rest the largest volume of blood is in the
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veins
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antibody mediated responses work against
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cancerous cells
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a _ is a molecule that would be recognized by the body as foreign
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antigen
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which component of the blood helps toc arry out all immune response?
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white blood cells
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microorganisms found on human skin
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may cause serious illness if they invade the internal environment
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innate immunity defenses include
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phagocytosis, complement system,inflammation and fever
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inflammation
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is trigger by activated complement, is a non specific local response, results in redness due to increased blood floow and resutls ins welling due to diffusion of water into the tissue
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B cells or T cells that have yet to bind to an antigen are called
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naive
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the ability of the adaptive immune response to tailor its response toa particular anitgen is reffered to as
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specifity
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if a toxin is detected in the blood which adaptive immune response would u expect to occur
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antibody mediated immune response
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if a person is incapable of making effector helpter T cells what will be the result
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memory B cells and effector Bcells will not be produced
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damaged or infected body cells are destroyed by
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cytotoxic T cells
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autoimmune disorders are caused by
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lymphocytes and antibody molecules attacking self cells instead of only foreign cells
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the goal of immunization is to
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induce immunity to disease
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digestion is defined as
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breaking food down into small nutrient molecules
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the stomach
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secretes enzymes that begin to break down fats
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where does most digestion and absorbtion occur
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small intestine
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which molecule is our primary source of energy
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triglycerides
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fats that ur body cannot make are called
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essential fatty acids
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if a person does not produce bile which have macromoleules would what would they have the miost trouvle digesting
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FATS
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water soluable vitamens
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must be replenished each day, are destroyed by heat, include vitamens B and C and are not stored in the body
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to maintain a proper weight
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a person should be careful of what they eat and shud exercise
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a nephron is
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a kidnedy tubule and the assosicated cappilaries
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the antidiuretic hormone ADH
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signals ur body to reabsorb more water as the filtrate passes through the nephron and is inhibited by alcohol
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the general term anorexia refers to
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a condition in which an individual does not eat enough to maintain a healthy body weight
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