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31 Cards in this Set
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Trachea
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The windpipe, or passage through which air moves.
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Alveoli
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Hollow pockets where respiration takes place in your lungs.
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Arteries
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Blood vessels that carry blood away from your heart.
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Capillaries
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Tiny blood vessels that connect arteries to veins.
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Veins
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Blood Vessels that carry blood back to your heart.
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Nutrients
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Parts of food that give youu energy, help you grow, or help you stay healthy.
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Oxygen
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A gas needed by your cells.
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Cells
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Smallest living part of the human body and of other living things.
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Involuntery Muscles
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Muscles that you do not have control over, they make your inner organs work.
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Voluntary Muscles
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Muscles that you can control whenever you want.
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Tendons
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Tough tissues that attach your muscles to your bones.
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Urinary Bladder
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The baglike organ that holds urine.
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Villi
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Fingerlike growths inside the small intestine; nutrients pass into blood vessels inside them.
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Cilla
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Tiny hairlike parts of special cells that line the trachea and bronchial tubes.
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Pancreas
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An organ near the stomach that makes juices for digesting foods.
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Peristalsis
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The wavelike squeezing motion of the digestive system.
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Organ
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Body part made up of groups of different tissues that work together to do a certain job.
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Gallbladder
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The pear-shaped organ lying under the liver, stores bile.
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Bronchial Tubes
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Two tubes at the bottom of the trachea; lead into the lungs.
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Marrow
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Soft tissue in the shaft of bones; supplies the body with blood cells.
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Tissue
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Group of cells of the same kind working together to do a certain job.
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Pelvis
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Formed by the hipbones; helps support your body.
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Joint
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A place where two bones connect or join.
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Enzyme
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A substance that helps a chemical reaction happen in the body.
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Diaphragm
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The sheet of muscle at the bottom of your chest, under your lungs; helps yu breathe.
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Kidneys
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Bean-shaped organs in your back and above your waist; remove chemical wastes from your blood
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Body System
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Several organs in the body that work together for one purpose.
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Skeleton
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The body's framework, made up of bones.
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Ligaments
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Tough bands of tissue that hold bones together at a joint.
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Cartilage
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The tough tissue between the bones at most moveable joints.
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Vertebrae
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Bones that make up the spine.
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