Organ System

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What are the major functions of Integumentary System?

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Protect underlying tissues
Help regulate body temperatures
House variety of sensory receptors

Front 2

What are the major organs in the Integumentary System?

Back 2

Skin, hair, nails, sweat glands, and sebaceous glands

Front 3

What are the major organs in the Skeletal System?

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Bones, ligaments, cartilages (bind bones together at joints)

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What are the major functions of the Skeletal System

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Serves as framework and protection for softer tissues
Attachment for muscles
Act together with muscles when body parts move
Tissue within bones also produces blood cells and stores inorganic salts

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What are the major functions of the Muscular Sytem?

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By contacting and pulling ends closer together thy provide the forces that cause body movements
Maintain posture
Primary source of body heat

Front 6

What are the major organs in the Nervous System?

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Brain, spinal cord, nerves, sense organs

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What are the major functions of the Nervous System?

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Use nerve impulses to communicate with muscles and glands
Detect Change
Receive and interpret impulses from sensory units
Stimulate muscles and glands

Front 8

What are the major functions of the Endocrine System?

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Alter Metabolism of target tissue or body structures
Occur over long period of time

Front 9

What are the major organs in the Cardiovascular System?

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Heart, arteries, capillaries, veins and blood

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What are the major functions of the Cardiovascualr System?

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Forces blood through the blood vessels
Transports gases, nutrients, hormones and waste
Carries oxygen from the lungs and nutrients from digestive organs into all body cells
Transports hormones from endocrine glands to target tissues

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What are the major organs in the Lymphatic System?

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Lyphatic vessels, lymph nodes, thymus gland, and spleen

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What are the major functions of the Lymphatic System?

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Transports fluids from spaces within tissue back to bloodstream
Carries fatty substances away from the digestive organs
Defend body against infection

Front 13

What are the major organs in the Digestive System?

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Mouth, tongue, teeth, salivary glands, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, small intestine, and large intestine

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What are are major functions of the Digestive System?

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Receives foods from outside
Break down food molecules into simpler forms so they can pass through cell membranes and be absorbed into the internal environment
Eliminate unabsorbed material

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What are the major functions of the Respiratory System?

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Take air in and out
exchange gasses between the blood and air

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What are the major functions of the Urinary System?

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Removes wastes from blood
Maintains the bodies water and electrolyte balance
Store Urine and transport it outside the body

Front 17

What are the major organs int he Urinary System?

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Kidneys, ureters, urinary bladder, and urethra

Front 18

What are the major organs in the Male reproductive System?

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Scrotum, testes, epididymides, vas deferentia, seminal vesicles, prostate gland, bulbourethral glands, urethra, penis

Front 19

What are the major functions of the Male Reproductive System?

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Produce and maintain sperm cells
Transfers sperm cells into the female reproductive tract
Maintain female sex cells

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What are the major organs in the Female Reproductive System?

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Ovaries, uterine tubes, uterus, vagina, clitoris, vulva

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What are the major functions of the Female Reproductive System?

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Receive male sex cells
Transport female sex cells
Supports development of embryos
Function in birth process

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What are the organs in the Endocrine System?

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Glands that secret chemical messages called Hormones (Pituitary gland, thyroid gland, parathyroid glands, adrenal glands, pancreas,. Ovaries, testes, pineal gland, and thymus gland)