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Integumentary System
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Includes: Skin, hair, nails, sweat glands and sebaceous glands.
Protect underlying tissues, help regulate body temperature, house sensory receptors and synthesize certain products |
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Skeletal System
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Consists of bones, ligaments and cartilages that bind bones together.
Provide frameworks and protective shields for softer tissues. Are attachments for muscles and act with muscles when body parts move. Tissues within bones also produce blood cells and store inorganic salts. |
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Muscular System
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Contracting and pulling their ends closer together, muscles provide forces that move body parts. Maintain posture and are the main source of body heat.
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Nervous System
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Brain, spinal cord, nerves and sense organs.
nerve cells communicate with each other and muscles and glands using electrochemical signals called nerve impulses. |
Nerve Impulses
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Endocrine System
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Includes all the glands that secrete chemical messengers called hormones.
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Hormones
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