Samantha Victoria Teas Exam Flashcards

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Circulatory System

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-AKA cardiovasculair system
- consists of: the heart, blood vessels, and blood
- supports the circulation and distribution of various substances throughout the body (oxygen, hormones, nutrients).

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Digestive System

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Consists of: all organs from the mouth to the anus involved in the ingestion and breakdown or proessing of food.
- Include: esophagus, stomach, small/large intestines, rectum, anus.
-The digestive system manufactues enzymes that break down food so that the nutrients can be easily passed into the blood four use throughout the body.
-Any food digested is expelled through the anus
- the absorption of nutirents acutally occurs in the small intestine, which consists of the duodenum, jujunum, and ileum.
- after that the colon removes water from the waste that remains.
-the two other organs included in the digestive syster are teh liver and pancreas.
LIVER- produces bile that helps break down fats
PANCREAS- delivers enzymes to the small intestine that aid in digestion.

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Endocrine System

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-serves to control body functions
-glands in the endocrine system secrete hormones that ravel through the blood to organs throughout the body.
- Pineal, pituitary thalamus hypothalamus thyroid thymus and adrenal regulate processes such as growth and metabolism.
-The pancreas, testies and ovaries also have endocrine functions even though they are part of other body system.

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Integumentary System

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Skin, mucous membranes, hair, nails.
-Protects internal tissues from injury, waterproofs the body, and helps regulate the bodys temperature.
- This system also serves as a barrier to pathogens

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Lymphatic System

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Lymph nodes, Lymph vessels (that carry lymph), the spleen, the thymus, and the tonsils, which are made of lymphoid tissue.
- It supports the immune system by housing and transporting while blood cells to and from lymph noeds.
- The lymphatic system also returns fluid that has leaked from the cardiovascular system back into the blood vessels.

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Muscular System

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-Skeletal muscles, tendons that connect muscles to bones, and ligaments that attach bones together to form joints.
- The cardiac and smooth muscles are not included in this organ system

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Nervous System

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Consists of; the brain, spinal cord, and nerves.
-Serves as the bodies control system
- Sensory receptors detect stimuli that can occur both inside and outside the body
-the conduction of nervous impulses along nerves is extremely fast, making it possible for immediate reflexive responses to protect the body from threats.
-once a threat is detected, the nervous system activates the appropriate muscles or glands to respond.

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Reproductive System

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Produce Offspring (main purpose)
- Testes, Penis, Ovaries, Vagina, and Breats
- Men produce sperm and in women to produce eggs
- The reproductive organs also house hormones that encourage or suppress activiestes within the body and influence the development of masculine or feminine body characteristics.

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Respiratory System

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Keeps he bodys cells supplied with oxygen and removes carbon dioxide as it is releases from cells.
- Consists of the nasal cavity, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, and lungs
- The lungs house tiny air sacs called alveoli, it is thorugh the walls of the alveoli that oxygen and carbon dioxide move in adn out of the lungs via small blood vessels called arterioles.

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Skeletal System

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-Provies support and protections for the body and its organs and supplies a framework that, when used in conjunctions with the muscels, creates movement.
- Consists of; bones, cartilage, ligaments and joints.
-also serves as storage for minerals such as calcium and phosphorus.

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Urinary System

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-Excretory system helps maintain the water and electrolyte (sodium, chloride, and potassium are electrolytes) balance within the body, regulates the acid-base balance of blood, and removes all nitrogen-contaning wastes from the body.
-The nitrogen- contaning wastes are by- porducts of the breakdown of proteins and nucleic acids.