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41 Cards in this Set
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What is the largest artery in the body, this also branches supplies to the blood?
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Aorta
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What carries blood away from the heart?
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Artery
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What is in the upper of top chambers in the heart?
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Atrium
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What are the smallest vessels?
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Capillary
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Erythrocyte...AKA?
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Red Blood Cells
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What system contains kidneys, ureters, urethra, and bladder?
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Excretory
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What muscle that pumps blood, this also has four chambers?
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Heart
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What ironing containing pigment that makes your blood red?
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Hemoglobin
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What is a steady state throughout your body?
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Homeostasis
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What filters waste from the blood?
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Kidneys
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Leukocytes.....AKA
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White Blood Cells
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What makes carries blood toward your heart?
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Vein
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What divides right and left sides of the hearts?
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Septum
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What stores temporarily stores urine?
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Urinary Bladder
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Name the three components of the circulatory system?
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Heart, Blood Vessels, Blood
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What is a common waste substance in the urine that is produced from protein digestion?
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Urea
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What is another name for an artificial kidney?
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Dialysis Machine
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How does blood fight infections?
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The leukocytes engulf and digest bacteria and produce antibodies
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What causes your pulse?
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Your heart pumps blood through your veins
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What sits on top of kidneys and produces epinephrine (aka adrenaline)?
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adrenal gland
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What carry impulses away?
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Axon
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What part of the neuron contains the nucleus?
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Cell Body
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What system consist of the brain and spinal cord?
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Central Nervous System
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What are cells in the eyes that are responsible for censoring colors?
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Cone
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What receives impulses from cell body's?
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Dendrite
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What system is a collection of glands that produce hormones?
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Endocrine System
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What is the chemical messenger that is made in the gland and gets carried by the blood?
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Hormone
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What is another name for a nerve cell?
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Neuron
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What systems controls bodily movements and many internal functions?
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Nervous System
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What system branches off from brain and spinal cord?
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Peripheral Nervous System
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What is considered the "master gland" and it has an influence on all other glands produces reaction to a stimulus?
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Reflex
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What distinguishes between light and dark?
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Rod
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What organs contain the senses?
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Sense Organs
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What is apart of the CNS and protects the nerves cord?
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Spinal Cord
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What is the space between the neurons?
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Synapse
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What gland produces thyroxin and controls the body's metabolism?
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Thyroid Gland
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What organ is no "longer functioning"?
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Vestigial Organs
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Tube to Bladder is?
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Uretha
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Do Red Blood Cells produce antibodies?
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yes
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What do White Blood Cells fight?
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Infections
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What gland produces insulin?
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Pancreas
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