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How many calories equal 1 pound of body fat?
3000 calories
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What is anemia?
Having too few red blood cells or too little hemoglobin
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What are antibodies?
Produced in response to the presence of a nonself antigen
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What are antigens?
Chemical that stimulates lymphocytes to produce antibodies
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What is an aorta?
An artery that receives blood from the left ventricle
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What is arteriosclerosis?
The hardening of blood vessels
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What is arterosclerosis?
The narrowing of arteries
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What is an atria?
It receives blood from body and it is the top 2 chambers in the heart
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What is an atrialventricular node?
A specialized mass of cardiac muscle fibers that transmits cardiac impulses from sinoatrial node to ventricles and causes them to contract
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What are the blood protein types and their information?
- Serum albumin- regulates osmotic pressure and maintains blood volume
- Serum globulin- produces antibodies
- fibrinogen- aids in clot formation
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What is a calorie?
The amount of energy needed to raise 1 gram of water 1 degree
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What are capillaries?
Small blood vessel that connects veins to arteries
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What are the information about carbohydrates?
- They are an energy source.
- 3 classifications- polysaccharides, monosaccharides, and disaccharides
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What is cardiac muscle?
- Cells that work together and gives the body more strength.
- Found in the heart.
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What is the cardiac sphincter?
A thick ring of smooth muscle and prevents reflux of gastric contents from the stomach to the esophagus
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What is cholesterol?
Foud in cell membranes, helps synthesize bile salts, vitamin D, and steroid hormones.
Sources- saturated fats (eggs,meats, dairy)
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What is a coenzyme?
Organic molecule that activates certain enzymes
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What is the common bile duct?
It empties things into the duodenum and unites with the cystic duct
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What are coronary arteries?
Supplies blood to the wall of the heart
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What is diastolic pressure?
Lowest arterial blood pressure reached during diastolic phase of the cardiac cycle
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What is an edema?
The accumulation of fluid within tissure space
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What is emulsification?
The conversion of big fats to little fats
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What is the epiglottis?
Flap like structure that closes trachea during swallowing and prevents food from entering the lower respiratory tract
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What are erythrocytes and their information?
red blood cells that are produced in red bone marrow. 1-120 days lifespan. transports oxygen
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What are the types and characteristics of fats?
- Types- saturates, unsaturated, and polyunsaturated.
- Functions- energy source, builds myelin sheath, makes cells membrane, and hormones
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What is the gall bladder?
Store bile and has walls with smooth muscles
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What is a glycoprotein?
A compound composed of a carbohydrate and protein
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What is HCL?
Secreted by parietal cells in stomach to deactivate amylase
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What is the general information about the heart?
Foundin thoracic cavity, 70-80 beats per minute, and has 4 chambers
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What are the heart valves?
- mitral valve, pulmonary valve, and aortic valve.
- They keep the blood flowing in 1 direction
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What is hemoglobin?
Oxygen carrying pigment in red blood cells
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What is hemophilia?
An inherited clotting disorder
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What is heparin?
Stops spontaneous clotting produced in liver
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What is the hepatic duct?
Connects liver to the common bile duct
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What is high densite lipoprotein (HDL)?
Good cholesterol. Helps remove excess cholesterol from artery walls and transport back to the liver
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What is hydrolysis?
Adding water molecules to split a molecule into smaller portions
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What is the ileocecal sphincter?
Prevents chyme from leaving small intestine early and allows the passage of chyme into large intestine
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Know the movement of blood through the heart
Review diagram
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what is lacteal?
the lymphatic capillary with a cillus of the small intestine
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what are leukocytes and their information?
- white blood cells. some have amoebid type movement.
- has nucleus, but no mitosis (if normal)
- 1 wbc= 700 rbc
- 1-14 day lifespan
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what is the live information?
- 2 lobes- right and left.
- functions- carb+lipid+protein metabolism, storage, bile secretion, detoxification, and blood filtering.
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what is a low density lipoprotein?
bad cholesterol. transports cholesterol to other cells. deposited in artery walls during high concentration.
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what are macronutrients?
the nutrients required in large amounts (carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins)
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what is mesentery?
a fold of peritoneal membrane that attaches an abdominal organ to the abdominal wall
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what are micronutrients?
the nutrients required in small amounts (vitamins and minerals)
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what is the information on minerals?
functions- heartbeat, blood clotting, nerve impulse transmission, gas transport, muscle contraction, metabolism, synthesis of hormones/enzymes, and builds teeth/bones.
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what is monomorphonucleated?
they produce antibodies, chemical defnse, lymphocytes, and monocytes.
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what is the pancreatic duct?
the place where pancreatic juices are excreted into the duodenum
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what is the pericardial cavity?
The space between the visceral and parietal pericardial membranes
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what is pericardial fluid?
It fills the space between the membrane and the heart
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what is the pericardium?
serous membrane that surrounds the heart
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what is peristalsis?
wave-like motion and pushes ingested food forward
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what is the peritoneum?
serous membrane that lines the abdominal cavity and encloses the abdominal viscera.
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what are phagocytosis?
process which a cell engulfs and digests solids
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what is plasma?
fluid portion of circulating blood
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what is polymorphonucleated?
phagocytes, mechanical digestion, neutrophils, basophils, and eosinophils.
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what are the characteristics and types of proteins?
- types- complete and imcomplete.
- functions- enzymes, contractile proteins, collagen, certain hormones, antibodies.
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what is a pyloric sphincter?
A thick ring of smooth muscle that prevents chyme from leaving the stomach early
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what is a rho-gam?
an anti-RH+ antibody serum for mothers with an AH-baby
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what are the characteristics of saturated fats?
solid at room temperature. comes from animals.
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what is a sinoatrial node?
Specialized tissue that initiates cardiac cycle: pacemaker, regulates heartbeat, and atria contracts
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what is the information on the small intestine?
- parts- duodenum, jejunum, ileum
- secretions- mucus, serous fluid, digestive enzymes
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what is streptokinase?
medicine to dissolve blood clots
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what is systolic pressure?
peak arterial blood pressure reached during the systolic phase of the cardiac cycle.
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what are thrombocytes and their information?
platelets. They aide in clotting. smallest blood cells.
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what are the characteristics of unsaturated fats?
good. liquid at room temperature. come from plants.
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what is a vagus nerve?
medulla sends an impulse by means of the nerve to the heart.
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what are ventricles?
hey receive blood from atria and contract to force blood out of the heart into arteries.
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what are the villi?
fingerlike projections that extend outward from the lining of the small intestine.
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what are the information on vitamins?
they speed up metabolism and form parts of coenzymes.
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what is hypertonic?
solution with a greater osmotic pressure then the solution with which it's compared.
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what is hypotonic?
solution with a lower osmotic pressure then the solution with which it's compared.
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