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| What is the purpose of body fluids? |
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| Protection, Insulation, Cushioning, support and provision of a moist enviroment |
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| What is the function of blood? |
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| Transport and helps regulate body temprature |
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| What is is blood composed off? |
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| Where is intracellular fluid found? |
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| What is the function of intracellular fluid? |
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| it is a medium for life support |
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| Where is intercellular fluid found? |
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| What is the function of intercellular fluid? |
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| traps foreign matter and provides a enviroment vital to cell survial. |
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| Where is lymph fluid found? |
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| What is the function of lymph fluid? |
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| Recirculates fluid and substances, destroys foreign matter and provides an immune response |
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| Where is cerebrospinal fluid found? |
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| within the central nervous system |
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| What is the function of the cerebrospinal fluid? |
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| lubrication and shock absorption |
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| What is the function of Endolymph fluid? |
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| monitors movement and balance |
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| Where is Endolymph found? |
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| What is the function Synovial fluid? |
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| lubrication and shock absorption and support and Nutrition for joint cartliges |
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| Where is Humor fluid found? |
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| What is the function of the Humor fluid? |
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| Where is the Lacrimal fluid found? |
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| What is the function of the Lacrimal fluid? |
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| lubrication and nutrition to external eye, protection |
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| Found in the mouth and contains digestive jucies |
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| Where is digestive jucies found? |
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| Stomach, pancreas & small intestines |
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| What is the function of digestive jucies? |
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| Break down food substances |
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| What is the purpose of bile fluid? |
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| In the liver and gall bladder |
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| What is the function of Seminal fluid? |
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| Transportation and protection |
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| Where is seminal fluid found? |
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| What is the function of urine? |
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| in the kidneys and bladder |
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| What is the function of sweat? |
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| remove waste from energy production |
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| in the In the air passage and nasal cavity ( alimentary canal |
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| What is the purpose of muccous? |
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| Binds foreign matter, food and waste |
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| Where is serous fluid found? |
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| Between tissues and organs |
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| What is the purpose of serous fluid? |
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| What is the function of the Nervous system? |
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| Orientation, coordination, regulation & homeostasis |
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| What is the function the endocrine system? |
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| Production and seacretion into the blood. sends chemical messengers thru hormones |
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| What are the two divsions to the nervous system? |
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| Central nervous system & peripheral nervous system |
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| What is the function Central nervous system? |
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| Has controling tissue and transmission tissue |
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| What is the name of the two systems in the peripheral nervous system? |
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| Somatic nervous system & autonomic nervous system |
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| What organs are in the CNS |
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| What organs are in the PNS |
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| What is the function of the Somatic nervous system? |
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| Transmissons to the rest of the bosy - messages to the skeletal muscels |
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| What fibres so the Somatic nervous system contain? |
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afferant & efferant fibres
Cranial nerves and spinal nerves |
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| What is the function of the autonomic nervous system? |
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| sends messages from the organs to the nerves to the viscera |
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| What two responses can the efferant nerves have |
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| sympathetic and parasympathetic response |
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| A sympathetic response does what? |
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| speeds up the message - goes thru the thorax and lumber regions |
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| A parasympathetic response does what? |
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| slows down the message - goes thru the cranium and sacrum area |
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| in the nervous system what are the protective membranes called? |
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Dura Mater
Arachnoid
Pia Mater |
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| Where is the cerebrospinal fluid found? |
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| Produced in the brain and spinal cord |
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| What is the function of the cerebrospinal fluid? |
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| Lubrication, protection and monitors carbon dioxide levels |
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| What does gray matter do? |
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| control (diciphers, decides & initiates) |
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| What does white matter do? |
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| transmits messages (within and beyond CNS) |
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| What is the function of impulses? |
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| physiochemical changes in nerve fibres, muscle contraction |
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| What is the function of nerves |
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| connects the CNS with the body |
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| What nerves sends messages to the CNS |
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| Where does efferant nerves send messages to? |
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| From the CNS to the skeletal system (muscles) |
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