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Components: Skin, hair, nails, sweat flands and oil glands
Function: Protects body, helps regulate temperature, eliminates some waste, helps synthesize Vit D and detects sensation such as touch, pain, warmth and cold |
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Components: Bones and Joints of the body and their associated cartilages
Fx: Supports and protects the body, provides a surface area for muscle attachments; aids body movements; houses cells that produce blood cells; stores mineral and lipids |
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Components: Muscles composed of skeletal muscle tissue
Fx: Produces body movements such as walking stabilization and generating heat |
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Components: Brain, spinal cord, nerves, and special sense organs (eye and ear)
Fx: Generates action potenetials to regulate body activities; detects changes in body internal and external environment, interprets the changes and responds by causing muscular contractions or glandular secretions |
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Components: Hormone-producing glands (Pineal, hypothalamus, pituitary, thymus, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, pancreas, ovaries and testes)
Fx: Regulates body activities by releasing hormones, which are chemical messengers transported in blood from an endocrine gland to a target organ |
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Components: Blood, heart and blood vessels
Fx: Heart pumps blood, blood carries O2 and nutrients to cells and CO2 away; regulates acid-base balance, temperature and water content of body fluid; fight disease and mend broken blood vessels |
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Components: Lymph, spleen, thymus, lymph nodes and tonsils
Fx: RTN proteins and fluid to blood; carries lipids from GI tract to blood |
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COmponents: Lungs, pharynx(throat), larynx(voice box), trachea(windpipe), and bronchial tubes
Fx: Transfers oxygen from inhaled air to blood and CO2 from blood; regulates acid-based balance, produces sound |
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Components: Organs of GI tract, mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small and large intestine and anus
Fx: achieves physical and chemical breakdown of food, absorbs nutrients; eliminates solid waste |
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Components: Kidneys, ureters, urinary bladders and urethra
Fx: produces stores and eliminates urine; eliminates wastes and regulates volume and chemical composition of blood; maintaines acid-base balance; mineral balance; production of red blood cells |
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Components: Males; testes
Women; Ovaries
Fx: production of gametes that unite to form a new organism; gonads also release hormones that regulate reproduction and other body processes; associated organs transport and store gametes |
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