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What is antidiuretic hormone (ADH)?
The hormone that causes the kidneys to save body fluid by decreasing the amount of urine.
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What is smooth, cardiac, and skeletal muscles?
List the 3 types of muscles.
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What is the femur?
The longest bone in the body.
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What is ingestion?
Eating or taking in food.
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What are 4 chambers?
The number of chambers in the heart.
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What are kidneys?
The adrenal glands sit on this organ.
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What is cardiac muscle?
This muscle pumps blood throughout the body.
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What are long, short, flat, and irregular bones?
The 4 types of bones.
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What is the epiglottis?
The flap that covers the the windpipe when you swallow.
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What is the septum?
The wall that separates the left and right side of the heart.
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What is the thyroid gland?
Endocrine gland that regulates the bodies metabolism.
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What is the deltoid muscle?
Muscle that helps to move your shoulder.
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What is 206 bones?
The average amount of bones in the adult body.
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What is the gallbladder?
Bile is stored here until needed.
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What are veins?
The tubes that carry blood back to the heart.
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What is adrenal glands?
The gland that secretes epinephrine.
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What are tendons?
Connects bones and muscles together.
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What is osteocytes?
Term for mature bone cells.
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What are parotids?
The salivary glands produce amylase.
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What is 2 seconds or less?
The capillary refill time. (Seconds)
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What is prolactin?
Important hormone that allows the flow of breast milk in pregnant women.
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What are the hamstrings?
The muscle group responsible for flexion at the knee when a footballer prepares to kick a football.
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What is osteoporosis?
Health condition that weakens bones, making them fragile and more likely to break. It develops slowly over several years and is often only diagnosed when a fall or sudden impact causes a bone to break (fracture).
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What is gravity and peristalsis?
The 2 things that move food through the digestive tract.
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What is the pulmonary artery?
Vessels that carry deoxygenated blood away from the heart.
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