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A comprehensive list of questions and answers related to various health science topics, including anatomy, physiology, and diseases. It covers topics such as blood vessels, blood cells, organs, and infections, and also discusses terms like aerobic and anaerobic, antisepsis and asepsis, and the chain of infection.
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arteries CORRECT ANSWERS✅ blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart. erythrocytes CORRECT ANSWERS✅ red blood cells hemoglobin CORRECT ANSWERS✅ iron-containing protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen for delivery to cells leukocytes CORRECT ANSWERS✅ White blood cells 95% CORRECT ANSWERS✅ how much of plasma is water? septum CORRECT ANSWERS✅ a wall of tissue that separates the left and right sides of the heart veins CORRECT ANSWERS✅ blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart spleen CORRECT ANSWERS✅ Organ near the stomach that produces, stores, and eliminates blood cells thymus CORRECT ANSWERS✅ a ductless glandular organ at the base of the neck that produces lymphocytes and aids in producing immunity (atrophies with age) alveoli CORRECT ANSWERS✅ tiny air sacs in the lungs
bronchioles CORRECT ANSWERS✅ smallest branches of the bronchi cilia CORRECT ANSWERS✅ The hairlike projections on the outside of cells that move in a wavelike manner (ovaducts & lungs) larynx CORRECT ANSWERS✅ voice box; adam's apple? pharynx CORRECT ANSWERS✅ throat trachea CORRECT ANSWERS✅ windpipe; tube through which air moves esophagus CORRECT ANSWERS✅ food tube connecting the mouth to the stomach kidney CORRECT ANSWERS✅ organ that removes urea, excess water, and other waste products from the blood and passes them to the ureter nephrons CORRECT ANSWERS✅ filtering units of the kidney that remove wastes from the blood and produce urine ureter CORRECT ANSWERS✅ tube that carries urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder urethra CORRECT ANSWERS✅ tube leading from the urinary bladder to the outside of the body
antisepsis CORRECT ANSWERS✅ prevents infection asepsis CORRECT ANSWERS✅ absence of disease-producing organisms endogenous CORRECT ANSWERS✅ originates inside the body exogenous CORRECT ANSWERS✅ originates outside the body fomites CORRECT ANSWERS✅ objects contaminated with infections nosocomial CORRECT ANSWERS✅ get it from hospitals or other health care facilities opportunistic CORRECT ANSWERS✅ infections that occur when body's defenses are weak; AIDS or SKIDS pathogens CORRECT ANSWERS✅ germs malleus, incus, stapes CORRECT ANSWERS✅ 3 parts of middle ear signs of inflammation CORRECT ANSWERS✅ swollen, pain, itchyness, redness prepuce CORRECT ANSWERS✅ foreskin
fimbrae CORRECT ANSWERS✅ finger-like projections in ovaducts lacrimal CORRECT ANSWERS✅ tear glands astigmatism CORRECT ANSWERS✅ a condition in which the eye does not focus properly because of uneven curvatures of the cornea choroid CORRECT ANSWERS✅ dark part of eye; gets light? purkinje's fibers CORRECT ANSWERS✅ helps the heart beat good bolus CORRECT ANSWERS✅ ball of food pulmonary circuit CORRECT ANSWERS✅ blood to lungs herpes CORRECT ANSWERS✅ virus that give blisters sparilla CORRECT ANSWERS✅ Spiral shaped bacteria bacilli CORRECT ANSWERS✅ Rod shaped bacteria cocci CORRECT ANSWERS✅ sphere shaped bacteria
chicken pox, HIV, herpes, mumps, syphilis, common cold CORRECT ANSWERS✅ viral infections hepatitis, strep, staph, impetigo, MERSA CORRECT ANSWERS✅ bacterial infections touch, pain, pressure, heat CORRECT ANSWERS✅ sensory nerves in skin thyroid stimulating hormones CORRECT ANSWERS✅ TSH lungs CORRECT ANSWERS✅ location of emphysema hepatitis CORRECT ANSWERS✅ inflammation of liver starch CORRECT ANSWERS✅ food that digests in mouth myocardial infraction, coronary thrombosis, cardiac arrest CORRECT ANSWERS✅ other names for heart attack 120/80 CORRECT ANSWERS✅ average blood pressure abstinence, protected sex, dont share needles, no blood contact CORRECT ANSWERS✅ ways to avoid HIV
diaphragm CORRECT ANSWERS✅ breathing muscle hemophilia CORRECT ANSWERS✅ free-bleeders; only males t-cell CORRECT ANSWERS✅ blood cell compromising HIV cancer sore, rash, gummas CORRECT ANSWERS✅ syphilis (in order) conjunctivitis CORRECT ANSWERS✅ pink eye myopia CORRECT ANSWERS✅ nearsighted hyperopia CORRECT ANSWERS✅ farsighted capillary CORRECT ANSWERS✅ vessel of exchange retina CORRECT ANSWERS✅ rods & cones rods CORRECT ANSWERS✅ black & white cones CORRECT ANSWERS✅ color
embolus CORRECT ANSWERS✅ moving clot cephalic thrombus CORRECT ANSWERS✅ stroke epistaxis CORRECT ANSWERS✅ nosebleed skin CORRECT ANSWERS✅ body's 1st line of defense mucous membrane CORRECT ANSWERS✅ body's 2nd line of defense leukemia CORRECT ANSWERS✅ cancer in blood platelets CORRECT ANSWERS✅ help blood clot pelvic inflammatory disease CORRECT ANSWERS✅ PID transurethral resection of prostate CORRECT ANSWERS✅ TURP pubic lice, crabs CORRECT ANSWERS✅ parasites transmitted sexually cervix CORRECT ANSWERS✅ end of uterus pap smear CORRECT ANSWERS✅ test for cervical cancer
HPV CORRECT ANSWERS✅ causes cervical cancer pre-menstrual syndrome CORRECT ANSWERS✅ PMS mumps CORRECT ANSWERS✅ inflammation of the parotid glands coughing, sneezing, tears, mucus membrane CORRECT ANSWERS✅ body defenses protein CORRECT ANSWERS✅ food that digests in stomach liver CORRECT ANSWERS✅ fat digests here pituitary gland CORRECT ANSWERS✅ master gland gustation CORRECT ANSWERS✅ sense of taste malaria CORRECT ANSWERS✅ people who have sickle cell anemia do not get this tuberculosis CORRECT ANSWERS✅ a bacterial disease that usually affects the lungs follicle stimulating hormone CORRECT ANSWERS✅ FSH
55% CORRECT ANSWERS✅ how much of blood is plasma