“Did you know that the network of capillaries in the human body is about 50‚000 to 60‚000 miles long?” The circulatory system is formed with two major organs‚ the heart and the blood vessels‚ which includes arteries‚ veins‚ and capillaries. The capillaries are the thinnest type of blood vessel in the body but are one of the most important in the circulatory system. There are three major different types of capillaries: continuous‚ fenestrated‚ and discontinuous or sinusoid. The reason there are three
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The Organ Systems of the Human Body The human body is made up of 11 organ systems. The Integumentary System‚ Skeletal System‚ Muscular System‚ Nervous System‚ Endocrine System‚ Circulatory System‚ Lymphatic System‚ Respiratory System‚ Urinary System‚ Digestive System‚ and Reproductive System for the male and female. Also‚ we have the Immune System which is an accumulation of cells rather than an organ system. Protection‚ support and movement are the main functions of the Integumentary system
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An Introduction to the Human Body 1. This is the study of the functions of body structures. a. Physiology 2. This is defined as a group of cells with similar structure and function. b. Tissue 3. Using your fingers to find your pulse on your wrist is an example of c. Palpation 4. Percussion techniques can be used to determine d. Fluid in the lungs 5. This is the sum of all cellular processes that occur in the body. e. Metabolism
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The Effects of Caffeine on the Human Body I. In a quote by Eddie Vedder‚ I read "Caffeine‚ the Gateway drug." Around 90 percent of Americans consume caffeine every single day in one form or another. Consuming as little as 100 mg of caffeine a day can lead a person to become "dependent" on caffeine‚ yet it is legal and unregulated in many jurisdictions. Making it the most popular drug by far. In this speech I am going to explain how caffeine affects the Human body. II. Caffeine is believed to work
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range of shapes‚ ranging from spheres to rods and spirals. Bacteria are ubiquitous in every habitat on Earth‚ growing in soil‚ acidic hot springs‚ radioactive waste‚[2] water‚ and deep in the Earth’s crust‚ as well as in organic matter and the live bodies of plants and animals. There are typically 40 million bacterial cells in a gram of soil and a million bacterial cells in a millilitre of fresh water; in all‚ there are approximately five nonillion (5×1030) bacteria on Earth‚[3] forming a biomass on
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Those who are advocates for animal testing‚ argue that the initial testing on animals will ensure the safety of human consumers‚ once the tested
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1. The ________________ are located at the top of the brain and contain the somatosensory cortex‚ which receives information about pressure‚ pain‚ touch‚ and temperature from all over the body. Parietal lobes 2. A __________________________ neither increases nor decreases the probability of a behavior. Neutral consequence 3. _____________________won a Nobel Prize for his work with salivating dogs and his theory of classical conditioning. Ivan Pavlov 4. ________________was an early twentieth
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The Integumentary system is considered the largest system in the human body that protects it from various kinds of damage‚ however this does not prevent skin disorders to appear. Keloids is a skin disorder that results from the overgrowth of scar tissue that occurs at the site of a skin injury. They occur where trauma‚ surgery‚ blisters‚ vaccinations‚ acne or body piercing have injured the skin. Keloids can affect any part of the body‚ but they are most commonly found on the chest. According
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in the human body highest? Infancy 2. In elderly individuals‚ 75% of body weight is made up of fluid. True False 3. When comparing two individuals of the same body weight‚ the one with more muscle and less fat will have a higher percentage of fluid in their body. 4. When comparing a lean adult female to a lean adult male‚ which will most likely have a higher percentage of body fluid? The Male 5. Fluid imbalances are more common in individuals with a _________ percentage of body fluid.
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The body is made up of a number of systems that all interlink and produce everything we need in order to survive. Within the body there is the digestive system; the circulatory system‚ the nervous system‚ the muscular system‚ the skeletal system and the reproductive system. These systems are all part of one another and they share organs‚ tissues and cells and that is how they interlink. The diagram above shows each system and where they are located in the body. Each system is shown in a different
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