A & P 2 Lecture Exam Review Flashcards

Whether the lymphatic system is involved in circulation, immunity, and nutrient absorption.

Whether red bone marrow is the point of origin of all immune cells of the lymphatic system.

Whether lymph originates in blood capillaries that pick up tissue fluid

The amount (percentage) recovered by lymphatic vessels of what the fluid filtered by capillaries

Lymph is similar to blood plasma but very low in what substance?

The four forces/factors that help lymph flow

The WBC type that standing guard against parasites and allergens

Each alveolus is surrounded by a web of blood capillaries supplied by what blood vessel

The main bronchus that is about 5cm long and slightly narrower and more horizontal than the one on the opposite side

The name of the area of the left lung where the heart indents

The largest of the larynx cartilages

The law that deals with the relationship between the total pressure of a gas mixture and the sum of the partial pressures of its individual gases

The factor that has the greatest influence on the resistance to pulmonary airflow

The term used to refer to the lungs' resistance to expansion

The term referring to the amount of air in excess of tidal volume that can be inhaled with maximum effort

The components of air volumes contributing to the vital capacity

Name 3 forms of CO2 transport and indicate whether it is transported by means of:

• carbonic acid
• carbonate

The location where T cells achieve immunocompetence in

The lymph organ that show(s) a remarkable degree of degeneration (involution) with age

Whether or not the immune system spans nearly every organ and tissue in the human body

Name the components of the second line of defense, and indicate whether gastric juice is one of them

The name of the cell that secretes perforins, which bore holes in the enemy cell membrane.

The anatomical other name of the voice box

The importance of the cartilage rings in the trachea

A family of substances secreted by cells infected with viruses, alerting neighboring cells and protecting them from becoming infected

What a pyrogen does in the body

The type of immunity that deals with:

• Intracellular viruses
• Extracellular viruses

The type of immunity produced by vaccination

The type of immunity produced by giving serum in emergency treatment of snakebites

Whether naive T cells can synthesize antibodies

The type of ion generated in RBCs by the addition of CO2 to blood, which in turn stimulates RBCs to unload more oxygen

The gas that is found in the highest concentration in the air we breathe

The maximum number of oxygen molecules each hemoglobin molecule can transport

The percentage of oxygen the blood gives up in one passage through a bed of systemic blood capillaries

The form of Co2 that is transported most by the blood

Whether erythrocytes consume any of the oxygen they are transporting

The most numerous cells in the lungs

Whether macrophages are an example of lymphatic tissue

The largest of the lymphatic vessels, and where they empty their lymph into

The type of cells that nonspecifically detect and destroy foreign cells and diseased host cells during the process of immune surveillance

The only lymphatic organ(s) with afferent lymphatic vessels

Whether mucous membranes prevent most pathogens from entering the body because of the stickiness of the mucus and the presence of lysozymes.

The type of immunity associated with:

• Lack of the capacity to remember a pathogen or react differently to it in the future.
• Utilization of memory cells to adapt to a given pathogen and ward it off more easily in the future.

The term for a deficiency of oxygen or the inability to utilize oxygen in a tissue.

The cells of the respiratory tract which produce mucus that plays an important role in cleansing inhaled air

The definition of inspiratory capacity, and whether it is the maximum amount of air the lungs can contain

Whether the pressure gradient of carbon dioxide affect the rate of oxygen diffusion

Bohr effect definition, and whether it implies that a low level of oxyhemoglobin enables the blood to transport more CO2

The name of the air in the conducting zone that is not available for gas exchange upon inspiration

The law which states that the total atmospheric pressure is a sum of the contributions of the individual gases

Whether air enters the alveoli after the terminal bronchi

Whether the expansion of the lungs during inspiration generates a pressure gradient causing air to flow into the lungs can be an example of Boyle's law

The segment of the nephron loop that is impermeable to water

The part of the pharynx that functions only as an air passageway

The cell types the juxtaglomerular apparatus consists of

The alveolar cells that produce the surfactant

The type of immunity attained by giving a critically corona-sick patient an anti-serum from a corona-recovered person

The type of immunity attained by a newly born baby receiving antibodies from the mother’s milk