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| muscles that straighten the wrist, hand, and fingers to form a straight line |
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| thick-walled, muscular, flexible tubes carrying oxygenated blood away from the heart |
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| the largest and most complex organization of nerve tissue that controls sensation, the muscles, glandular activity, and the power to think, sense, and feel |
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| broad muscle that covers the top of the skull and consists of the occipitalis and frontalis |
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| nerves that affect the side of the neck |
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| its chief function is to carry water, oxygen, and food to all cells and tissues of the body |
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| the nerve where touch, cold, heat, sight, sound, taste, smell, pain, and pressure are experienced |
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| responsible for bringing nutrients to the cells and carry away waste materials |
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| muscle that moves the little toe |
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| whitish cords that are made up of bundles of nerve fibers, and are held together by connective tissue, through which impulses are transmitted |
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| artery that supplies blood to the sides and crown of the head |
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| muscle of the forearm that rotates the radius outward and the palm upward |
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| an automatic reaction to a stimulus that involves the movement of an impulse from a sensory receptor |
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| supplies blood to the little-finger 0f the arm and palm of the hand |
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| large, flat, triangular muscle covering the lower back |
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| nerves that carry impulses from the brain to the muscles or glands |
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| tube-like structures that include the arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venules, and veins |
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part of the muscle that does not move and is closet to the skeleton is ORIGIN
middle part of the muscle is the BELLY
part of the muscle furthest away from the skeleton is the INSERTION |
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| the chief motor nerve of the face |
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| a cup-like valves that keeps blood flowing in one direction to the heart and prevents blood from flowing backward |
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| the largest and longest nerve in the body |
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| percentage of water contained in blood |
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| body system that covers, shapes, holds, the skeletal system in place |
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| body system that consists of the heart, arteries, veins, and capillaries |
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| body system responsible for controlling and coordinating all other systems of the body and makes them work harmoniously and efficiently |
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