QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT SOLUTIONS.
What is largest gland in the body correct answers Liver
How many phalanges are in the foot? correct answers 14
Which hormone promotes gestation during the menstrual cycle? correct answers Progesterone
Name the small sac in which bile made from the liver is stored until needed in the duodenum for
fat digestion? correct answers Gall Bladder
What type of metabolism is urea the final product of? correct answers Protein
What is the collective term for the external female genitalia? correct answers Vulva
The pituitary gland can be referred to as the "master" gland and what other name? correct
answers Hypophyseal Gland
Name the male germ Cell that unites with the female egg during fertilization correct answers
Spermatazoon
What cells in the cochlea are considered the true organs of hearing? correct answers Organ of
Corti
What is the name given to the smallest veins? correct answers Venules
What gland secretes the oily fluid, sebum? correct answers Sebaceous Gland
What is the name of a form of sugar that it is a product of starch metabolism in the body? correct
answers Glucose
What lines the majority of the inner surface of the sclera and absorbs light after it has passed
through the retina? correct answers Choroid
What is the name for the intermixing of molecules of a liquid or gas so that they are equally
concentrated? correct answers Diffusion
What substance is contained in the medullary canal of long bones and in cancellous tissue of all
bone types? correct answers Bone Marrow
What element is stored in the thyroid gland and is necessary for the production of thyroid
hormones? correct answers Iodine
, Name the tubes found within the inner ear that provide information about the position of the head
in space, contributing to the maintenance of equilibrium and balance correct answers
Semicircular canals
What odourless, colourless gas excreted by the lungs is produced in tissue cells as a by-product
of metabolism? correct answers Carbon Dioxide
What is the name of the period of 42 days following birth? correct answers Puerperium
Provide the name of the external opening of the urethra correct answers Meatus
What system of ducts and glands secrete and conduct tears? correct answers Lacrimal
Rings of what type of tissue are found embedded in the muscular walls of the trachea? correct
answers Cartilage
Name the FIRST of the three ossicles in the middle ear? correct answers Malleus
Name the longest bone in the body correct answers Femur
Hairs grow from the base of which structures? correct answers Follicles
Where are olfactory receptors located? correct answers Nose
In which bone are the upper teeth located? correct answers Maxilla
Which area of the brain shares concern for the respiratory function with the pons varolii? correct
answers Medulla Oblongata
The spleen is part of which body system? correct answers Lymphatic system
What is an ovum? correct answers Egg cell
How many layers of tissue make up the pericardium? correct answers Two
What is the medical term for the contraction stage of the cardiac cycle? correct answers Systole
Name the tubes which extend from each of the kidneys to the bladder that convey urine correct
answers Ureters
Name the circular muscle that controls the opening of the anus correct answers Anal Sphincter
In which organ is the voice created? correct answers Larynx
What is the name of the space between the vagina and the rectum or the scrotum and the rectum?
correct answers Perineum