HESI A2 UPDATED EVALUATION EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What are the 2 types of sweat glands? - ✔✔ecrine & apocrine
✔✔What do ecrine sweat glands produce? - ✔✔Sweat. Regulate body temperature.
✔✔What do apocrine sweat glands produce? - ✔✔Secretions contain bits of cytoplasm
from cells, attracting bacteria that produces body odor.
✔✔What do sebaceous glands secrete? - ✔✔They secrete sebum through the hair
follicles, which lubricates the skin and prevents drying.
✔✔What secretion produces oil? - ✔✔Holocrine secretion.
✔✔What are sebaceous glands prone to during adolescence? - ✔✔Becoming clogged
and attracting bacteria.
✔✔What protein composes the hair and skin? - ✔✔Keratin
✔✔What makes the body's framework? - ✔✔Bone, cartilage, ligaments & joints.
, ✔✔What are the functions of the skeletal system? - ✔✔Support, movement, blood cell
formation, protection of internal organs, detoxification, muscle attachment, mineral
storage. *A MIME BATHED SEALS SINGING "MY PONY"*
✔✔How are bones classified? - ✔✔By shape.
Long
Short
flat
irregular
sesamoid
*LEMURS SING SALSA FOR INDIANS*
✔✔What is the name for the cells that compose compact bone? - ✔✔Osteoblasts
✔✔What occurs to osteoblasts when they become fixed in the dense bone matrix? -
✔✔They stop dividing but continue to maintain body tissues as osteocytes.
✔✔How many bones make up the axial skeleton? - ✔✔28 bones of the skull. 14-facial,
14-cranium.
✔✔How many bones make the facial skeleton? - ✔✔2 nasal bones
2 maxillary bones
2 zygomatic bones
1 mandible
2 palatine bones
1 vomer
2 lacrimal bones
2 inferior nasal bones
✔✔What are the bones of the cranium? - ✔✔single occipital
frontal
ethmoid
sphenoid
paired parietal
temporal
ossicles
✔✔What bone structures are in the ossicles (ears) ? - ✔✔malleus, incus, stapes
✔✔How many bones make the skeletal column? - ✔✔33 bones
✔✔How many cervical vertebrae in the skeletal column? - ✔✔7
✔✔How many thoracic vertebrae in the skeletal column? - ✔✔12
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What are the 2 types of sweat glands? - ✔✔ecrine & apocrine
✔✔What do ecrine sweat glands produce? - ✔✔Sweat. Regulate body temperature.
✔✔What do apocrine sweat glands produce? - ✔✔Secretions contain bits of cytoplasm
from cells, attracting bacteria that produces body odor.
✔✔What do sebaceous glands secrete? - ✔✔They secrete sebum through the hair
follicles, which lubricates the skin and prevents drying.
✔✔What secretion produces oil? - ✔✔Holocrine secretion.
✔✔What are sebaceous glands prone to during adolescence? - ✔✔Becoming clogged
and attracting bacteria.
✔✔What protein composes the hair and skin? - ✔✔Keratin
✔✔What makes the body's framework? - ✔✔Bone, cartilage, ligaments & joints.
, ✔✔What are the functions of the skeletal system? - ✔✔Support, movement, blood cell
formation, protection of internal organs, detoxification, muscle attachment, mineral
storage. *A MIME BATHED SEALS SINGING "MY PONY"*
✔✔How are bones classified? - ✔✔By shape.
Long
Short
flat
irregular
sesamoid
*LEMURS SING SALSA FOR INDIANS*
✔✔What is the name for the cells that compose compact bone? - ✔✔Osteoblasts
✔✔What occurs to osteoblasts when they become fixed in the dense bone matrix? -
✔✔They stop dividing but continue to maintain body tissues as osteocytes.
✔✔How many bones make up the axial skeleton? - ✔✔28 bones of the skull. 14-facial,
14-cranium.
✔✔How many bones make the facial skeleton? - ✔✔2 nasal bones
2 maxillary bones
2 zygomatic bones
1 mandible
2 palatine bones
1 vomer
2 lacrimal bones
2 inferior nasal bones
✔✔What are the bones of the cranium? - ✔✔single occipital
frontal
ethmoid
sphenoid
paired parietal
temporal
ossicles
✔✔What bone structures are in the ossicles (ears) ? - ✔✔malleus, incus, stapes
✔✔How many bones make the skeletal column? - ✔✔33 bones
✔✔How many cervical vertebrae in the skeletal column? - ✔✔7
✔✔How many thoracic vertebrae in the skeletal column? - ✔✔12
