Fill in the Blanks

1. Reduced fluid losses in urine due to the reduction of sodium ions and water is the result of the action of: _______________________________.

2. Five functions of the respiratiory system are:
a.

b.

c.

d.

e.


3. Air pressure is lower in which - the lung or pleural cavity (outside of lung)?


4. Which gas can cross the blood-brain barrier to reach the medulla oblongata - causing unconsciousness or death? __________

5. Which type of heart failure can cause pulonary edema - right or left?

6. What type of patient would have no residual air in their lungs? ______________

7. What type of peristalsis happens in the lower intestinal tract? ______________

8. Archebald's plexis is part of which nervous system? ________________________

9. In the small intestine, villae are for ____________________ and pits are for ______________________.

10. In the stomach, the cardiac sphincter is a _________________ sphincter while the phyloric sphincter is a ______________ sphincter.