Extra a and p notes 1.02

Appendix

Small tube shaped pouch attached to the cecum of your colon in the right illiac region, not very important but it supports immune system and stores healthy gut bacteria

Cecum

At the lowest part of the colon in the right illiac region, absorbs remaining water and salts from digested food waste, lubricates the poops before they go deeper into the colon

Ascending colon

in the right lumbar region, obsorbs water and salt, waste transportation

Transverse colon

water absorption, waste transport

Decending colon

Left lumbar region, water absorption, waste storage (compacts and holds solid waste)

Sigmoid colon

Water obsorption, waste storage and propulsion, lubrication

Rectum

Stores waste, sends signals to brain when it’s poop time controls poop releas

Ovaries

Small pair of reproductive glands that produce eggs and secret hormones

Fallopian tubes

Two things muscular ducts that connect the ovaries to the uterus

Duodenum

The first part of the small intestine that connects to the stomach, neutralizes acid, mixes food with bile from liver and enzymes from pancreas,

Jejunum

second part of small intestines, obsorbs most of. Nutrients into blood stream

Ileum

Last part of small intestine, obsorbs remaining nutrients before passing waste to other intestine

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

ADHD

Adult respiratory distress syndrome

ARDS

acute renal failure

Acute rheumatic fever

ARF (two answers)

(loss of kidneys over a few days or hours)

(systemic inflammation disease wich is a delayed reaction to untreated throat infection)

Cancer

CA

Congenital heart disease

CHD

(structural abnormality of heart wich is the most common birth defect)

Closed head injury

CHI

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

COPD

(A disease that makes it harder to breathe by destruction of airways and air sacs)

cystic fibrosis

CF

(genetic disorder that causes thick musky build up in lungs, digestive system and other organs)

HTN

Hypertension

Multiple sclerosis

MS

(A disease where the immune system mistakenly attacks the protective melanin sheath protecting nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord)

Shaken baby syndrome

SBS

Tuberculosis

TB

(A contagious bacterial infection that most commonly affects the lungs, but can also affect other body parts)

Ventricular fibrillation

VF

(life threatening heart rythem where the hearts lower chambers quiver instead of pumping blood)