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Integumentary System
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components: skin, and structures associated with it, such as hair, fingernails and toenails, sweat glands, and oil glands.
functions: protect body, regulate body temperature, eliminate some wastes, help make vitamin D, the tech sensations such as touch, pain, warm and cold | ||
skeletal system
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components: bones and joints of the body and their associated cartilages
functions: support and protect body, surface area for muscle attachments, aid in body movement, stores minerals and lipids. | ||
muscular system
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components: skeletal muscle tissue
functions: body movement, maintain posture, and produce heat
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cardiovascular system
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components: blood, heart, and blood vessels.
Functions: heart pumps blood to blood vessels; etc. | ||
Lymphatic system and immunity
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components: lymphatic fluid, lymphatic vessels, spleen, thymus, lympth nodes, and tonsils
functions: return proteins and fluid to blood | ||
nervous system
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components: brain, spinal cord, nerves, and special sense organs, such as the eyes and ears.
function: generate nerve impulses to regulate body activities. | ||
endocrine system
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components: hormone producing glands
functions: regulates body activities by releasing hormones. | ||
respiratory system
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components: lungs and air passageways such as pharynx, larynx, trachea, and bronchial tubes.
functions: transfer oxygen from inhaled air to blood and carbon dioxide from blood to the exhaled air | ||
digestive system
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components: space organs of gastrointestinal tract including mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small and large intestines, and anus.
functions: achieves physical and chemical breakdown of food. | ||
urinary system
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components: kidneys, ureters, urinary bladder, and urethra.
Functions: produces, stores and eliminate urine | ||
reproductive systems
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components: gonads, uterine tubes, uterus,vagina in females and prostate in penis in males.
Functions: reproduction and other body processes associated. In females to produce milk also. | ||
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