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TEST EXERCISES,

1. What is Physiology? /

2. What is meant by the term Biology!"

3. What is Bioplasm, or Protoplasm?

4. Of how many bones does the human body consist?

5. Name the longest bone in the body.

6. What bone forms the "key stone" of the skull ?

7. What is the technical or anatomical term for the "Crazy bone?"

8. What bone in the human frame is shaped like the letter [?

9. What are the ligaments?

10. Why are fractures most frequent among elderly persons?

11. Why should we sit or stand erect?

12. What is the number of permanent, also temporary teeth? 13. What is the Pericardium ?

14. What artery may be felt at the wrist?

15. What artery below the angle of the jaw?

16. What artery in front of the ears?

17. Give a general description of the veins.

18. How does medicine get into the blood?

19. What is the difference between the right and left lung?

20. In a healthy adult, what are the average number of respirations per minute?

21. What produces animal heat?

22. What are the pores, of the human body, and their uses?

23. What is the cause of "Gray Hair?"

24. What should be done when an artery is injured?

25. What is the size and weight of the average brain?

26. What is the occasion and benefit of yawning?

27. What are the functions of the cerebellum? 28. Of the cerebrum?

29. What is weeping, and the use of tears?

30. Describe the formation of the eye of a near sighted person. 31. What is a "Cataract," and method of treatment?

32. Describe the sense of hearing.

33. What are the organs of taste? 34. Explain "taking cold.” 35. Describe the sense of smell. 36. Of touch.

37. Why is a person shorter at night than in the morning?

38. What are the names of the four kinds of teeth?

39. What causes "change" of voice?

40. How do you know whether blood comes from an artery or a vein ? 41. What is the saliva. 42. What is the gastric juice?

43. How does the use of tobacco injure the system?

44. Give a description of the brain.

45. What are some of the wonders of the brain?

46. What constitutes the nervous system?

47. Why is fatter food needed in a cold climate than in a warm one?

48. Who discovered the circulation of the blood?

49. What is coughing?

50. What is sneezing?

53. What makes you "Hiccough?"

54. Name the organs of circulation.

51. What is snoring?

52. What is laughing?

55. Does the blood permeate the whole system?

56. What is the average amount of blood in each person?

57. In what part of the body is the blood purified?

58. In what time does the blood circulate through the body?

59. In what time does the blood pass through the heart?

60. Describe the capillaries.

61. What is the average temperature of the body?

62. What are the three uses of the skin?

63. How many perspiratory glands are there in the human body?

1. The science which treats of the laws and principles of animal and vegetable life, their organs and functions.

2. It is that department of Physiology which treats of life in general, or of the different forces of life.

3. The germinal matter essential to the functions of all living beings.

4. The human body of an adult is composed of about 200 distinct bones. The number varying at different ages in life.

5. The Femur, or thigh-bone.

6. The sphenoid forming the lower front part of the base of the skull, articulating with all the other bones of the Cranium holding them together.

7. The upper extremity, Olecranon process, of the ulna, felt at the tip of the elbow.

8. The os hyoides, or hyoid bone, located just above the larynx.

9. Ligaments are bundles of white fibrous or yellow elastic tissues, holding the bones in place, yet allowing freedom of movement.

10. Because in old age the bones become brittle from a lack of organic

matter.

11. Because any bending position exerts a continued and injurious pressure upon the bones; and prevents free respiration.

12. Number of permanent teeth is 32; temporary 20.

13. It is a fibro-serous membrane surrounding the heart, forming a sac containing a fluid, which prevents friction.

14. The radial, which is known as the pulse.

15. The external carotid.

16. The temporal, a branch of the external carotid.

17. The veins are the system of tubes which return the impure blood

from the body to the right auricle, and are divided into three sets, superficial, deep and sinuses.

18. Medicines are acted upon by the gastric juice, and are assimilated and distributed by the veins of the stomach throughout the system.

19. The right lung is largest, divided by fissures into three lobes; the left has only two lobes.

20. Average per minute about 18.

21. Chemical changes; the carbon and hydrogen of the tissues of the system uniting with the oxygen of the air we inhale.

22. Openings in the sudoriferous glands through which waste material is thrown out of the body.

23. The lack of fluid in the pigment cells, or want of marrow in the hair tubes.

24. Tie a bandage tightly drawn, above the wound, between the wound and the heart.

25. Occupies the entire cavity of the Cranium. Average weight in adult male 49 oz., female 44 oz.

26. It is nature's demand for more air to the lungs; the act supplies oxygen, thus stimulating the system.

27. It is the regulator of muscular movements.

28. Is the organ of consciousness, controls voluntary motion, and is the seat of the reasoning powers.

29. The shedding of tears which affords relief to the excess of a fluid secreted by the lachrymal glands, produced by pain or sympathetic emotions of the mind. The probable use of tears is to keep the eyes cool during the excitement of the brain.

30. The eye-ball is too round, bringing the rays of light to a focus too

soon.

31. It is an opacity of the crystalline lens, shutting out the rays of light; it is cured by removing the lens, and lifting it out.

32. The pulsations of air pass along the external canal, cause the membrane of the drum (tympanum) to vibrate, which transmits the vibrations by the air and three small bones to the labyrinth (internal ear) where the fibres of the auditory nerve receive the impression, which is conveyed to the brain.

33. The tongue, lips and palate are the organs of taste.

34. A closing of the pores of the skin, caused by exposure or a