Vocabulary Menu Unit 3

3. thin skeletal muscle that sits at the base of the chest and separates the abdomen from the chest
5. only found in your heart, where it performs coordinated contractions that allow your heart to pump blood through your circulatory system
6. Muscle Skeletal muscles that attach to bones and control movement of the limbs, head, neck, and body under conscious control.
8. a large membranous tube reinforced by rings of cartilage, extending from the larynx to the bronchial tubes and conveying air to and from the lungs; the windpipe
10. either of two external openings of the nasal cavity in vertebrates that admit air to the lungs and smells to the olfactory nerves.
11. lies above the bone that forms the roof of the mouth and curves down at the back to join the throat.
14. the membrane-lined cavity behind the nose and mouth, connecting them to the esophagus.
16. tiny blood vessels
17. any of the many tiny air sacs of the lungs which allow for rapid gaseous exchange.

1. muscle tissue in which the contractile fibrils in the cells are aligned in parallel bundles, so that their different regions form stripes visible in a microscope
2. muscles ones that do not move or contract under the conscious control of a person
4. a hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation. In vertebrates there may be up to four chambers (as in humans), with two atria and two ventricles
7. Tubes forming part of the blood circulation system, carrying in most cases oxygen-depleted blood toward the heart.
9. the hollow muscular organ forming an air passage to the lungs and holding the vocal cords in humans and other mammals
12. muscle tissue in which the contractile fibrils are not highly ordered, occurring in the gut and other internal organs and not under voluntary control.
13. muscle Type of muscle tissue that forms the heart.
15. the blood vessels that deliver oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the tissues of the body