Chapter 4 SCIENCE - Human Body
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- this blood vessel carries blood away from the heart
- artery
- this muscle makes up the heart
- cardiac muscle
- the basic building block of the body
- cell
- connects nerves in your body to your brain
- spinal cord
- type of muscle found in the walls of your organs
- smooth muscle
- this blood vessel carries blood to the heart
- vein
- the control center of your nervous system
- brain
- this kind of blood vessel is the smallest
- capillary
- this is formed from tissues of different kinds working together
- organ
- these organs take oxygen into your body
- lungs
- this kind of muscle makes up the muscles in your arms and legs
- straited muscle
- this organ pumps blood throughout your body
- heart
- water is removed from digested food here
- large intestine
- food is liquified in this organ
- stomach
- food is digested the most here and taken into the body
- small intestine
- these connect the sense organs in your head to your brain
- nerves
- cells of the same type form this
- tissue
- these cells are the basic unit of the nervous system
- neurons
- tube that goes from your mouth to your stomach
- esophagus