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Which of the following is NOT a system of the body?

Which of the primary tissue types detects and responds to changes in the environment in order to maintain homeostasis?

An instructor tells students in a P.E. class to place their arms at their sides.  Then she tells them to raise their arms away from their bodies until the arms are at shoulder level and their bodies form a letter T.  During the last movement described the students ______________ their arms.

The term that describes the embryological development of increasingly specialized tissues is

The facial nerve (CN X) is the nerve associated with them movement of jaw muscles, secretion of tears, and taste in the posterior one-third of the tongue.

The embryonic connective tissue from which all other connective tissues arise is

Friction reduction and shock absorption are functions of what part of a long bone?

Jane has an upper respiratory infection and begins to feel pain in her teeth.  This is a good indication that the infection is located in the

Which bone forms the chin?

Tamara broke her right tibia and has undergone two separate surgeries. Although the bone has healed, she suffers from increasing pain around the incision sites.  She reads an article about pain.  The article suggests that Tamara’s pain may be due to the lack of the usual inhibition of transmission of pain signals through Tamara’s spinal cord.  Which of these statements best describes how a postsynaptic neuron is inhibited by a  presynaptic neuron?