1. What are the functions of the digestive system?
2. Trace the path of food as it moves through the digestive system.
3. What are the major stuctures of the mouth and pharynx?
4. What is the function of the esophagus?
5. What is the function of the stomach?
6. What are the three divisions of the small intestines?
7. What is the function of the villi?
8. What are the portions of the colon?
9. What is the function of the large intestines?

Thursday, January 7th - Monday, January 11th
Review for Mid-Term Exams - Exam on Friday, January 15th.

Wednesday, January 6th
In Class - Distribution of Mid-Term review sheets and progess reports for the second marking period.
Homework - Begin reviewing topics for the Mid-term.

Tuesday, January 5th
In Class - Completion of Chapter 8. Topics include - The Chemical Senses (Taste and Smell) and Homeostatic Imbalances.
Homework - page 298 (24-25), At the Clinic page 298 (1-3, 8-9)

page 298
    24. What name is given to the taste receptors and where are they found?
    25. Name the five primary taste sensations.
At the Clinic
    1. An engineering student has been working in a disco to earn money to pay for his education. After about eight weeks, he notices he is
       having difficulty hearing high-pitched tones. What is the cause-and-effect relationship here?
    2. Nine children attending the same day-care center develop red, inflamed eyes and eylids. What is the most likely cause and name of
        this condition?
    3. Dr. Nakvarati used an instrument to press on Mr. Cruz's eye during his annual physical examination on his sixtieth birthday. The eye
        deformed very little, indication the intaocular pressure was too high. What was Mr. Cruz's probable condition?
    8. While visiting at her father's office on the 25th floor of the Harris Building, 5 year-old Katie wandered into the hallway. Fascinated by the
        buttons in the elevator, she entered, pressed 1, and the high speed elevator plummeted to the first floor.  Later she told her father that
        she felt like she kept going when the elevator stopped. Explain her sensation.
    9. Mrs. Miniver has an immune disorder that cuses dry mouth, and she complains to her dotor that she's lost her sense of taste. How
        might her symptoms be explained?

Monday, January 4th
WELCOME BACK!
In Class - Discussion of The Ear, including homeostatic imbalances.
Homework - page 298 (19-22)

    19. Name the structures of the out, middle and inner ear.
    20. Trace the pathway of earing from the outer ear to the inner ear.
    21. Explain the difference between sensorinueral and conductive deafness.  Give causes for each type.
    22. Distinguish between static and dynamic types of equilibrium.

Monday, December 21st
In Class - Answer the following questions on the Stroop Test from the lab from last week. Use your group data, except where indicated.

1. Is there evidence that a person had trouble naming the color of the word when the word didn’t match its color? Explain your evidence.
2. Were there any differences in the time it took to say the colors for each list? Explain your answer.
3. What factors interfered with the ability to quickly say the name of each color?
4. Were there any individual differences in the abilities of people to name the colors for List 2? (Use your own data)
5. What are some possible explanations for the differences?

Homework - Make sure your packet is complete. If it is not, we will schedule a time for you to finish the activity.  Also, make sure the nervous reflex lab activity is complete as well, including all analysis questions.  I will collect both activities tomorrow.  Your quiz on The Eye will also take place tomorrow.

Friday, December 18th
In Class - Finish Eye Activities Lab.
Homework - Quiz on The Eye on Monday.

1. What is the major function of muscle?
2. Compare skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscles - microscopic anatomy, location, arrangement, and function.
3. Specifically, what is responsible for the banding pattern seen in skeletal muscle?
4. Name the connective tissue coverings from finest to most coarse (inside to outside).
5. What is the function of a tendon?

1. A 75-year-old woman and her 9-year-old granddaughter were in a train crash in which both sustained trauma to the chest while seated next to each other.  X-rays showed that the grandmother had several fractured ribs, while her granddaughter had none. Explain these surprisingly (?) different findings.
2. The pediatrician at the clinic explains to the parents of a new born that their son suffers from cleft palate.  She tells them that the normal plates fuses in an anterior-to-posterior pattern.  The child's palatine processes have not fused.  Have his palatine bones fused normally?
3. After having a sever cold accompanied by nasal congestion, Helen complained that she had a frontal headache and the right side of her face ached.  What bony structures probably became infected by the bacteria or virus causing the cold?
4. Bernice, a 75-year-old woman, stumbled slightly while walking, then felt a terrible pain in her left hip. At the hospital, X-rays revealed that the hip was broken.  Also, the compact and spongy bone throughout her spine were very thin. What was her probable condition?
5. At work, a box fell from a shelf onto Bertha's acromial region.  In the ER, the physician felt the head of her humerus had moved into the axilla. What had happened to Bertha?
6. A X-ray of the arm of an accident victim reveals a faint line curving around and down the shaft. What kind of fracture might this indicate?
7. Bone X-rays are sometimes used to determine if a person has reached his or her final height.  What are the clinicians checkingo ut?
8. A patient complains of pain staring the in jaw and radiating down the neck.  Upon questioning, he states that when he is under stress he grinds his teeth. What joint is causing him pain?

1. What is the name of the connective tissue membrane found lining the joint cavities?
2. What primary tissues are destroyed when the skin is damaged?
3. From what types of damage does the skin protect the body?
4. Explain why we began tanned after sitting in the sun.

1. Define anatomy and physiology.
2. Why would you have a hard time trying to learn and understand physiology if you did not also understand anatomy?
3. (#4) In addition to being able to metabolize, grow, digest food, and excrete wastes, what functions must an organism perform if it is to survive?