Physiology Part 1

1. Which humour in excess could cause a sanguine personality (extroverted and social)?

• Blood

• Black Bile

• Yellow Bile

• Phlegm

2. Which organ did Galen believe gave the blood its “natural spirit”?

• Liver

• Heart

• Brain

• Stomach

3. What did Galen believe the brain did to impact the blood?

• Brain provided pneuma to the blood to nourish lungs

• Brain creates animal spirit from the blood to be distributed to the body

• Brain adds vital spirit and is pushes it to the liver

• Brain has no impact on the circulatory system

4. What did some scientists, like Jacobus Sylvius, tell Vesalius when he discovered issues with Galen’s teachings?

• All of Galen’s work was a lie

• The body has changed since Galen described it

• Galen changed his writings for the church

• Galen studied women and they studied men which was the obvious cause of the

  differences

5. How did Harvey know that blood was not being consumed by the body?

• The high pressure of blood pumped out of the heart

• The volume of blood that was being circulated

• The valves found in veins

• All of the Above

6. Pulmonary veins pump oxygenated blood from the lungs to which part of the heart?

• Right Atrium

• Right Ventricle

• Left Atrium

• Left Ventricle

7. Veins get __________ as they approach the heart.

• Smaller

• Larger

• Weaker

• Stronger

8. The pulmonary valve regulates blood flow from _______ to __________.

• Pulmonary arteries to right ventricle

• Right ventricle to pulmonary arteries

• Pulmonary arteries to left ventricle

• Left ventricle to pulmonary arteries

9. The aortic valve regulates blood flow from ____________ to ___________.

• Left ventricle to aorta

• Aorta to left ventricle

• Right ventricle to aorta

• Aorta to right ventricle

10. In Galen’s theory of four humours, how did someone end up sick?

• Nerves were blocked

• Spells made them ill

• Humours were out of balance

• Animal spirit was lacking