Human Body Systems Vocabulary

“Dynamic Equilibrium” or stable internal environment

• Histamines

• Heterotroph

• Homeostasis

• Hysterectomy

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Structures that increase the surface area in the small intestine

used to absorb nutrients into the circulatory system

• Capillaries

• Villi

• Aleveoli

• Menengies

Organ that produces insulin

• Pancreas

• Liver

• Spleen

• Small Intestine

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Proteins that are used to speed up chemical reactions

• Antibodies

• Hormones

• Insulin

• Enzymes

Protein produced by the pancreas

-regulates the amount of sugar in the blood

• Insulin

• Enzymes

• Antibodies

• Hormones

Tiny thin-walled air sac found in large numbers in each lung,

place where is gas exchanged

• Antigen

• Capillaries

• Villi

• Alveoli

A protein molecule on the cell membrane

where signaling molecules attach

• cell receptor

• antibody

• enzyme

• hormone

A chemical secreted by a gland that regulates the function of a specific tissue or organ

• insulin

• antibodies

• histamines

• hormone

A substance on the surface of a cell that stimulates the production of an antibody

• cell receptor

• antigen

• hormones

• villi

These are a primary form of immune response;

act by attaching themselves to a foreign antigen and weakening or destroying it.

• insulin

• hormones

• antibody

• nuerotransmitter