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This website is made by high school students at New Tech High for students at Lowell Elementary to help them gain a better understanding of the body and it's functions.
Terms you need to know:
Hormone: any of various internally secreted compounds, as insulin or thyroxine, formed inendocrine glands, that affect the functions of specifically receptive organs or tissues whentransported to them by the body fluids.
Gland: a cell, group of cells, or organ producing a secretion.
Cell: a usually microscopic structure containing nuclear and cytoplasmic material enclosed by asemipermeable membrane and, in plants, a cell wall; the basic structural unit of all organisms.
Spinal Cord: the cord of nerve tissue extending through the spinal canal of the spinal column.
Bolus: a soft, roundish mass or lump, especially of chewed food.
Oxygen: a colorless, odorless, gaseous element constituting about one-fifth of the volume of the atmosphere and present in a combined state in nature.
Carbon Dioxide: a colorless, odorless, incombustible gas, CO 2, present in the atmosphere and formed during respiration.
Tissue: an aggregate of similar cells and cell products forming a definite kind of structural material with a specific function, in a multicellular organism.
Gland: a cell, group of cells, or organ producing a secretion.
Cell: a usually microscopic structure containing nuclear and cytoplasmic material enclosed by asemipermeable membrane and, in plants, a cell wall; the basic structural unit of all organisms.
Spinal Cord: the cord of nerve tissue extending through the spinal canal of the spinal column.
Bolus: a soft, roundish mass or lump, especially of chewed food.
Oxygen: a colorless, odorless, gaseous element constituting about one-fifth of the volume of the atmosphere and present in a combined state in nature.
Carbon Dioxide: a colorless, odorless, incombustible gas, CO 2, present in the atmosphere and formed during respiration.
Tissue: an aggregate of similar cells and cell products forming a definite kind of structural material with a specific function, in a multicellular organism.