KINESIOL 1AA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Integumentary System, Fluid Balance, Muscular System

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: KINESIOL 1AA3
• Professor: Krista Howarth

Document Summary

Integumentary system: provides protection, regulates temp, prevents water loss, helps produce vitamin d includes, skin, hair, nails, sweat glands. Skeletal system: provides protection and support, allows body movements, produces blood cells, stores minerals and fat includes, bones, associated cartilages ligaments joints. Muscular system: produces body movements, maintains posture, produces body heat includes, muscles attached to the skeleton by tendons. Lymphatic system removes foreign substances from the blood and lymph, combats disease, maintains tissue fluid balance, absorbs fats from the digestive tract includes: lymphatic vessels lymph nodes: other lymphatic organs. Respiratory system: exchange o2 and co2 between blood and air and regulates blood ph includes: lungs respiratory passages. Digestive system: performs the mechanical and chemical processes of digestion, absorption of nutrients, elimination of wastes includes, mouth, esophagus, stomach intestines, accessory organs. Nervous system: major regulatory system that detects sensations controls, movements, physiological processes intellectual functions includes, brain, spinal cord, nerves, sensory receptors.