Final exam


1. Name the four parts of a regulatory system

2. What is meant by negative feedback?

3. List the four fluid compartments in the human body.

4. Why is it so important to regulate the interstitial fluid?

5. What does it mean to say "the lemonade is hypotonic?"

6. True/False: Osmometric thirst occurs when our interstitial fluid is hypertonic.

7. What structure which is located in the AV3V, is related to OSMOMETRIC thirst?

8. What does the term "atrial stretch" refer to?

9. What region is responsible for both types of thirst (it is a structure)?

10. True/False: When angiotensin is a factor in Osmometric thirst, the signal travels via the SFO to the median preoptic nucleus.

11. What is the difference between drinking initiated by Atrial baroreceptors and drinking initiated by angiotensin?


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