- Question: Where is the pharynx located?
- Answer: The pharynx, or throat, is a part of the body that helps with eating and with breathing. It is a passage that leads from the mouth and nose to the esophagus and the larynx.
- Question: Which of these glands produces tears?
- Answer: The lachrymal gland secretes tears. It is located near the eye.
- Question: What fraction of the human body is made up of blood?
- Answer: Blood is the life fluid of the human body and the liquid that transports nutrients and removes waste. It makes up about 1/13 of the total weight of the human body.
- Question: What is the average temperature of a healthy human, in centigrade?
- Answer: The average temperature of a healthy human is 36.9 degrees.
- Question: Where is the esophagus located?
- Answer: The esophagus is a tube through which food passes from the pharynx to the stomach. The walls of the esophagus move in waves to push the food down the tube to the stomach.
- Question: What is the name of the system, in the human body, that transports blood?
- Answer: The cardiovascular system carries substances to and from all parts of the body in the blood.
- Question: Which of these is a neurological disorder?
- Answer: Alzheimer disease is a disorder involving the disruption of electrical signals in the brain. It is named for Alois Alzheimer, a Bavarian neurologist.
- Question: Where are red blood corpuscles formed?
- Answer: Red cells, formed in bone marrow, are the most numerous kind of blood cells. Each drop of blood contains about 300 million of them.
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