How do organs work together?

Calcium

Between the bone cells is a material that helps make our bones hard. This material is used by other parts of our body, it is stored in our body until needed.

Bones

One of the jobs is to provide the body with a strong support system (skeletal system). Another one of the jobs of this system is to protect our vital organs. The skull protects the brain. The rib cage protects your lungs and heart. In this organ, bone marrow fills the cavities and spongy bone tissue inside some bones. Inside bone marrow is where red and white blood cells are made.

Reproductive System

The male system includes the testes, scrotum, penis, accessory glands, and the duct system. The female system includes the ovaries, uterine tubes, uterus, and vagina. The main purpose of these systems is to produce offspring.

Cardiovascular System

The primary organs of this system are the heart and blood vessels. The blood vessels in this system transport oxygen, carbon dioxide, nutrients, hormones, and other substances to and from the tissue cells where exchanges are made. The heart acts as a blood pump, pushing blood in the blood vessels to be transported to and from all body tissues.

Muscles

These organs work together to move your body. You have 640 of these types of organs that control the movement of your body. When you shiver, your brain is telling these organs to move and warm your body. This is called an involuntary response. Several small of these joining together make up one strong one. These never push, there always a set that pull to make your body move, they flex and extend. These organs also squeeze food through the digestive system. This heart is an example of the strongest one of these organs.

Nervous System

This is the body's fast acting control system, it consists of the brain, spinal cord, nerves, and sensory receptors. Within this system, the sensory receptors detect changes in and around the body and send messages to the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). It then assesses this information and responds accordingly by activating the appropriate muscles and glands

Integumentary system

This is the external covering of our body, our skin. It waterproofs the body and cushions and protects the deeper tissues from injury. It also excretes salts and urea through perspiration and helps regulate body temperature. Our skin is what absorbs and produces vitamin D. Receptors in the skin alert us to temperature, pressure and pain.

Endocrine System

This system also controls body activities, but is much slower than the nervous system. This system includes the pituitary thyroid, parathyroids, adrenals, thymus, pancreas, pineal, ovaries (in the female) and testes (in the male). These glands produce and secrete hormones that affect every cell in the body. Metabolism is regulated primarily by these hormones.

Respiratory System

This system consists of the nasal passages, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, and lungs. The job of this system is to keep the body constantly supplied with oxygen and to remove carbon dioxide. Within the lungs are tiny air sacs. It is through the thin wall of these air sacs that gases are transported to and from the blood.

Lymphatic System

This system includes the several organs such as the spleen and tonsils. This systems complements the cardiovascular system in that it returns fluid leaked from the blood back to the blood vessels so that blood can be kept continuously circulating through the body. This system cleanse and dispose of debris in the lymphatic stream. These system's organs also hold cells involved in immunity.

Digestive System

This system is basically a tube running through the body from mouth to anus. The organs in this system include the oral cavity (mouth), esophagus, stomach, small and large intestines, and rectum. The role of the organs in this system is to break down food into absorbable molecules and to deliver these to the blood for distribution to body cells. The breakdown of food that begins in the mouth is completed in the small intestine. Once in the large intestine, it is its job to reclaim as much water as possible. The undigested food that remains in the tract leaves the body through the anus as feces.

Urinary System

This system is composed of the kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra. The main job of this system is to flush wastes from the body in urine. One type of waste contains nitrogen, which results when the body cells break down proteins and nucleic acids. Other important functions of this system include maintaining the body's water and electrolyte balance and regulating the acid-base balance of the blood.

Skeletal System

This system is made up of bones, cartilages, ligaments and joints. These provide support and protection for body organs. Certain muscles use this framework in order to cause movement. The formation of blood cells takes place within the cavities of this system. Additionally, our bones act as storage for minerals

Muscular System

This system is made up of bundles of tissues that contract or shorten. This system allows for movement. When the tissues in this system contract, we are able to stand, walk, leap, grasp, swim, throw, smile, etc. This system also produces heat and a thermal covering for the internal organs of our body. This system is separate from other tissue bundles such as the heart and of other hollow organs that move fluids or other substances through the body.

Nervous System

This system work to control how your muscles move your bones. This system carries electrical signals from your brain and spinal cord to your body.

Organ Systems

When a group of organs work together to carry out a body function this is the what it is called. There are a total of 11 organ systems that make up our bodies? Each of these organ systems have very specific roles in the body, but they also work together in a fascinating way in order to keep us going.