Anatomy and Physiology For Dummies

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If you’re a visual learner, you may get more out of anatomy and physiology by seeing the real thing in the flesh. If you’re an aural learner, you may learn best in the classroom as the teacher lectures. If you’re a reading and writing kind of learner, you’ll get the most out of our first tip to write stuff down. And if you’re a kinesthetic learner, there’s nothing like touching or holding to commit something to memory. Get a grip on Greek and Latin PDF / EPUB File Name: Anatomy_and_Physiology_For_Dummies_-_Erin_Odya.pdf, Anatomy_and_Physiology_For_Dummies_-_Erin_Odya.epub

Well explained for dummies. Lots of information, but it was worth. From now on, everybody will think i am a medical doctor (although i am an attorney)! Read more Problems can come up when the specialists who use the jargon want to communicate with someone outside their field. The specialists must translate their message into more common terms to communicate it. Problems can also come up when someone approaching a field, such as a student, fails to make progress understanding and speaking the field’s jargon. This book aims to help you make the necessary progress. An organ is a part of the body that performs a specialized physiological function. For example, the stomach is an organ that has the specific physiological function of breaking down food. By definition, an organ is made up of at least two different tissue types; many organs contain tissues of all four types. Although we can name and describe all four tissue types that make up all organs, as we do in the preceding section, listing all the organs in the body wouldn’t be so easy. The respiratory system helps in gas exchange by taking in oxygen from the air and expelling carbon dioxide from the body. Air enters the nose and mouth and travels through the larynx, or voice box, and trachea, or windpipe. At the lungs, the trachea branches to form two bronchi (singular, bronchus); each bronchus enters one of the lungs. In the lungs the bronchi branch further, forming smaller airways called bronchioles, which further divide many times to form a very large number of small air spaces called alveoli. Genus Homo: The human species is the only surviving species of our genus, though this genus included several species in the evolutionary past.The short answer is, scientists do say what they mean (most of them, most of the time, to the best of their ability), but what they mean can’t be said in the English language that people use to talk about routine daily matters. Scientists develop vocabularies of technical terminology and other forms of jargon so they can communicate better with other scientists. It’s important that the scientist sending the information and the scientist receiving the information both use the same words to refer to the same phenomenon. To communicate in science, you must know and use the same terminology, too. Establishing precise terminology Thoracic cavity:The chest or thorax; contains the heart, lungs, and their associated structures, as well as the esophagus and several glands Every person has his or her own sense of style, and woe betide anyone who tries to shoehorn the masses into a single style. The same, of course, is true of students. To get the most out of your study time, you need to figure out what your learning style is and alter your study habits to accommodate it.

Where can I find the color pictures mentioned a couple of times throughout the book because I don't seem to find them. Read more

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The dorsal cavity consists of two cavities that contain the central nervous system. The first is the cranial cavity, the space within the skull that holds your brain. The second is the spinal cavity, the space within the vertebrae where the spinal cord runs through your body.

PartI introduces the basics of human anatomy and physiology: the fundamental concepts of organismal biology and cell biology, some elementary terminology, and some hints about the scope and utility of anatomical and physiological knowledge. Unlike with other sciences, you don’t always have to go to a lab to perform experiments. You may have one, or even a pair, of anatomical structures close by to investigate. You discover some of the body functions that have been happening right under your nose — and in some cases right inside your nose — all your life. Chapter 1 Anatomy and Physiology: The Big Picture In This Chapter The digestion of food is both a mechanical and a chemical process. Food enters through the mouth, where chewing and saliva start to break it up and make it easier to swallow. Next, the food travels down through the esophagus to the stomach. Contractions of the stomach’s muscular wall continue to break down the food mechanically, and chemical digestion continues when acid and enzymes are secreted into the stomach cavity. Abdominopelvic cavity: An imaginary line running across the hipbones and dividing the body into the abdominal and pelvic cavities:HONC your horn for the four organic elements. These four elements make up 96 percent of all living material. The laws of thermodynamics are the foundation of how the physics and chemistry of the universe are understood. They’re at the we hold these truths to be self-evident level for chemists and physicists of all specialties, including all biologists. The first law of thermodynamics states that energy can be neither created nor destroyed — it can only change form. (Turn to Chapter 16 for a brief look at the first law and other basic laws of chemistry and physics.) Energy changes form continuously — within stars, within engines of all kinds, and, in some very special ways, within organisms. remember.eps Anatomy is form; physiology is function. You can’t talk about one without talking about the other. The anatomy and physiology of everything else As you read through a chapter of your textbook to prepare for the next lecture, prepare an outline of what you’re reading, leaving plenty of space between subheadings. Then, during the lecture, take your notes within the outline you’ve already created. Piecing together an incomplete puzzle shows you where the key gaps in your knowledge may be. Put in time to practice