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Anatomy & Physiology All-in-One For Dummies is your go-to guide for developing a deep understanding of the parts of the human body and how it works. You’ll learn the body's structures and discover how they function with expert help from the book's easy-to-use teaching features. You can even go online to access interactive chapter quizzes to help you absorb the material. Abdominal cavity:Contains the stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, spleen, small intestines, and most of the large intestine Find your own words. Create your own analogies. Tell your own tale of what happens to the bolus as it ventures into the digestive tract. Detail the course followed by a molecule of oxygen as it enters through the nose. Draw pictures of the differences between meiosis and mitosis. This is a simple idea that far too few students practice regularly. Don’t stop at underlining and highlighting important material in your textbooks and study guides: Write it down. Or type it up. Whatever you do, don’t just regurgitate it exactly as presented in the material you’re studying. Biologists take for granted that human anatomy and physiology evolved from the anatomy and physiology of ancient forms. These scientists base their work on the assumption that every structure and process, no matter how tiny in scope, must somehow contribute to the survival of the individual. So each process — and the structures within which the chemistry and physics of the process actually happen — must help keep the individual alive and meeting the relentless challenges of a continually changing environment. Evolution favors processes that work.

Okay, it’s test time! Take advantage of the test itself. You may find that the answer to an exam question that stumps you is revealed — at least partially — in the phrasing of a subsequent question. Stay alert to these blessed little gifts even when you think that you already understand all the anatomical structures and physiological processes. You won’t be the first student to change an answer after working your way through an exam. Review your mistakes Scientists try to create terminology that’s precise and easy to understand by developing it systematically. That is, they create new words by putting together existing and known elements. They use certain syllables or word fragments over and over to build new terms. With a little help from this book, you’ll soon start to recognize some of these fragments. Then you can put the meanings of different fragments together and accurately guess the meaning of a term you’ve never seen before, just as you can understand a sentence you’ve never read before. Table 1-1 gets you started, listing some word fragments related to the organ systems we cover in this book. /Table 0101a /Table 0101bStop reading for a minute. Stand up straight. Look forward. Let your arms hang down at your sides with your palms facing forward. You are now in anatomical position (see Figure 1-1). Whenever you see an anatomical drawing, the body is in this position. Using this position as the standard removes confusion. 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 Abdominal cavity: Contains the stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, spleen, small intestines, and most of the large intestine

Anatomy & Physiology For Dummies combines anatomical terminology and function so you'll learn not only names and terms but also gain an understanding of how the human body works. Whether you're a student, an aspiring medical, healthcare or fitness professional, or just someone who's curious about the human body and how it works, this book offers you a fun, easy way to get a handle on the basics of anatomy and physiology. The longer answer to the question of why scientists don’t say what they mean starts with a little chat about jargon. Contrary to the belief of some, jargon is a good thing. Jargon is a set of words and phrases that people who know a lot about a particular subject use to talk together. There’s jargon in every field (scientific or not), every workplace, every town, even every home. Families and close friends almost always use jargon in conversations with one another. Plumbers use jargon to communicate about plumbing. Anatomists and physiologists use jargon and technical terminology, much of which is shared with medicine and other fields of biology, especially human biology. Then, every time the term comes up in class or in your textbook, add to the running list of notes on that concept. You’ll have references to metabolism at each point it comes up and you’ll be able to analyze its influences across different body systems. Form a study group Ovaries, uterine tubes, uterus, vagina, and vulva in females; testes, seminal vesicles, penis, urethra, prostate, and bulbourethral glands in males 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.

Latin and Greek prefixes and suffixes

When you’re answering practice questions, pay special attention to the ones you get wrong. Write reflections about why you answered incorrectly and what you need to remember about the right answer. Gain better knowledge through mnemonics Human pathophysiology is the science of human anatomy and physiology gone wrong. (The prefix path- is Greek for suffering.) It’s the interface of human biology and medical science. Clinical medicine is the application of medical science to alleviate an anatomical or physiological problem in an individual human. A tissue is a structure made of many cells — usually several different kinds of cells — that performs a specific function. Tissues are divided into four classes: If you remove all the internal organs, the body is empty except for the bones and tissues that form the space where the organs were. Just as a dental cavity is a hole in a tooth, the body’s cavities are holes where organs are held (see Figure 1-3). The two main cavities are the dorsal cavity and the ventral cavity.

Thoracic cavity: The chest; contains the trachea, bronchi, lungs, esophagus, heart and great blood vessels, thymus gland, lymph nodes, and nerve,. as well as the following smaller cavities:It’s the best resource for helping you make anatomy and physiology your minion, with memorization tactics, test-prep suggestions, and hundreds of practice tests. Dorsal cavity: Bones of the cranial portion of the skull and vertebral column, toward the posterior (dorsal) side of the body The organs that belong to one system can have functions integral to another system. In fact, most organs contribute to more than one system. The blood vessels are an excellent example: They serve as a transportation network, delivering nutrients produced by the digestive system to the skeletal muscles to provide energy for locomotion and to the uterus to support the developing fetus. They remove the byproducts of the energy consumed in locomotion and by the fetus in development and carry them to the organs of the urinary system for excretion. Level IV: The organ system level

Figure 1-4: Levels of organization in the human body. 9780470923269-fg0104.eps Level I: The cellular level The test is done and the grades are in. So there was a really tough question or two on the test and you blew it big-time? It’s hardly a missed opportunity — this is where rolling with the punches really pays off. Darwin made scientific history in his own way, of course, but it was a German physicist named Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen who’s remembered as the father of medical imaging. In 1895, Roentgen recorded the first image of the internal parts of a living human: an X-ray image of his wife’s hand. By 1900, X-rays were in widespread use for the early detection of tuberculosis, at that time a common cause of death. X-rays are beams of radiation emitted from a machine toward the patient’s body, and X-ray images show details only of hard tissues, like bone, that reflect the radiation. In this way, they’re similar to photographs. Refinements and enhancements of X-ray techniques were developed all through the 20th century, with extensive use and major advances during World War II. The X-ray is still a widely used method for medical diagnosis screening for signs of disease, usually tumors. This table represents some common Latin and Greek roots used in anatomy and physiology: English Form

Not that human anatomy and physiology aren’t specie-al. Humans’ bipedal posture and style of locomotion are very specie-al. There’s nothing like a human hand anywhere but at the end of a human arm. Most specie-al of all, possibly, is the anatomy and physiology that allows (or maybe compels) humans to engage in science: humankind’s highly developed brain and nervous system. It’s entirely within the norms of evolutionary theory that people would be most interested in their own specie-alties, so more humans find human anatomy and physiology more interesting than the anatomy and physiology of the alga. From here on, we’re restricting our discussion to the anatomy and physiology of our own species. How anatomy and physiology fit into science For anatomists and physiologists from Aristotle to Charles Darwin, the images they had were the sketches they made for themselves. Some of them were pretty good at it: Darwin’s sketches of beaks of the finches of the Galapagos Islands were both beautiful and scientifically valuable. Ventral cavity:Anterior portion of the torso; divided by the diaphragm into the thoracic cavity and abdominopelvic cavity



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