Anatomy and Physiology For Dummies, 3rd Edition (For Dummies (Lifestyle))

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If you’re gearing up for a career in the medical field and need to take this often-tough class to fulfill your academic requirements as a high school or college student, this workbook gives you the edge you need to pass with flying colors.

Jargon is a set of words and phrases that people who know a lot about a particular subject use to talk together. 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. Human anatomy is the science of the human body’s structures — things that can be touched, weighed, and analyzed. i>

Pat DuPree taught anatomy/physiology, biology, medical terminology, and environmental science.

Taxonomy is the science of evolutionary relationships, expressed as a series of mutually exclusive categories. Although anatomy and physiology combined are classified as a subsection of biology, it’s truly an interdisciplinary science. However, sometimes a slightly different presentation of a fact or of the relationship between facts can lead to a small aha! Species Sapiens: All species are given a two-part Latin name, in which the genus name comes first and a species epithet comes second.

I would recommend this book to anyone taking a course in A and P or just anyone wanting to learn more about the human body. If you’re a casual reader (you’re not enrolled in a formal course in anatomy and physiology and have little or no background in biology), the following approach may work well. This publication reaches over 15,000 people in and around the Winston-Salem community, and SmittysNotes.as well as the following smaller cavities:

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  Pleural cavities: Surround each lung

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  Pericardial cavity: Contains the heart. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. The isotope emits radiation continuously from within the body, allowing the metabolism of the drug to be traced by radiation detectors and digitally converted to images. Obvious details of anatomy (the presence or absence of bright green tissue) and physiology (the presence or absence of locomotion) tell that story.

  It travels to and concentrates in the anatomical structure of interest, and the drug is metabolized there.Don’t sweat too much over terminology; for your purposes, saying of my lungs communicates as well as pulmonary. As we study organ systems, organs, tissues, and cells, we’re always looking from the organism level. However, we’re guessing that a large proportion of readers are using this book to supplement instructional material in career training for a clinical environment, so the information throughout the book is slightly slanted in that direction. 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). J. Reynolds High School and Wake Forest University, where he got his first taste of the media as an announcer for the student-run station, WAKE Radio.