Anatomy and Physiology For Dummies, 3rd Edition

Contents

1. Locating Physiology on the Web of Knowledge
• Chapter 1. Anatomy and Physiology: The Big Picture
  • Placing anatomy and physiology in a scientific framework
  • Jawing about jargon
  • Looking at anatomy: planes, regions, and cavities
  • Delineating life’s levels of organization
• Chapter 2. What Your Body Does All Day
  • Seeing what your body does automatically every day
  • Finding out what goes on inside of every cell
  • Discovering the importance of homeostasis
  • Building and maintaining your parts
• Chapter 3. A Bit about Cell Biology
  • Finding out what cells do
  • Taking a close look at cell structure
  • Expressing your genome
  • Seeing what kinds of tissues form your body
2. Sizing Up the Structural Layers
• Chapter 4. Getting the Skinny on Skin, Hair, and Nails
  • Seeing what the integument does
  • Explaining the integument’s structure
  • Taking a closer look at hair, nails, and glands
  • Understanding what your skin does for you
  • Checking out the integument’s pathophysiology
• Chapter 5. Scrutinizing the Skeletal System
  • Listing the functions of your skeleton
  • Breaking down the skeleton’s structure
  • Looking separately at the axial and appendicular skeletons
  • Joining everything together with joints
  • Noting some skeletal pathologies
• Chapter 6. Muscles: Setting You in Motion
  • Seeing how your muscular system moves you
  • Differentiating the three types of muscle tissue
  • Understanding how muscles contract
  • Taking a tour of the skeletal muscles
  • Looking at some skeletal muscle afflictions
3. Talking to Yourself
• Chapter 7. The Nervous System: Your Body’s Circuit Board
  • Summarizing the functions of the nervous system
  • Taking a detailed look at the CNS, the brain, and the PNS
  • Getting down to a cellular level — neurons and neuroglial cells
  • Relaying impulses through a cell and across a synapse
  • Receiving impulses: your five senses
  • Noting a few nervous system disorders
• Chapter 8. The Endocrine System: Releasing Chemical Messages
  • Understanding what hormones do and how they work
  • Reviewing the main glands and their functions
  • Looking at the effects of hormone disorders
4. Exploring the Inner Workings of the Body
• Chapter 9. The Cardiovascular System: Getting Your Blood Pumping
  • Looking at your blood and what’s in it
  • Discovering arteries, veins, and capillaries
  • Breaking down the heart’s parts
  • Following blood along its path through your body
  • Looking at some cardiovascular system problems
• Chapter 10. The Respiratory System: Breathing Life into Your Body
  • Understanding what the respiratory system does
  • Checking out the parts of the respiratory system
  • Drawing in some breathing knowledge
  • Looking at some common respiratory system ailments
• Chapter 11. The Digestive System: Beginning the Breakdown
  • Explaining what the digestive system does
  • Following the path of the digestive tract
  • Focusing on the liver, pancreas, and digestive fluids
  • Discovering some digestive system diseases
• Chapter 12. The Urinary System: Cleaning Up the Act
  • Understanding what the urinary system does
  • Breaking down the urinary system’s parts
  • Ruminating on the role of urine
  • Seeing how your body maintains homeostasis
  • Describing some urinary system disorders
• Chapter 13. The Lymphatic System: Living in a Microbe Jungle
  • Figuring out what the lymphatic system does
  • Lymphing along
  • Exploring immune system cells, molecules, and mechanisms
  • Looking at some immune disorders
5. Life’s Rich Pageant: Reproduction and Development
• Chapter 14. The Reproductive System
  • Unscrambling the human egg
  • Getting the gametes together
  • Responding to pregnancy’s changes
  • Reviewing reproductive system problems
• Chapter 15. Change and Development over the Life Span
  • Unfolding in real time: the drama of development
  • Summarizing the miracle of reproduction
  • Changing through life
6. The Part of Tens
• Chapter 16. Ten (Or So) Chemistry Concepts Related to Anatomy and Physiology
  • Understanding the nature of energy
  • Getting a handle on fluid properties, osmosis, and polarity
  • Transferring electrons with redox reactions
• Chapter 17. Ten Phabulous Physiology Phacts
  • Ruminating on your thumbs, hair, and nose
  • Making friends with microbes, milk, and your appendix
  • Taking in oxygen and transporting it with hemoglobin
7. Supplemental Images