Anatomy & Physiology All-in-One For Dummies

watch Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction About This Book Foolish Assumptions Icons Used in This Book Beyond the Book Where to Go from Here Unit 1 Locating Physiology on the Web of Knowledge Chapter 1 Learning a New Language: How to Speak Fluent A&P A Word about Jargon Looking at the Body from the Proper Perspective Getting in position Dividing the anatomy Mapping the regions Casing your cavities Getting Organized Level 1: The organism level Level 2: The organ system level Level 3: The organ level Level 4: The tissue level Level 5: The cellular level Level 6: The molecular level Whaddya Know? Chapter 1 Quiz Answers to Chapter 1 Quiz Chapter 2 Better Living through Chemistry What’s the Matter? Keep Your Ion the Prize Try on some ions Water, water everywhere Remaining neutral Building Blocks That Build You Carbohydrates Lipids Proteins Amino acids Enzymes Nucleic acids Metabolism: It’s More Than Just Food Charging Your Batteries Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 2 Quiz Answers to Chapter 2 Quiz Chapter 3 The Secret Life of Cells Keeping Same Things the Same: Homeostasis Maintaining a constant temperature: Thermoregulation Swimming in H2O: Fluid balance Division of Labor Mission Control: The nucleus The workhorses: Organelles and their functions Controlling the Ins and Outs Diffusion Osmosis Active transport Divide and Conquer Walking through the cell cycle Waiting for action: Interphase Sorting out the parts: Prophase Dividing at the equator: Metaphase Packing up to move out: Anaphase Pinching off: Telophase Splitting up: Cytokinesis Differentiation Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 3 Quiz Answers to Chapter 3 Quiz Chapter 4 Joining Forces: Cells Organize into Tissues Covering Up: Epithelial Tissues Making a Connection: Connective Tissues Proper connective tissue Specialized connective tissue Flexing It: Muscle Tissues Getting the Signal Across: Nervous Tissue Whaddya Know? Chapter 4 Quiz Answers to Chapter 4 Quiz Unit 2 Weaving It All Together: The Structural Layers Chapter 5 It’s Just Skin Deep: The Integumentary System Meet & Greet and Love the Skin You’re In Digging Deep into Dermatology Don’t judge this book by its cover: The epidermis The thin, impervious cover The transit zone The cell farm The basement Exploring the dermis Under the basement The manufacturing site Getting under your skin: The hypodermis No Skin Is Complete without Accessories Wigging out about hair Nailing nails The oil slick Sweating the details Grateful for glands Your Sensational Skin Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 5 Quiz Answers to Chapter 5 Quiz Chapter 6 More than a Scaffold to Build On: The Skeletal System Meet & Greet Your Body’s Foundation Boning Up on Bone Structures Classifying bones Bone structures Parts of a long bone Histology Bone cells Bone tissue Turning Bones into Bone Observing ossification Getting a grip on growth Intramembranous growth Endochondral growth Remodel & repair The Axial Skeleton It’s good to be hardheaded Cracking the cranium Facing the facial bones Sniffing out the sinuses Stand up straight Being caged can be a good thing The Appendicular Skeleton Wearing girdles: Everybody has two Going out on a limb Giving you a hand with hands (and arms and elbows) Getting a leg up on your lower limbs Artful Articulations Form versus function Jump around with your joints Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 6 Quiz Answers to Chapter 6 Quiz Chapter 7 Getting in Gear: The Muscles Meet & Greet Your Mighty Muscles Structure Matches Function On the move: The three tissue types No ordinary cells The Electric Slide What are filaments and how do they slide? Get your motor runnin’ Time to relax Push, Pull, & Hold Bundles of fun Leveraging power Assuming the right tone What’s in a Name? Heads up! Muscles of the head, neck, and shoulders Twisting the torso Spreading your wings Getting a leg up Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 7 Quiz Answers to Chapter 7 Quiz Unit 3 Talking to Yourself Chapter 8 Your Electric Personality Meet & Greet the Far-Reaching Nervous System Integrating the Input with the Output Neurons Glial cells Nerves Ganglia and plexuses Feeling Impulsive? Stimulus Action potential versus impulse Across the synapse Minding the Central Nervous System Show some spine Finding your way around Grand Central Station The brainstem The diencephalon The cerebellum The cerebrum The meninges and ventricles Taking the Side Streets: The Peripheral Nervous System Getting on your nerves Catlike reflexes Have some sympathy Sensory Overload Out of touch Seeing is believing Have you heard? You have good taste You smell well Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 8 Quiz Answers to Chapter 8 Quiz Chapter 9 Raging Hormones: The Endocrine System Meet & Greet Your Body’s Chemical Messengers Honing In on Hormones We have good chemistry How function dictates structure The Ringmasters The hypothalamus The pituitary gland Anterior pituitary Posterior pituitary The Cast of Characters Topping off the kidneys: The adrenal glands The adrenal cortex The adrenal medulla Thriving with the thyroid Pairing up with the parathyroid Pinging the pineal gland Thumping the thymus Pressing the pancreas Getting the gonads going Estrogen Progesterone Testosterone Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 9 Quiz Answers to Chapter 9 Quiz Unit 4 Traveling the World Chapter 10 The River(s) of Life Blood Is Thicker than Water No river runs dry Moving trucks: Red blood cells Waiting on a war: White blood cells Plugging up with platelets The In-Between The stealthy swap: Capillary exchange A new organ? The interstitium Of Sirens and Lymphs Whaddya Know? Chapter 10 Quiz Answers to Chapter 10 Quiz Chapter 11 Spreading the Love: The Cardiovascular System Meet & Greet Your Pumping Station Home Is Where the Heart Is In through the front: The atria Out through the back: The ventricles Your Heart Song The orchestra The conductor The performance The recording Moving to the Beat of Your Own Drum It’s all in vein Starting with the arteries Cruising the capillaries Visiting the veins Keep your finger on the pulse Under pressure Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 11 Quiz Answers to Chapter 11 Quiz Chapter 12 Underground Defenses: The Lymphatic System Meet & Greet Your Body’s Customs and Border Control Having a Spleendid time The Spleen The thymus gland The tonsils, Peyer’s patches, and appendix Picking Your Nodes Immunity: A Three-Act Play The set The stars of the show: Leukocytes Their talents: Mechanisms of action Phagocytosis Degranulation Inflammation Act 1: Innate Immunity Act 2: Adaptive Immunity Cell-mediated immunity Humoral immunity Act 3: Becoming Immune Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 12 Quiz Answers to Chapter 12 Quiz Unit 5 Supply and Demand Chapter 13 Oxygenating the Machine: The Respiratory System Meet & Greet the Old Windbags A Breath of Fresh Air Nose around Jump down your throat The upside-down tree The light at the end of the tunnel Breathe In the Good, Breathe Out the Bad Keep it under control Normal breathing Giving it that little extra Mechanics All in One Breath Passing gas The carpool line Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 13 Quiz Answers to Chapter 13 Quiz Chapter 14 Fueling the Fire: The Digestive System Meet & Greet the Alimentary School Nothing to Spit At It all begins in the mouth Swallow your pride The Stomach: More Than a Vat of Acid Breaking Down Digestive Enzymes The liver delivers Pancreas party Down in the duodenum Double Duty: The Small Intestine and the Liver One Last Look Before Leaving The unappreciated appendix The big bowel Mass movements Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 14 Quiz Answers to Chapter 14 Quiz Chapter 15 Cleaning Up Your Act: The Urinary System Meet & Greet the Body’s Recycling and Waste Management System Focus on Filtration Can’t we just take out the trash? Resource recovery Tubular reabsorption Water reabsorption Tubular secretion The Yellow River Surfing the ureters Ballooning the bladder Sweet relief The Homeostasis Machines Regulating blood pH Controlling blood volume Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 15 Quiz Answers to Chapter 15 Quiz Unit 6 Making a Mini-Me: Behind the Scenes Chapter 16 Why Ask Y? Gamete Production Producing Gametes Meiosis Male versus female Female gametes: Ova Male gametes: Spermatozoa Meet & Greet the Male Reproductive System Sperm development Semen production Arousal and ejaculation Meet & Greet the Female Reproductive System Mapping the female organs Ovaries Uterine tubes Uterus Vagina Vulva Breasts The vicious cycle The ovarian cycle The uterine cycle Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 16 Quiz Answers to Chapter 16 Quiz Chapter 17 Baking the Bundle of Joy Fertilization: A Battle for the Ages! And So It Begins Implantation Embryonic development Finishing Out the Trimesters The placenta Fetal development The Fun Part: Labor and Delivery A labor of love Special delivery Practice Questions Answers and Explanations Whaddya Know? Chapter 17 Quiz Answers to Chapter 17 Quiz Chapter 18 From Cradle to Grave Programming Development Stages of development Dimensions of development Growth Differentiation Decline Human Life Span Changes at birth Infancy and childhood Adolescence Female puberty Male puberty Ending adolescence Young adulthood Pausing for pregnancy Uterus Ovaries Breasts Other organ systems The “Middle Ages” Growing creaky Whaddya Know? Chapter 18 Quiz Answers to Chapter 18 Quiz Index EULA