ANAT 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scrotum, Mediastinum, Trachea

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Anatomy and Cell Biology
• Course: ANAT 215
• Professor: Leslie W Mac Kenzie

Document Summary

Anatomy 215 (reading material: chapter 1: pages 5-21) Levels of structural organizaion: chemicals: atoms organized into molecules (dna, glucose, cells: the basic structural and funcional living units an organism (muscle cells, nerve cells, blood cells) Systems: consists of related organs with a common funcion (digesive system) Intact organism: all the systems are structurally integrated and funcion cooperaively to consitute the total organism (the human body) Inner tube: gastrointesinal tract: outer tube: body wall. Body divisions: axial: includes the head, neck, and trunk, appendicular: includes the limbs, which are atached to the body"s axis (the extremiies) Body caviies (hollow spaces within the human body that contain internal organs): Located toward the back of the body: divided into the cranial cavity and vertebral cavity, cranial cavity: holds the brain, vertebral canal: holds the spinal cord. Located toward the front of the body: divided into abdominopelvic cavity and thoracic cavity by the diaphragm.