NURS 1750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nervous Tissue, Histology, Trachea

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Nursing
• Course: NURS 1750
• Professor: Katherine Moyer

Document Summary

Anatomy is the structure of body structures and their relationship. Physiology science of body functions or how the body works: structure and function of the body are closely related: structure mirrors function. Gross anatomy (aka cadaver anatomy): dissection: systemic approach: individual organ systems, regional approach. Embryology: where cells come from, how they work, signals they give off to start forming structures. Pathology: study of anatomical changes due to disease. The cell is next in complexity after chemical. Most basic functional unit of your body. Cells are the basic structural and functional units of an organism. 4 basic types: connective (pink picture, epithelial (rows of cells, muscular, nervous tissue: neuron. Organs: lungs, liver, kidneys, brain, heart, uterus, ovaries, eye, gallbladder, testes, pancreas, spleen, small intestine, large intestine, stomach, appendix, esophagus, urinary bladder, rectum, tra(cid:272)hea, ski(cid:374), ster(cid:374)u(cid:373), th(cid:455)roid, et(cid:272) . An organ system consists or related organs with a common function. Ex/ the digestive system: break down food and eliminate waste.