BIOL 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Outline Of Human Anatomy, Surface Anatomy, Comparative Anatomy
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Anatomy (greek anatom , dissection ) is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts. [1] anatomy is a branch of natural science dealing with the structural organization of living things. It is an old science, having its beginnings in prehistoric times. [2] anatomy is inherently tied to embryology, comparative anatomy, evolutionary biology, and phylogeny,[3] as these are the processes by which anatomy is generated over immediate (embryology) and long (evolution) timescales. Human anatomy is one of the basic essential sciences of medicine. [4] anatomy and physiology, which study (respectively) the structure and function of organisms and their parts, make a natural pair of related disciplines, and they are often studied together. The discipline of anatomy is divided into macroscopic and microscopic anatomy. Macroscopic anatomy, or gross anatomy, is the examination of an animal"s body parts using unaided eyesight. Gross anatomy also includes the branch of superficial anatomy.
