BIOL 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Abdominal Cavity, Negative Feedback, Inductive Reasoning
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Distinct, but interrelated: physiology depends on underlying anatomy, anatomical structures in isolation are not meaningful without physiological processes, leads to: Ways to study anatomy: by looking at it (inspection) If no tool is needed to observe it, you"re observing gross anatomy . Observation of ultrastructure requires other techniques like electron microscopy: physical examination including: Percussion: dissections of cadavers, use of comparative anatomy (comparing to another species, medical imaging (radiology) is useful for studying living patient"s anatomy. Ways to study physiology: understanding physiology relies on knowing anatomy, experimental methods used to help us explain how and why something works the way it does. Comparative physiology has been a useful tool for example. History of physiological study: came after anatomy was studied appropriately. Physiology was not well studied until after the general scientific community moved from an inductive method of. Looks for a trend or a pattern in the observations.
