HAN 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Auscultation, Stethoscope, Histology
12 Aug 2016
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Chapter 1 the human body: an orientation. * define anatomy and physiology and describe their subdivisions. Three essential concepts: the complementarity of structure and function, the hierarchy of structural organization, homeostasis. Anatomy: (greek for to cut apart ) studies the structure of body parts and their relationships to one another. Physiology: concerns the function of the body; how the body parts work and carry out their life- sustaining activities (only explainable in the underlying terms of anatomy) Microscopic anatomy: deals with structures too small to be seen with the naked eye: cytology: the study of cells of the body, histology: the study of tissues. Developmental anatomy: traces structural changes that occur in the body throughout the life span: embryology: studies developmental changes that occur before birth. * other branches of anatomy: pathological anatomy: studies structural changes caused by disease, radiographic anatomy: studies internal structures as visualized by x-ray images or specialized scanning procedures.
