Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology FROM THE PUBLISHER
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Cross-references to the main textbook, Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology, help students locate in-depth information when required. Focus on Procedures helps students quickly identify the laboratory procedures that need to be performed. Concept Check questions ensure that students understand one section of the exercises before moving forward. Clinical Comments illustrate the relevance of anatomy and physiology to daily life. Lab Reports utilize innovative concept maps to synthesize the concepts discovered in the laboratory exercises to the list of questions posed in the chapter opener.
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Booknews
A colorful, graphic introductory text for undergraduates, featuring many learning aids, including boxes on clinical topics and specific body components, detailed color anatomical illustrations and diagrams of physiological processes, graphical embryology summaries, and illustrations showing how different body systems are integrated. After chapters on the chemical and cellular levels of organization, information is organized in chapters on various body systems, with chapter exercises, key terms, detailed chapter reviews, review questions, and critical thinking and application questions, plus answers. This edition contains expanded material in many areas, more photos and new illustrations, plus an applications manual with additional questions and problems and color anatomical photos. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Booknews
Introductory textbook for a nurses' anatomy course. Basic patterns and organizatoinal themes are stressed throughout. Six parts cover levels of organization, support and movement, control and regulation, fluids and transport, environmental exchange, continuity of life. Lucid color illustrations. No bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)