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Anatomy & Physiology Workbook For Dummies, 3rd Edition with Online Practice

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Whether your aim is to become a physical therapist or a pharmacist, a doctor or an acupuncturist, a nutritionist or a personal trainer, a registered nurse or a paramedic, a parent or simply a healthy human being your efforts have to be based on a good understanding of anatomy and physiology. But knowing that the knee bone connects to the thigh bone (or does it?) is just the tip of the iceberg. In Anatomy & Physiology Workbook For Dummies, 3rd Edition, you discover intricacies that will leave you agog with wonder. The human body is a miraculous biological machine capable of growing, interacting with the world, and even reproducing despite any number of environmental odds stacked against it. Understanding how the bodys interlaced systems accomplish these feats requires a close look at everything from chemistry to structural mechanics.

Early anatomists relied on dissections to study the human body, which is why the Greek word anatomia means to cut up or dissect. Anatomical references have been found in Egypt dating back to 1600 BC, but it was the Greeks Hippocrates, in particular who first dissected bodies for medical study around 420 BC. Thats why more than two millennia later we still use words based on Greek and Latin roots to identify anatomical structures.

Thats also part of the reason so much of the study of anatomy and physiology feels like learning a foreign language. Truth be told, you are working with a foreign language, but its the language of you and the one body youre ever going to have.

This workbook isnt meant to replace a textbook, and its certainly not meant to replace going to an actual anatomy and physiology class. It is designed as a supplement to your ongoing education and as a study aid in prepping for exams. Thats why we give you insight into what your instructor most likely will emphasize as you move from one body system or structure to the next.

Your coursework might cover things in a different order than weve chosen for this book. We encourage you to take full advantage of the table of contents and the index to find the material addressed in your class. Whatever you do, certainly dont feel obligated to go through this workbook in any particular order. However, please do answer the practice questions and check the answers at the end of each chapter because, in addition to answers, we clarify why the right answer is the right answer and why the other answers are incorrect; we also provide you with memory tools and other tips whenever possible.

Within this book, you may note that some web addresses break across two lines of text. If youre reading this book in print and want to visit one of these web pages, simply key in the web address exactly as its noted in the text, pretending as though the line break doesnt exist. If youre reading this as an e-book, youve got it easy just click the web address to be taken directly to the web page.

In writing Anatomy & Physiology Workbook For Dummies, 3rd Edition, we had to make some assumptions about you, the reader. If any of the following apply, this books for you:

• Youre an advanced high school student or college student trying to puzzle out anatomy and physiology for the first time.
• Youre a student at any level whos returning to the topic after some time away, and you need some refreshing.
• Youre facing an anatomy and physiology exam and want a good study tool to ensure that you have a firm grasp of the topic.

Because this is a workbook, we had to limit our exposition of each and every topic so that we could include lots of practice questions to keep you guessing. (Believe us, we could go on forever about this anatomy and physiology stuff!) In leaving out some of the explanation of the topics covered in this book, we assume that youre not just looking to dabble in anatomy and physiology and therefore have access to at least one textbook on the subject.