Main description:

This brief, hands-on lab manual is built specifically to accommodate the fast pace of one-semester A&P labs. It complements any one-semester A&P text and provides 27 concise, activity-based exercises. Each lab includes a new pre-lab quiz, learning objectives, summaries of key concepts, a variety of activities, and an integrated review sheet. The manual also includes a full-color Histology Atlas with 55 photomicrographs.

Contents:

Unit One: Human Body and Orientation 1. The Language of Anatomy 2. Organ Systems Overview Unit Two: The Cell 3. The Cell - Anatomy and Division 4. Cell Membrane Transport Mechanisms Unit Three: Basic Tissues and the Skin 5. Classification of Tissues 6. The Skin (Integumentary System) Unit Four: The Skeletal System 7. Overview of the Skeleton 8. The Axial Skeleton 9. The Appendicular Skeleton 10. Microscopic Anatomy and Organization of Skeletal Muscle Unit Five: The Muscular System 11. Structure of Skeletal Muscle 12. Gross Anatomy of the Muscular System Unit Six: Regulatory Systems: Neural and Endocrine 13. Neuron Anatomy and Physiology 14. Gross Anatomy of the Brain and Cranial Nerves 15. Spinal Cord and Spinal Nerves 16. Human Reflex Physiology 17. The Special Senses 18. Funcational Anatomy of the Endocrine Glands Unit Seven: The Circulatory System 19. Blood 20. Anatomy of the Heart 21. Anatomy of Blood Vessels 22. Human Cardiovascular Physiology-Blood Pressure and Pulse Determinations Unit Eight: The Respiratory System 23. Anatomy of the Respiratory System 24. Respiratory System Physiology Unit Nine: Other Major Systems 25. Functional Anatomy of the Digestive System 26. Functional Anatomy of the Urinary System 27. Anatomy of the Reproductive System