Main description:

With 30 exercises covering all body systems; a clear, engaging writing style; and full-color illustrations, this updated edition offers you everything needed for a successful lab experience. This edition features updated pre-lab quizzes at the beginning of each exercise, new Group Challenge activities, and an updated art program. * A wide variety of laboratory exercises and activities gives students a hands-on lab experience, including organ and body dissection activities for the cat, sheep, and cow. *Beautiful, full-color art and photos help students visualize anatomical structures for laboratory practice. *Thorough, clearly-written exercises assist students in comprehending and retaining the material. They include background information, a list of objectives, step-by-step instructions, and exercise review sheets. Integrated to follow each lab exercise, the review sheets can be used for pre- or post-lab review. *Human and cat anatomy dissection photographs/plates are included. * The "Organ Systems Overview" dissection exercise includes instruction on both rat and human dissection. Color photographs of rat and human dissection views further enhance the exercise.
*The spiral binding gives students a useful, convenient format for taking notes during lab. *Perforated pages make it convenient for students to tear out the Review Sheets.

Contents:

Preface for the Instructor A Word to the Student The Human Body: An Orientation Exercise 1. The Language of Anatomy Exercise 2. Organ Systems Overview The Microscope and Its Uses Exercise 3. The Microscope Exercise 4. The Cell: Anatomy and Division Histology: Basic Tissues of the Body Exercise 5. Classification of Tissues The Integumentary System Exercise 6. The Integumentary System The Skeletal System Exercise 7. Overview of the Skeleton: Classification and Structure of Bones and Cartilages Exercise 8. The Axial Skeleton Exercise 9. The Appendicular Skeleton Exercise 10. Articulations and Body Movements The Muscular System Exercise 11. Microscopic Anatomy and Organization of Skeletal Muscle Exercise 12. Gross Anatomy of the Muscular System The Nervous System Exercise 13. Histology of Nervous Tissue Exercise 14. Gross Anatomy of the Brain and Cranial Nerves Exercise 15. The Spinal Cord and Spinal Nerves Exercise 16. The Autonomic Nervous System Exercise 17. Special Senses: Anatomy of the Visual System Exercise 18. Special Senses: Visual Tests and Experiments Exercise 19. Special Senses: Hearing and Equilibrium Exercise 20. Special Senses: Olfaction and Taste The Endocrine System Exercise 21. Functional Anatomy of the Endocrine Glands The Circulatory System Exercise 22. Blood Exercise 23. Anatomy of the Heart Exercise 24. Anatomy of Blood Vessels Exercise 25. The Lymphatic System and Immune Response The Respiratory System Exercise 26. Anatomy of the Respiratory System The Digestive System Exercise 27. Anatomy of the Digestive System The Urinary System Exercise 28. Anatomy of the Urinary System The Reproductive System Exercise 29. Anatomy of the Reproductive System Surface Anatomy Exercise 30. Surface Anatomy Roundup Appendix: The Metric System Credits Index