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• Cover
• Introduction
• About This Book
• Foolish Assumptions
• Icons Used in This Book
• Beyond the Book
• Where to Go from Here
• Part 1: The Building Blocks of the Body
• Chapter 1: The Language of Anatomy & Physiology
• Organization of the Body
• Getting into Position
• Answers to Questions on Terminology
• Chapter 2: The Chemistry of Life
• Building from Scratch: Atoms and Elements
• Chemical Reactions
• Cycling through Life: Metabolism
• Answers to Questions on Life’s Chemistry
• Chapter 3: The Cell: Life’s Basic Building Block
• Life and Death of a Cell
• Gaining Admission: The Cell Membrane
• Aiming for the Nucleus
• Looking Inside: Organelles and Their Functions
• Putting Together New Proteins
• Answers to Questions on the Cell
• Chapter 4: Divide and Conquer: Cellular Mitosis
• Walking through the Cell Cycle
• Understanding What Can Go Wrong during Cell Division
• Answers to Questions on Mitosis
• Chapter 5: The Study of Tissues: Histology
• Getting into Your Skin: Epithelial Tissue
• Making a Connection: Connective Tissue
• Flexing It: Muscle Tissue
• Getting the Signal Across: Nervous Tissue
• Answers to Questions on Histology
• Part 2: Weaving It Together: Bones, Muscles, and Skin
• Chapter 6: It’s Skin Deep: The Integumentary System
• Digging Deep into Dermatology
• Touching a Nerve in the Integumentary System
• Accessorizing with Hair, Nails, and Glands
• Answers to Questions on the Skin
• Chapter 7: A Scaffold to Build On: The Skeleton
• Understanding the Functions of Dem Bones
• Boning Up on Classifications and Structures
• Turning Bone into Bone: Ossification
• The Axial Skeleton: Keeping It All in Line
• The Appendicular Skeleton: Reaching beyond Our Girdles
• Arthrology: Articulating the Joints
• Answers to Questions on the Skeleton
• Chapter 8: Getting in Gear: The Muscles
• Flexing Your Muscle Knowledge
• Muscle Classifications: Smooth, Cardiac, and Skeletal
• Contracting for a Contraction
• Pulling Together: Muscles as Organs
• Assuming the Right Tone
• Leveraging Muscular Power
• What’s in a Name? Identifying Muscles
• Answers to Questions on Muscles
• Part 3: Mission Control: All Systems Go
• Chapter 9: Feeling Jumpy: The Nervous System
• Our Motherboard
• Building from Basics: Neurons, Nerves, and Glial Cells
• Feeling Impulsive?
• Minding the Central Nervous System
• Taking Side Streets: The Peripheral Nervous System
• Keep Breathing: The Autonomic Nervous System
• Coming to Your Senses
• Answers to Questions on the Nervous System
• Chapter 10: Raging Hormones: The Endocrine System
• No Bland Glands
• Enter the Ringmasters
• The Supporting Cast of Glandular Characters
• Dealing with Stress: Homeostasis
• Answers to Questions on the Endocrine System
• Part 4: Feed and Fuel: Supply and Transport
• Chapter 11: Spreading the Love: The Cardiovascular System
• Moving to the Beat of a Pump
• Finding the Key to the Heart’s Chambers
• Conducting the Heart’s Music
• Riding the Network of Blood Vessels
• Answers to Questions on the Cardiovascular System
• Chapter 12: Keeping Up Your Defenses: The Lymphatic System
• Duct, Duct, Lymph
• Poking at the Nodes
• Having a Spleen-did Time with the Lymphatic Organs
• Investigating Immunity
• Answers to Questions on the Lymphatic System
• Chapter 13: Oxygenating the Machine: The Respiratory System
• Breathing In the Basics
• Preparing the Air
• Answers to Questions on the Respiratory System
• Chapter 14: Fueling the Functions: The Digestive System
• Digesting the Basics: It’s Alimentary!
• Nothing to Spit At: Into the Mouth and Past the Teeth
• Stomaching the Body’s Fuel
• Breaking Down the Work of Digestive Enzymes
• One Last Look Before Leaving
• Answers to Questions on the Digestive Tract
• Chapter 15: Filtering Out the Junk: The Urinary System
• Examining the Kidneys, the Body’s Filters
• Focusing on Filtering
• Getting Rid of the Waste
• Answers to Questions on the Urinary System
• Part 5: Survival of the Species
• Chapter 16: Why Ask Y? The Male Reproductive System
• Identifying the Parts of the Male Reproductive System
• Packaging the Chromosomes for Delivery
• Answers to Questions on the Male Reproductive System
• Chapter 17: Carrying Life: The Female Reproductive System
• Identifying the Female Reproductive Parts and Their Functions
• Making Eggs: A Mite More Meiosis
• Making Babies: An Introduction to Embryology
• Growing from Fetus to Baby
• Parturition
• Growing, Changing, and Aging
• Answers to Questions on the Female Reproductive System
• Part 6: The Part of Tens
• Chapter 18: Ten Study Tips for Anatomy and Physiology Students
• Writing Down Important Stuff in Your Own Words
• Gaining Better Knowledge through Mnemonics
• Discovering Your Learning Style
• Getting a Grip on Greek and Latin
• Connecting with Concepts
• Forming a Study Group
• Outlining What’s to Come
• Putting In Time to Practice
• Sleuthing Out Clues
• Reviewing Your Mistakes
• Chapter 19: Ten Fun Physiology Facts
• Boning Up on the Skeleton
• Flexing Your Muscles
• Fighting Biological Invaders
• Cells Hair, There, and Everywhere
• Swallowing Some Facts about Saliva and the Stomach
• Appreciating the Extent of the Cardiovascular System
• “You’re Glowing” Isn’t Just an Expression
• Looking at a Few of Your Extra Parts
• Understanding Your Brain on Sleep
• Getting Sensational News
• About the Authors
• Advertisement Page
• Connect with Dummies
• Index
• End User License Agreement