Your ticket to acing Clinical Anatomy

Clinical anatomy is the study of human anatomy as it relates to clinical practice. Unlike a basic anatomy and physiology course designed to teach general anatomical knowledge, clinical anatomy focuses on specific structures and issues that people may encounter in a clinical setting.

Clinical Anatomy For Dummies presents a friendly, unintimidating overview of the material covered in a typical college-level Clinical Anatomy course. Clear definitions, concise explanations, and plenty of full-color illustrations make Clinical Anatomy For Dummies the most accessible book available to supplement your classroom texts.

• Plain-English explanations make difficult concepts easy to grasp
• Tracks to a typical college-level Clinical Anatomy course
• Features a 16-page color insert

Whether you're a student or a practicing healthcare worker, Clinical Anatomy for Dummies makes this subject accessible and easy to grasp.

David Terfera, PhD, teaches biomedical sciences at the University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine. Shereen Jegtvig, DC, MS,
is a health and nutrition writer.

Your ticket to acing Clinical Anatomy

Clinical anatomy is the study of human anatomy as it relates to
clinical practice. Unlike a basic anatomy and physiology course
designed to teach general anatomical knowledge, clinical anatomy
focuses on specific structures and issues that people may encounter
in a clinical setting.

Clinical Anatomy For Dummies presents a friendly,
unintimidating overview of the material covered in a typical
college-level Clinical Anatomy course. Clear definitions, concise
explanations, and plenty of full-color illustrations make
Clinical Anatomy For Dummies the most accessible book
available to supplement your classroom texts.

* Plain-English explanations make difficult concepts easy to
grasp

* Tracks to a typical college-level Clinical Anatomy course

* Features a 16-page color insert

Whether you're a student or a practicing healthcare worker,
Clinical Anatomy for Dummies makes this subject accessible
and easy to grasp.

Introduction 1

About This Book 1

Conventions Used in This Book 1

What You're Not to Read 2

Foolish Assumptions 2

How This Book is Organized 2

Part I: Beginning with Clinical Anatomy Basics 3

Part II: Understanding the Thorax, Abdomen, and Pelvis 3

Part III: Looking at the Head, Neck, and Back 3

Part IV: Moving to the Upper and Lower Extremities 3

Part V: The Part of Tens 3

Icons Used in This Book 4

Where to Go from Here 4

Part I: Beginning with Clinical Anatomy Basics 5

Chapter 1: Entering the World of Clinical Anatomy 7

Studying the Body in Different Ways 7

Looking under the microscope or with your eyes 7

Speaking clinically: Terms used in clinical anatomy 8

Dividing the Body into Systems and Regions 8

Organizing the body by systems 9

Organizing the body by regions 10

Chapter 2: Getting a Grip on Terms Used in Clinical Anatomy 13

Describing Anatomy by Position, Region, and Plane 13

Beginning with the anatomical position 14

Figuring out what goes where in anatomical regions 14

Knowing what's up, down, back, and front in specific terms 16

Slicing the body into anatomical planes 17

Labeling Anatomical Movement 19

Bending and straightening 19

Going away and getting closer 19

Moving in circles 20

Surveying other ways to move 20

Chapter 3: Examining the Integumentary, Musculoskeletal, and Nervous Systems 23

Showing Interest in Integument 23

Looking at the layers and structures of the skin 24

Going in farther to the fascia 26

Boning Up on the Skeleton 26

Figuring out what makes a bone 26

Surveying the shapes of bones 27

Feeling out bumps, ridges, and indentations 28

Catching Up to Cartilage 29

Joining the Joints 29

Making the Body Move with Muscles 31

Moving the bones with skeletal muscle 31

Keeping the heart ticking with cardiac muscle 33

Having no control over smooth muscle 34

Getting on Your Nerves 34

Determining what's in (and on) a neuron 35

Coordinating input and signals with the central nervous system 36

Touching and moving with the peripheral nervous system 36

Feeling and reacting with the somatic nervous system 37

Taking control with the autonomic nervous system 37

Chapter 4: Moving Along with the Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems 39

Tracing Circulatory Pathways in the Cardiovascular System 39

Making the rounds: Systemic circulation 40

Fueling up: Pulmonary circulation 41

Moving Blood Away from the Heart with Arteries 43

Looking inside large elastic arteries 44

Moving to medium muscular arteries 44

Surveying small arteries and arterioles 44

Taking Blood Back to the Heart with Capillaries and Veins 45

Exchanging gases, nutrients, and wastes in capillaries 45

Peeking into veins and venules 46

Breathing In and Out: The Respiratory System 47

Chapter 5: Looking at the Immune and Lymphatic Systems 49

Beginning with Red Bone Marrow and Leukocytes 49

Fighting infection with lymphocytes 50

Binging on bacteria with phagocytes 50

Controlling histamines with basophils 51

Surveying the Lymphatic System 51

Networking with lymphatic capillaries and vessels 51

Filtering lymph through nodes 52

Collecting lymph in ducts 53

Assessing Additional Lymphoid Organs 54

The thymus 54

The spleen 55

The tonsils, the appendix, and the gut 55

Chapter 6: Delving into the Digestive, Urinary, and Endocrine Systems 57

Breaking Down and Absorbing Your Food: The Digestive System 57

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