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What are anatomy and physiology?

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Anatomy and Physiology (A & P) are about human structure and function—the biology of the human body​

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what are the four ways of examining structure of the human body?

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  • Inspection​
  • Palpation​
  • Auscultation​
  • Percussion
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Describe Inspection.

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Visual Examination of the body or looking at the body

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Describe Palpation.

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Feeling the body with fingers or hands

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Describe Auscultation.

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Listening to sounds, usually with a stethoscope

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Describe Percussion.

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Producing sounds, usually by tapping on specific areas of the body

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What are some ways of studying human anatomy.​

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  • Medical Imaging (Radiology)
  • Gross Anatomy
  • Histology
  • Histopathy
  • Cytology
  • Ultrastructure
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Describe gross anatomy?

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Study of structures that can be seen with the naked eye​

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Describe Histopathology?

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Microscopic examination of tissues for signs of disease​

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Describe Cytology.

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Study of structure and function of cells​

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Describe Ultrastructure

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View detail under electron microscope​

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What are some subdisciplines of Anatomy and Physiology?

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  • Neurophysiology (physiology of nervous system)​
  • Endocrinology (physiology of hormones)​
  • Pathophysiology (mechanisms of disease)​
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Describe Neurophysiology?

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Physiology of nervous system

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Describe Endocrinology

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Physiology of hormones

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Describe Pathophysiology.

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Mechanisms of disease

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Describe comparative physiology.

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Study of different species to learn about body functions ​(comparing and contrasting)

  • Basis for much of our understanding of human physiology and the development of new drugs and medical procedures​
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What is a Scientific Fact.

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Information that can be independently verified​

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Describe the Law of Nature.

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  1. Generalization about the way matter and energy behave ​
  2. Results from inductive reasoning and repeated observations​
  3. Written as verbal statement or mathematical formula​
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Describe Theory.

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An explanatory statement or set of statements derived from facts, laws, and confirmed hypotheses​

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Who is Charles Darwin?

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He is primarily known as the architect of the theory of evolution by natural selection.

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Describe Evolution?

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Change in genetic composition of population of organisms; Example: development of bacterial resistance to antibiotics​

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Describe how evolution works.

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Through Natural Selection

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How does Natural Selection occur?

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  1. Selective pressures
  2. Adaptations
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Describe how Adaptations promote evolution.

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Adaptations are inherited features of anatomy and physiology that evolved in response to pressures and that enable organism to succeed; example: better camouflage​

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Describe how selective pressures promote evolution.
Selection pressures are forces that promote reproductive success of some individuals more than others; example: predators​
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Considering the hierarchy of complexity of life, which of the following levels is the most complex?
Organisms
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Considering the hierarchy of complexity of life, which of the following levels is the least complex?
Subatomic particles
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Organism composed of:
Organ systems
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Organ systems composed of:
Organs
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Organs composed of:
Tissues
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Tissues composed of:
Cells
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Cells composed of:
Organelles
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Organelles composed of:
Molecules
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Molecules composed of:
Atoms
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Describe reductionism.
States that large, complex systems can be understood by studying their simpler components
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Describe Holism.
States that “emergent properties” of the whole organism cannot be predicted from the properties of the separate parts.
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What are some ways to characterize life?
1. Organization 2. Cellular composition 3. Metabolism 4. Responsiveness 5. Movement 6. Homeostasis 7. Development 8. Reproduction 9. Evolution
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In terms of Metabolism, living things exhibit:
Internal Chemical Reactions
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In terms of responsiveness, living things have the ability:
Ability to sense and react to stimuli (irritability or excitability)
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In terms of organization, living things exhibit:
Living things exhibit a higher level of organization than nonliving things
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In terms of Cellular composition, living matter is always:
Always compartmentalized into one or more cells
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Living things exhibit homeostasis by:
maintaining relatively stable internal conditions
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Living things exhibit development by:
differentiation and growth
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Reproduction in living things involves:
Producing copies of themselves; passing genes to offspring
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Evolution in living things involves:
changes in genes
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Physiological Variations include:
Sex, age, diet, weight, physical activity, genetics and environment
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Describe Homeostasis.
The ability to detect change, activate mechanisms that oppose it, and thereby maintain relatively stable internal conditions
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Negative feedback allows for:
Allows for dynamic equilibrium within a limited range around a set point. (The body senses a change and “negates” or reverses it)
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Loss of homeostatic control causes
illness or death
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Because feedback mechanisms alter the original changes that triggered them, they are called:
Feedback loops
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Homeostasis in body temperature: If too warm:
Vessels dilate in the skin and sweating begins (heat-losing mechanism)
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Homeostasis in body temperature: If too cold:
Vessels in the skin constrict and shivering begins (heat-gaining mechanism)
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Negative feedback and Homeostasis involves a receptor, Integrating (control) center, Effector. Describe the receptor.
The receptor is a structure that senses change in the body (e.g., stretch receptors above heart that monitor blood pressure)
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Negative feedback and Homeostasis involves a receptor, Integrating (control) center, Effector. describe the integrating (control center)
Integrating (control) center is the control center that processes the sensory information, “makes a decision,” and directs the response (e.g., cardiac center of the brain)
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Negative feedback and Homeostasis involves a receptor, Integrating (control) center, Effector. describe the Effector
Effector is the cell or organ that carries out the final corrective action to restore homeostasis (e.g., the heart)
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Describe Postive Feedback.
It is a self-amplifying cycle. Leads to greater change in the same direction.
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For positive feedback, Feedback loop is:
repeated—change produces more change
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What are some examples of life events that involve positive feedback?
Examples include: childbirth, blood clotting, protein digestion, and generation of nerve signals
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Define Gradient
It is a difference in chemical concentration, charge, temperature, or pressure between two points
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Positive feedback, can be dangerous. Examples will be:
Vicious circle of runaway fever
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Matter and energy tend to flow :
down gradients
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Movement in the opposite direction is “up the gradient” and requires spending:
metabolic energy
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Who is the “Father of medicine”?
Hippocrates
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What did Aristotle believe?
1. Believed diseases had supernatural or physical causes. 2. Believed complex structures were built from simpler parts
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What did Robert Hooke contribute to modern medicine?
1. Made many improvements to compound microscope—two lenses: ocular lens (eyepiece) and objective lens (near specimen) 2. Published first comprehensive book of microscopy (Micrographia) in 1665
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What was Antony van Leeuwenhoek contribution to modern medicine?
1. Invented a simple (single-lens) microscope with great magnification to look at fabrics (200X) 2. Published his observations of blood, lake water, sperm, bacteria from tooth scrapings, and many other things
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