Anatomy & Physiology Study Guide

What's inside

• Start Herehow to use the guide, a study plan for all 11 systems, every system at a glance on one page, body basics and homeostasis, directional terms, body planes and cavities, the cell (parts, membrane transport, cell division) and the four tissue types with body membranes
• 11 body system summary pagesintegumentary, skeletal, muscular, nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, lymphatic, respiratory, digestive, urinary and reproductive. Each page shows what the system does, its key structures and their jobs, one key process drawn as a flow chart (blood flow through the heart, path of air, path of food, path of urine, a reflex, a hormone feedback loop and more) and key facts
• Up-close tables for the big systemsbones of the axial and appendicular skeleton, bone shapes and joints, decoding muscle names and muscle actions, brain, meninges, spinal cord and nervous system divisions, glands and their hormones, blood vessels and circulation, digestive organs, male and female reproductive organs
• 8 labeling diagrams drawn as clean textbook-style schematicsthe cell, skin, skeleton, neuron, heart, respiratory tree, digestive tract and nephron. Numbered blanks to fill in, plus a short "which part does this job?" exercise on several of them
• Review33 fill-in-the-blank quick checks, a Which System? matching quiz, Put It in Order (blood, air, food and urine pathways), a mastery tracker and notes
• Answer key behind a divider at the backevery labeled diagram and every practice page
• START-HERE guide with printing and tablet tips