Shows students the links between normal anatomy and physiology and important disease statest while teaching basic diagnostic principles and developing critical thinking skills.
This eighth edition includes new chapter openings, new sentence-style chapter headings and a new and simple tips & tricks feature that gives students easy analogies and mnemonic devices to help them remember information.
This book covers the latest information on the anatomic features, underlying physiologic mechanisms, and treatments for diseases of the heart. Key chapters address animal models for cardiac research, cardiac mapping systems, heart-valve disease and genomics-based tools and technology. Once again, a companion of supplementary videos offer unique insights into the working heart that enhance the understanding of key points within the text. Comprehensive and state-of-the art, the Handbook of Cardiac Anatomy, Physiology and Devices, Third Edition provides clinicians and biomedical engineers alike with the authoritative information and background they need to work on and implement tomorrow’s generation of life-saving cardiac devices.
Seagrasses are a vital and widespread but often overlooked coastal marine habitat. This volume provides a global survey of their distribution and conservation status.
Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach’s “acutely entertaining, morbidly fascinating” (Susan Adams, Forbes) classic, now with a new epilogue. For two thousand years, cadavers – some willingly, some unwittingly – have been involved in science’s boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They’ve tested France’s first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender confirmation surgery, cadavers have helped make history in their quiet way. “Delightful—though never disrespectful” (Les Simpson, Time Out New York), Stiff investigates the strange lives of our bodies postmortem and answers the question: What should we do after we die? “This quirky, funny read offers perspective and insight about life, death and the medical profession. . . . You can close this book with an appreciation of the miracle that the human body really is.” —Tara Parker-Pope, Wall Street Journal “Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting.” —Entertainment Weekly
For a 1 term or 1-2 quarter course for 1st and 2nd year undergraduate course in allied health, biology, PE or general studies. It provides a uniform depth of coverage for all body systems, yet is still a brief text. Emphasis is placed on essential fundamental concepts, applications and terminology without excessive detail. This text is known for its clarity of presentation and its outstanding illustration program. Innovative pedagogical elements and a tightly-integrated supplements package make this new edition an excellent choice for brief A & P courses. *Updated and improved coverage throughout; with an emphasis on Chemistry, Muscular System and the Nervous System *The Applications Manual for the second edition provides a wealth of additional clinical, however, it is now strictly optional. The Applications Manual is sold separately, or available free when shrinkwrapped with Essentials, 2/e *Fundamentals of A & P Interactive Student CD-ROM is available free with the text;Correlated to Martini's Fundamentals of Anatomy & Physiology 4th edition but applicable to many topics in Essentials of, this powerful learning tool uses interactive cases and animated tutorials to help A & P come
Elephants are possibly the most well-known members of the animal kingdom. The enormous size, unusual anatomy, and longevity of elephants have fascinated humans for millenia. Biology, Medicine, and Surgery of Elephants serves as a comprehensive text on elephant medicine and surgery. Based on the expertise of 36 scientists and clinical veterinarians, this volume covers biology, husbandry, veterinary medicine and surgery of the elephant as known today. Written by the foremost experts in the field Comprehensively covers both Asian and African elephants Complete with taxonomy, behavioral, geographical and systemic information Well-illustrated and organized for easy reference