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Clinical Anatomy For Dummies

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von: David Terfera, Shereen Jegtvig
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Verlag:	Wiley
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	09.03.2012
ISBN/EAN:	9781118230121
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	416

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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. <ul> <li>Plain-English explanations make difficult concepts easy to grasp</li> <li>Tracks to a typical college-level Clinical Anatomy course</li> <li>Features a 16-page color insert</li> </ul> Whether you're a student or a practicing healthcare worker, Clinical Anatomy for Dummies makes this subject accessible and easy to grasp.

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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 Starting in the mouth 58 Continuing through the esophagus and into the stomach 58 Finishing in the small intestine with help from the pancreas, gallbladder, and liver 59 Forming and removing bulk in the large intestine 59 Removing Wastes: The Urinary System 60 Handling Hormones: The Endocrine System 61 The master gland: The pituitary 61 The pituitary’s assistants: The hypothalamus and pineal glands 62 The body’s metabolism booster: The thyroid gland 62 Fighting infection: The thymus 63 Stressing out: The suprarenals 64 Digestive aid: The pancreas 64 Mars and Venus: The testes and the ovaries 65 Part II: Understanding the Thorax, Abdomen, and Pelvis 67 Chapter 7: Checking Out the Thoracic Cage and Coverings 69 Getting Under Your Skin: Thoracic Bones, Joints, Muscles, and More 69 Forming the thoracic cage: The bones 70 Moving just a little: The joints 72 Helping you breathe: The respiratory muscles 73 Running through the thorax: The nerves and blood vessels 76 Covering It All Up: The Surface Anatomy of the Thorax 78 Using imaginary lines in your assessment 78 Looking at the anterior chest wall 79 Examining the posterior chest wall 82 Chapter 8: Assessing the Thoracic Organs 85 Understanding the Mediastinum and Pleural Cavities 85 The mediastinum 85 The pleural cavities 86 Looking at the Lungs 87 Surveying the lungs’ surfaces and borders 88 Getting air in and out with the trachea 88 Branching into the bronchi 88 Checking out the lobes 89 Flowing with nerves, blood vessels, and lymphatics 90 Having a Heart 93 Surrounding the heart with the pericardium 93 Examining the surfaces of the heart 93 Putting together the four chambers 95 Feeding the heart: Arteries and veins 97 Giving the heart its spark 98 Exploring Thoracic Circulation 101 Circulating blood in the major vessels 101 Moving lymph through the lymphatic vessels 102 Discovering What Else is in the Thoracic Cavity 103 Chapter 9: Bellying Up to the Abdominal Wall 105 Drawing Quadrants and Regions on the Abdominal Wall 105 Using two lines: The four quadrants 106 Using four lines: The nine regions 106 Making Up the Abdominal Wall: Muscles and More 107 Absolutely fabulous abdominal muscles 107 Nerves, blood vessels, and lymphatics for maintaining tissues 108 Lining the abdomen: The peritoneum 112 Inspecting the Inguinal Region 112 The inguinal ligament and the iliopubic tract 112 The inguinal canal 113 The spermatic cord 114 The testes 114 The scrotum 115 Seeing the Skin and Surface Anatomy of the Abdominal Wall 116 Chapter 10: Probing the Abdominal Organs 119 Poking Around the Peritoneum 119 The mesentery and the peritoneal folds and ligaments 120 The greater and lesser omentums 120 Digging into the Main Digestive Organs 121 Entering the esophagus 121 Churning in the stomach 122 Winding through the small intestine 124 Moving into the large intestine 126 Observing Organs that Assist with Digestion 128 Locating the liver 128 Glancing at the gallbladder 132 Pinpointing the pancreas 132 Identifying Renal Anatomy 133 Knowing the kidneys 134 Tracing the ureters 135 Spying the suprarenal glands 135 Figuring Out What Else is in the Abdominal Cavity 136 The spleen 136 Nerves 137 Major abdominal blood vessels 139 Lymphatics 142 Chapter 11: Seeing the Pelvis and the Perineum 145 Pinpointing the Pelvic Structures 145 Forming the pelvic girdle: Bones and joints 146 Making note of muscles and fascia 148 Personal space: The peritoneum 149 Feeling out the nerves of the pelvis 150 Viewing blood vessels 152 Looking at lymphatics 154 Comparing Pelvic Organs 155 Locating pelvic organs that everyone has 155 Finding Mars: The male pelvic organs 157 Finding Venus: The female pelvic organs 159 Exit Strategy: The Perineum 162 The male perineum 164 The female perineum 164 Part III: Looking at the Head, Neck, and Back 167 Chapter 12: Head of the Class 169 Sticking to the Skull Bones 169 Cradling the brain in the cranial cavity 170 Facing forward with the facial bones 172 Encasing the Brain: The Meninges 173 The dural infoldings 173 The dural venous sinuses 174 Locating the Areas and Structures of the Brain 175 Thinking about the cerebrum 177 Going inside the diencephalon 177 Balancing the cerebellum 177 Surveying the brainstem 178 Draining the brain with the ventricles 178 Getting the glands 178 Counting the cranial nerves 179 Serving the brain: The blood supply 182 Putting on a Face 183 Expressing yourself with facial muscles 183 Moving with motor nerves 185 Feeling out sensory nerves 185 Viewing blood vessels 187 Getting a handle on lymphatics 190 Enveloping the Head: Facial Surface Anatomy and the Scalp 190 Chapter 13: Seeing, Smelling, Tasting, and Hearing 193 Seeing into the Eyes 193 Taking cover with eyelids 194 Having a ball — an eyeball, that is 195 Rolling your eyes with extraocular muscles 197 Serving the eyes: The nerves 199 Providing blood flow to and from the eyes 200 Knowing the Nose 201 Sniffing out the exterior of the nose 201 Scoping out the nasal cavity 201 Insinuating your way into the paranasal sinuses 203 Sensing the nerves, blood vessels, and lymphatics 204 Investigating the Mouth 204 Open wide: The oral cavity 204 Chew on this: The teeth and gums 205 Picking on the palate 205 Sticking out your tongue 207 Making spit in the salivary glands 209 Tapping into the temporomandibular joint 209 Noting nerves 211 Viewing blood vessels 212 Sorting through lymphatics 212 Entering the Ear 213 Examining the external ear 213 Moving into the middle ear 214 Diving deeper into the inner ear 216 Keeping an ear out for nerves and vessels 217 Chapter 14: It’s Neck and Neck 219 Sizing Up the Superficial Structures: Muscles, Nerves, and Blood Vessels 219 Dividing the triangles: The sternocleidomastoid 220 Going back to the posterior triangle of the neck 221 Understanding the anterior triangle of the neck 223 Neck Deep: Diving into the Deep Structures 226 Flexing the neck: The prevertebral muscles 226 Rooting around the root of the neck 228 Homing In on the Neck Organs 230 Front and center: Thyroid and parathyroid glands 230 Speaking of the pharynx, larynx, and trachea 231 Locating lymphatic vessels and nodes 236 Surrounding the Neck: Skin and Surface Anatomy 237 Chapter 15: Back to Back 239 Stacking Up the Vertebral Column 239 Analyzing a typical vertebra 240 Putting the vertebrae into groups 241 Connecting with the vertebral joints 244 Studying the Spinal Cord and Meninges 246 Spying on the spinal cord and nerves 246 Coverings and cushions: Understanding the meninges and cerebrospinal fluid 247 Flexing Your Back Muscles 249 Shouldering the load: The extrinsic muscles 249 Twisting and turning: The intrinsic muscles 249 Nodding your head: The suboccipital muscles 252 Providing Blood Flow and Lymphatic Drainage in the Back 254 Assessing the Surface Anatomy of the Vertebrae and Back Muscles 254 Looking for curves in the spine 255 Seeing bones on the back’s surface 255 Viewing the back muscles 256 Part IV: Moving to the Upper and Lower Extremities 257 Chapter 16: Shouldering the Load: The Pectoral Girdle and the Arm 259 Boning Up on the Shoulder and the Arm 259 Looking at the bones of the pectoral girdle 260 It’s not funny, but it’s humerus 261 Joining the Parts 262 Collaring the sternoclavicular joint 262 Reviewing the acromioclavicular joint 262 Hanging on to the humerus 263 Sniffing around the Axilla (Armpit) 264 Forming the apex, the base, and the walls 264 Tracking the axillary artery and vein 265 Moving the Shoulder and the Arm 265 Taking a look at the anterior muscles 265 Moving to the posterior muscles 267 Shaping up the shoulder muscles 267 Maintaining the Tissues 269 Acknowledging the nerves and blood supply 269 Remembering the lymphatic vessels 273 Covering Your Shoulders and Arms: The Surface Anatomy 274 Chapter 17: Bending the Elbow and Focusing on the Forearm 277 Forming the Elbow and the Forearm: The Bones 277 Handling the humerus 277 Regarding the radius 278 Understanding the ulna 278 Joining the Elbow and the Forearm 279 Bending the elbow 279 Reviewing the radioulnar joints 279 Making the Elbow and Forearm Move: The Muscles 280 The muscles of the arm 280 The muscles of the forearm 282 Giving a Nod to the Nerves and Blood Supply 282 Nerves 284 Blood supply 284 Looking Only Skin Deep: The Surface Anatomy 285 Chapter 18: Shaking Hands and Grabbing the Wrist 287 Putting Your Hands (and Wrists) Together 287 Starting with the carpal bones 288 Moving to the metacarpal bones 289 Finding the phalanges 290 Waving and Wiggling with the Help of Joints 290 Looking at the wrist joints 290 Handing over the hand joints 291 Pointing to the finger joints 291 Making the Most of Wrist and Hand Muscles 292 Flexing and extending the wrist 292 Sticking out your thumb with the thenar muscles 296 Honing in on the hypothenar muscles 296 Investigating the interosseous muscles and the lumbricals 297 Knowing the Nerves and Blood Supply of the Wrist and Hand 297 Getting a feeling for the nerves 298 Uncovering the arteries and veins 299 Fitting Like a Glove: The Surface Anatomy of the Wrist and Hand 300 Chapter 19: Getting Hip to the Hip and the Thigh 303 Honing In on Hip and Thigh Bones 303 Understanding the Hip and Thigh Joints 306 Seeking the sacroiliac joint 306 Surveying the symphysis pubis 307 Looking at the acetabulofemoral joint 307 Swaying Your Hips and Moving Your Thighs with the Help of Muscles 308 Minding the muscles of the buttocks 308 Turning with the thigh muscles 310 Maintaining the Hip and Thigh Tissues 312 Knowing the nerves 313 Flowing through the arteries and veins 315 Looking at the lymphatics 316 Summing Up the Surface Landmarks 317 Chapter 20: Knowing the Knee and the Leg 319 Logging the Knee and Leg Bones 319 Knocking the Knee Joint 322 Coming up with cartilage and the joint capsule 322 Balancing the menisci 322 Hanging on with the ligaments 324 Bumping up against the bursae 325 Kneeling on the patellofemoral joint 326 Supervising the superior tibiofibular joint 326 Mastering the Muscles that Affect the Knee and Leg 326 Starting with thigh muscles that work with the knee 327 Aiming at the anterior compartment 327 Looking at the lateral compartment 328 Pondering the posterior compartment 328 Noticing the Nerves, Blood Vessels, and Lymphatics of the Knee and Leg 329 Noting the nerves 329 Analyzing the arteries and veins 331 Listing the lymph nodes 332 Summing Up the Surface Landmarks 332 Chapter 21: Finding the Ankle and the Foot 335 Looking at the Framework of the Ankle and Foot 335 Aiming for the ankle bones 336 Assessing the architecture of the foot bones 336 Taking In the Ankle and Foot Joints 337 Moving up and down: The ankle joint 337 Supporting your weight: The foot and toe joints 338 Bending Your Ankle and Curling Your Toes: The Muscles 341 Turning to leg muscles that move the ankle and the foot 341 Minding the muscles of the foot 343 Getting Maintenance with Nerves, Blood Vessels, and Lymphatics 344 Naming the nerves 345 Looking at blood vessels and lymphatics 346 Summing Up the Surface Landmarks of the Ankle and the Foot 347 Part V: The Part of Tens 349 Chapter 22: Ten Helpful Clinical Anatomy Mnemonics 351 Thinking about the Cranial Bones 351 Focusing on the Facial Bones 352 Memorizing the Cranial Nerves 352 Summing Up the Heart-Valve Sequence 353 Ordering the Abdominal Muscles 353 Tracking the Intestinal Tract 354 Remembering the Rotator Cuff Muscles 354 Concentrating on the Carpal Bones 354 Looking at the Lateral Rotator Muscles of the Hip 355 Taming the Tarsal Bones 355 Chapter 23: Ten Ways to Look into the Body without Cutting It Open 357 Conventional Radiography 357 Computerized Tomography 358 Magnetic Resonance Imaging 358 Positron Emission Tomography 358 Fluoroscopy 359 Mammography 359 Ultrasonography 359 Opthalmoscopy 360 Upper Endoscopy 360 Colonoscopy 360 Index 361

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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.

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Learn to: <ul> <li>Use common clinical anatomy terms</li> <li>Recognize bones, muscles, nerves, and other structures of the body</li> <li>Score your highest in a clinical anatomy course</li> </ul> Your ticket to acing a clinical anatomy course Need help with your college-level clinical anatomy course? This book presents a friendly, unintimidating overview of the material you're studying, including clinical anatomy terms, the systems of the body, and various structures of the thorax, abdomen, pelvis, head, neck, back, and limbs. Clear definitions, concise explanations, and plenty of illustrations will help you make the grade! <ul> <li>Clinical Anatomy 101 — get the skinny on how clinical anatomy compares to other types of anatomical study and make sense of the vocabulary used in clinical anatomy</li> <li>All systems go — discover how to organize the body into different systems, including the musculoskeletal, nervous, cardiovascular, and digestive systems</li> <li>Get under your skin — find out everything you need to know about the three regions that comprise the trunk — the thorax, the abdomen, and the pelvis</li> <li>Get a "head" of the class — understand the ins and outs of what"s going on in your head, neck, and back</li> <li>Go to extremes — understand the structures and movements of the upper and lower extremities</li> </ul> Open the book and find: <ul> <li>Plain-English explanations of terms used in clinical anatomy</li> <li>The makeup of various systems of the body</li> <li>Details about the thorax, the abdomen, and the pelvis</li> <li>Structures in the head, the neck, and the back</li> <li>Parts of the upper and lower limbs</li> <li>Ten useful clinical anatomy mnemonics</li> <li>16 pages of full-color illustrations</li> </ul>