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What is anatomy?
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The study of structure
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What is physiology?
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The study of function at many levels
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What is gross or macroscopic anatomy?
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The study of large body parts, visible to the naked eye
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What is regional anatomy?
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The study of all the structures in a particular region of the body.
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What is systemic anatomy?
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The study of body systems such as the cardiovascular system
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What are the 3 different subdivisions of gross or macroscopic anatomy?
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Regional, systemic, and surface anatomy
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What is surface anatomy?
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The study of internal structures as they relate to the overlying skin surface
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What are 2 subdivisions of study for microscopic anatomy?
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Cytology (cells) and histology (tissues)
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What can be studied within developemental anatomy?
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Embryology (changes occuring before birth)
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What are some subdivisions of physiology?
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Renal physiology (operation of kidney), neurophysiology, and cardiovascular physiology
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What is the prinicple of complementarity?
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Anatomy and physiology are inseparable, the function always refects structure and what a structure can do depends on its specific form.
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In what way does physiology depend of anatomy?
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The operation or function of a structure is dictated by its anatomy
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Would you be studying anatomy or physiology if you investigated how muscles shorten? if you explored the location of the lungs in the body?
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Muscle shortening is a topic of physiology. the body location of the lungs is an anatomy topic.
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What are the levels of stuctural organization ?
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Chemical, cellular, tissue, organ, organ system and organismal level
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What does the digestive system do?
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Takes in nutrients, breaks them down, and eliminates unabsorbed matter (feces)
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