Anatomy and Physiology chapter 1

dissection

carefully cutting and separating tissues to reveal their relationships

inspection

simply looking at the body's appearance as in performing a physical examination or making a clinical diagnosis from the surface appearance

radiology

the branch of medicine with imaging

percussion

the examiner taps on the body, feels for abnormal resistance. and listens to the emitted sound for signs of abnormalities such as pockets of fluid air

histopathology

the microscopic examination of tissues for signs of disease

cadaver

a dead human body

palpation

feeling a structure with the hands

ultrastructure

fine detail, down to the molecular level, revealed by the electron microscope

What is anatomy and what is physiology?

anatomy is the study of structure and physiology is the study of function

auscultation

listening to the natural sounds made by the body

medical imaging techniques

methods of viewing the inside of the body without surgery

exploratory surgery

opening the body and taking a look inside to see what was wrong and what could be done about it

gross anatomy

structures that can be seen with the naked eye

comparative anatomy

the study of multiple species in order to examine similarities and differences and analyze evolutionary trends

cytology

the study of the structure and function of individual cells

Physiology thus lends meaning to anatomy; and conversely anatomy is what makes physiology possible

unity of form and function