Introduction to A&P: Crash Course Anatomy #1

Structure of the Body

1. chemical 2. cellular 3. tissues 4. organs 5. organ systems 6. body

It wasn't until _____ that it was allowed for certified Anatomists were allowed to perform tightly regulated human dissections.

18 and 17 hundreds.

Hank Green is eating a Club Sandwich and lodges a toothpick in his throat, forgetting to remove it from the sandwhich. His doctor takes and X-Ray and says he needs surgery and uses these terms to describe where the toothpick is to his doctor.

Along the medial line, posterior to the heart, anterior to the vertebrae, inferior to the collarbone, superior to the stomache.

Lateral

Anything away from the midline

Proximal

Closer to the center of the trunk.

Transverse or Horizontal Plane

Comes across horizontally, cutting body into top and bottom.

Sagittal or Median Plane

Comes down vertically, cutting body into Right and Left Side.

Coronal or Frontal Plane

Comes down vertically, cutting body into front and back.

Posterior or Dorsal

Everything in the back of the body.

Anterior or Ventral

Everything in the front of the body.

Distal

Farther from the center of the trunk.

Anatomy became so popular it caused ______ to become lucrative, if not legal occupation.

Grave robbing in Europe

Axial Parts

Head, trunk, and body.

Claudius Galen

Learned about the human form from performing vivisections on pigs.

Apendicular Parts

Limbs such as arms and legs.

Parasagittal Plane

Parallel to the Sagittal Plane but off to one side.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Poked around dead bodies while sketching detailed anatomical drawings.

In 1832 Britain passed the Anatomy Act, which

Provides students with corpses in the form of executed murderers.

In the 17 and 18 hundreds human dissections were even so popular that they were

Public events with admission fees

Physiology

The science of how body parts come together to function, and keep that body alive. What it does.

Definition of Anatomy

The study of the structure and relationships between body parts. What it is.

Inferior or Caudial

Towards the bottom.

Medial

Towards the center.

Superior or Cranial

Towards the top of the body.

Students still use educational cadavers to learn in-person and hands on with bodies

donated to science.

Homeostasis is

maintaining stable, internal conditions, no matter what changes are occurring outside the body.

Anatomical position

the body is erect and facing forward, with arms by the sides and pals facing forward.