Clinical Anatomy For Dummies
Your ticket to acing a clinical anatomy courseNeed 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!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 anatomyAll systems go — discover how to organize the body into different systems, including the musculoskeletal, nervous, cardiovascular, and digestive systemsGet under your skin — find out everything you need to know about the three regions that comprise the trunk — the thorax, the abdomen, and the pelvisGet a "head" of the class — understand the ins and outs of what's going on in your head, neck, and backGo to extremes — understand the structures and movements of the upper and lower extremitiesOpen the book and find:Plain-English explanations of terms used in clinical anatomyThe makeup of various systems of the bodyDetails about the thorax, the abdomen, and the pelvisStructures in the head, the neck, and the backParts of the upper and lower limbsTen useful clinical anatomy mnemonics16 pages of full-color illustrationsLearn to:Use common clinical anatomy termsRecognize bones, muscles, nerves, and other structures of the bodyScore your highest in a clinical anatomy course