Anatomy
... a historical type of English poetry called an
anatomy , or more precisely an amatory
anatomy . It is a love sonnet dedicated to describing ... the human muscles from the Encyclopdie .
anatomy (from the Greek anatome , from ana-temnein , ...
Biology
... scales, it is examined in physiology ,
anatomy , and histology . Developmental biology ... that gives rise to tissues , organs and
anatomy .
Model organisms for developmental biology ... of organisms
Main articles: Physiology ,
anatomy
Physiology studies the mechanical, physical, ...
Brain
... in specific, please see its article.
In the
anatomy of animals , the brain , or encephalon , is ...
2.3 Myths
3 Inside brains
3.1
anatomy
3.2 Function
4 History
5 External ... analyses of brains allow for the study of
anatomy and protein expression patterns but can only be ...
Eye
... human eye. Note that not all eyes have the same
anatomy as a human eye.
An eye is an organ that ...
2 Focusing
3 Convergence
4 Ocular
anatomy
5 Eye Related Problems
6 See also
... other so they converge on the object.
Ocular
anatomy
Aqueous humour
Anterior chamber
...
Kidney
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1 Basic
anatomy
1.1 Location
1.2 Structural details
... terminology
6 See also
Basic
anatomy
Location
In humans the kidneys are two ...
See also
Urology
Nephrology
Human
anatomy
...
Liver
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1
anatomy
1.1 Surface
anatomy
1.2 Functional
anatomy
1.3 Fetal blood supply
2 Physiology ...
Marcello Malpighi
... of comparative physiology and microscopic
anatomy .
Malpighi was born in Crevalcore (Cavalcuore ... Francesca Massari , younger sister of his
anatomy professor, the next year. She unfortunately died ... article appeared there in 1661 and was about
anatomy of a lung of a frog during which he had ...
Blood
...
1.1 Humans
1.2 Small invertebrates
1.3 Insects
2
anatomy of blood
3 Physiology of blood
3.1 Production and degradation ... blood moves nutrients to the tissues and removes waste products.
anatomy of blood
Blood is composed of several kinds of corpuscles; these formed ...
Human
... lifespan (see immortality ).
Physiology
Main articles: Human
anatomy , Human physical appearance , Human height
Biologically, humans are ... Ways" by Nicholas Wade, New York Times , August 19, 2003.
3-D Brain
anatomy , "The Secret Life of the Brain," Public Broadcasting Service, retrieved ...
Muscle
... body.
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1 Types
2
anatomy
3 Physiology
4 Nervous control
4.1 Efferent leg
4.2 ... IIx fibers can (for up to 3 minutes in highly trained athletes).
anatomy
Muscle is composed of muscle cells (sometimes known as "muscle ...
Nervous system
... and/or death.
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1
anatomy
2 Vertebrate nervous systems
3 Nervous system diversity
4 See also
anatomy
The nervous system consists basically of two types of cells :
...
Neuron
... .
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1 Classes
2
anatomy and histology
3 Connectivity
4 Types of signalling
5 ... Interneurons connect neurons within the central nervous system .
anatomy and histology
Many highly specialized types of neurons exist, and ...
Synapse
... "to clasp".
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anatomy
2 Signalling across chemical synapses
3 Synaptic strength
4 ...
5 Detailed properties and regulation
6 References
anatomy
At a prototypical synapse, such as a dendritic spine , a ...
Virus
... as tools for genetic engineering
4 Viral size, structure and,
anatomy
5 Viral replication
5.1 Steps associated with viral ... to human subjects is still nascent.
Viral size, structure and,
anatomy
Virus particles comprise a nucleic acid genome , that may be either ...
Zoology
...
The physiology of animals is studied under various fields including
anatomy and embryology
The common genetic and developmental mechanisms of ... plants
list of biologists
zootomy - the study of animal
anatomy or animal dissection
zoological distribution
palaeontology
...
Biomechanics
... behavior, often used for modeling elastin, and the famous Fung-elastic exponential model.
See also
Mechanics
orthosis
physiology
anatomy
Important publications in biomechanics
References
Fung, Y.C. "Biomechanics: Mechanical Properties of Living Tissue" (2nd ed.). New ...
Botany
... and ecosystems (as in ecology ). At each of these levels a botanist might be concerned with the classification ( taxonomy ), structure (
anatomy ), or function ( physiology ) of plant life.
Historically, botanists studied all organisms that were not generally regarded as animal . Some of ...
Cartilage
...
Chondroplasty
External links
University of Kansas Medical Center Cartilage tutorial
public domain text from Gray's
anatomy dated 1918, so probably needs updating
I've heard 'Ears and nose do not ever stop growing.' Is this true?
...
Charles Darwin
... Shrewsbury School . After finishing school, Darwin went to Edinburgh University in 1825 to study medicine.
At Edinburgh his disgust at the
anatomy lectures of professor Alexander Munro III and his revulsion at the brutality of surgery at the time led him to neglect his medical studies, but in ...
Developmental biology
... the genetic control of cell growth , differentiation and " morphogenesis ," which is the process that gives rise to tissues , organs and
anatomy .
Embryology is a subfield, the study of organisms between the one-cell stage (generally, the zygote ) and the end of the embryonic stage, which ...
Edward Jenner
... eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s .
For this pioneering work in vaccination Jenner is regarded as the Father of Immunization.
He studied
anatomy and surgery under the guidance of John Hunter , a prominent surgeon in London, then returned to Berkeley to start a practice.
Jenner's house in ...
Morphogenesis
... arises during the embryonic development of an organism and which give rise to the characteristic forms of tissues , organs and overall body
anatomy . In the human embryo, the change from a cluster of nearly identical cells at the blastula stage to a post- gastrulation embryo with structured ...
Ernst Haeckel
... biologist and philosopher who popularized Charles Darwin's work in Germany . Haeckel was a physician and later a professor of comparative
anatomy . He was one of the first to consider psychology as a branch of physiology . He also proposed many now ubiquitous terms including " phylum " and " ...
Hermaphrodite
... neither set is functional. In many cases, these manifestations are altered, sometimes only cosmetically, to resemble standard male or female
anatomy shortly after birth.
In plants
Hermaphrodite is used in botany to describe a flower that has both staminate (male, pollen-producing) ...
Herpetology
... is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of reptiles and amphibians , including their classification, ecology, behavior, physiology,
anatomy , and paleontology . The etymology of the term is the Greek word herpeton which means "to creep".
Herpetology deals with what are called the ...
Human Genome Project
... genome" and "Knowledge of the human genome is as necessary to the continuing progress of medicine and other health sciences as knowledge of human
anatomy has been for the present state of medicine". Though leaders had already been considering technologies required for such an undertaking at least as ...
Insulin
... whom are diabetic, is at best simply foolish, and can be, at worst, quickly fatal. Between these cases lies permanent brain damage.
See also
anatomy and physiolology
glucagon
pancreas
islets of Langerhans
endocrinology
forms of diabetes mellitus
diabetes mellitus
...
Joint
... This article is about a joint in zootomical
anatomy . For other meanings of the word "joint", see Joint (disambiguation) .
A joint is the location at which two bones make contact. ...
Lung
... The heart in relation to the lungs (from an older edition of Gray's
anatomy )
The lung is an organ belonging to the respiratory system and interfacing to the circulatory system of air-breathing vertebrates . Its ...
Malpighian corpuscle
...
These structures are named after Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), an Italian physician and biologist regarded as the father of microscopical
anatomy and histology .
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Marine biology
... volume) biome on planet earth and since they exist in a watery environment it means that very different biological functions have evolved .
Fish
anatomy includes two chamber heart , operculum , secretory cells that produce mucous , swim bladder , scales , fins , gills , lips and eyes .
Fish ...
Morphogenesis
... arises during the embryonic development of an organism and which give rise to the characteristic forms of tissues , organs and overall body
anatomy . In the human embryo, the change from a cluster of nearly identical cells at the blastula stage to a post- gastrulation embryo with structured ...
Species
... of anatomical differences, and on observations of whether different populations were able to interbreed successfully, to distinguish species; both
anatomy and breeding behavior are still important to assigning species status. As a result of the revolutionary (and still ongoing) advance in ...
Vacuole
... been studied. It is thought that its function is to supply and store phosphates in budding yeast cells.
References
Esau, K. 1965. Plant
anatomy , 2nd Edition. John Wiley & Sons. 767 pp.
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