Main description:

This package includes MasteringA&P(TM) For one-semester courses in human anatomy. Help students visualize human anatomy The #1 best-selling textbook for the human anatomy course, Human Anatomy, Eighth Edition is widely regarded as the most readable and visually accessible book on the market. The book's hallmark strengths - detailed art that teaches better, a student-friendly narrative, and easy-to-use media and assessment tools - are enhanced through assignable anatomy animations and tutorials in MasteringA&P, more prominent in-text media references, and updated Focus Figures. Within the text, photos reinforce real-world applications, and cadaver photos and micrographs appear side-by-side with art, working together to help students accurately visualize key anatomical structures. For the Eighth Edition, new, essential digital resources in MasteringA&P are more deeply integrated than ever throughout the text, making it easy for students to find helpful study tools. MasteringA&P's interactive tools include adaptive Dynamic Study Modules; helpful videos on bone identification, organ dissection, and cat dissections; new Clinical Scenarios; and PAL 3.0.
This package includes MasteringA&P, an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Instructors ensure students arrive ready to learn by assigning educationally effective content before class, and encourage critical thinking and retention with in-class resources such as Learning Catalytics. MasteringA&P should only be purchased when required by an instructor. Please be sure you have the correct ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.

Contents:

1. The Human Body: An Orientation

2. Cells: The Living Units

3. Basic Embryology

4. Tissues

5. The Integumentary System

6. Bones and Skeletal Tissues

7. Bones, Part 1: The Axial Skeleton

8. Bones, Part 2: The Appendicular Skeleton

9. Joints

10. Skeletal Muscle Tissue

11. Muscles of the Body

12. Fundamentals of the Nervous System and Nervous Tissue

13. The Central Nervous System

14. The Peripheral Nervous System

15. The Autonomic Nervous System and Visceral Sensory Neurons

16. The Special Senses

17. The Endocrine System

18. Blood

19. The Heart

20. Blood Vessels

21. The Lymphatic and Immune Systems

22. The Respiratory System

23. The Digestive System

24. The Urinary System

25. The Reproductive System

Appendix A. The Metric System

Appendix B. Answers to Check Your Understanding, Multiple Choice, and Matching Questions

Glossary

Photo and Illustration Credits

Index