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"From your dividing cells to your beating heart, this book takes a comprehensive look at the human body and reveals extraordinary enzymes, defunct body parts and super-powered lymphocytes along the way. In 12 illustrated chapters, Anatomy Bible makes sense of all the body's systems, explains medical terminology and explores questions."-- Provided by publisher.

 

Table of Contents

 

Introduction 8 (2)

Chapter 1 The Fundamentals

10 (14)

What's It All About?

12 (2)

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

14 (4)

Cadavers and Criminals

18 (2)

Nazi Atrocities

20 (2)

Talking Anatomese

22 (2)

Chapter 2 Bit By Bit

24 (30)

Organization of Your Body

26 (2)

Cell Structure

28 (4)

DNA: It's All About the Base(s)

32 (2)

Making Proteins

34 (2)

Coiling into Chromosomes

36 (2)

Dividing Cells

38 (2)

Cell Diversity

40 (2)

Stem Cells

42 (2)

The Tissue Quartet

44 (2)

Counting Our Organs

46 (2)

Balancing the Body

48 (2)

When Cells Die

50 (4)

Chapter 3 The Ultimate Packaging Material

54 (24)

The Integumentary System

56 (2)

Epidermis

58 (4)

Dermis

62 (6)

Hypodermis

68 (2)

Aren't You Hairy?

70 (6)

Nails

76 (2)

Chapter 4 Move Your Body

78 (32)

The Musculoskeletal System

80 (2)

The Axial Skeleton

82 (2)

What's in a Bone?

84 (2)

Cortical Vs Cancellous Bone

86 (2)

Bone Shapes

88 (2)

Cartilage

90 (2)

Bone Development

92 (2)

Joints and Ligaments

94 (2)

Skeletal Muscles

96 (2)

Muscle Architecture

98 (2)

Neuromuscular Junctions

100 (2)

Muscle Contraction and Relaxation

102 (2)

Muscle Training

104 (2)

The Ageing Musculoskeletal System

106 (4)

Chapter 5 A Blood Red Superhighway

110 (32)

The Cardiovascular System

112 (2)

Heart of the Matter

114 (4)

And the Beat Goes...Bumpty Bump

118 (4)

Transport Network

122 (6)

The Red Stuff

128 (4)

Red Blood Cells: Life and Times of an Oxygen Carrier

132 (4)

Under Pressure

136 (2)

Your Pulse

138 (2)

Too Much Exercise?

140 (2)

Chapter 6 The Security Force

142 (24)

The Lymphatic System

144 (2)

Two Immune Divisions

146 (2)

White Blood Cells

148 (4)

Activate the Lymphocytes!

152 (4)

Vessels and Organs

156 (2)

Splinter Response

158 (2)

The Place of Platelets

160 (2)

Hypersensitivity Reactions

162 (2)

Rebounding: Fad or Panacea?

164 (2)

Chapter 7 A Paramount Exchange

166 (18)

The Respiratory System

168 (2)

The Conduction Zone

170 (2)

The Respiratory Zone

172 (2)

Lovely Lungs

174 (2)

The Exchange Platform

176 (2)

In and Out

178 (2)

Blood Transport

180 (2)

Respiratory Antics

182 (2)

Chapter 8 The Hub

184 (38)

The Nervous System

186 (2)

Neuroglia

188 (2)

Neurons

190 (2)

Securing the Brain

192 (2)

The Cerebrum

194 (2)

The Hindbrain, Midbrain and Forebrain

196 (4)

Lobe Functions

200 (2)

You Looking at Me?

202 (2)

The Corpus Callosum

204 (2)

Subcortical Structures

206 (6)

The Spinal Cord

212 (2)

The 43

214 (2)

It's Automatic

216 (4)

Five Common Senses

220 (2)

Chapter 9 Just A Messenger

222 (16)

The Endocrine System

224 (2)

Chemical Revolutionaries

226 (2)

Know Your Glands

228 (6)

Sleepy Head

234 (2)

Getting Hot in Here

236 (2)

Chapter 10 Digesting It All

238 (18)

The Digestive System

240 (2)

In Your Mouth

242 (2)

Down the Pipe

244 (2)

Digestion Tag-Team

246 (2)

The Liver

248 (2)

Gallbladder and Bile Ducts

250 (2)

Absorption Time

252 (2)

End of the Line

254 (2)

Chapter 11 Your Waste Plumbing System

256 (12)

The Urinary System

258 (2)

The Two Kidneys

260 (2)

Nephrons

262 (2)

Accessory Organs

264 (2)

Pee

266 (2)

Chapter 12 Baby-Making Tools

268 (28)

The Reproductive System

270 (2)

The Big Change

272 (4)

A Gentleman's Anatomy

276 (4)

A Lady's Anatomy

280 (4)

The Menstrual Cycle

284 (2)

Boy Meets Girl

286 (2)

Zygote to Embryo

288 (2)

Growing Fetus

290 (2)

Changing Mother

292 (2)

Happy Birthing Day

294 (2)

Chapter 13 Looking Ahead

296 (16)

21st-Century Anatomy

298 (6)

Unsung Heroes

304 (4)

Variations in Anatomy

308 (4)

Index 312 (5)

Acknowledgements 317