David Terfera, PhD, teaches biomedical sciences at the University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine. Shereen Jegtvig, DC, MS, is a health and nutrition writer.

Introduction 1

About This Book 1

Conventions Used in This Book 1

What You're Not to Read 2

Foolish Assumptions 2

How This Book is Organized 2

Part I: Beginning with Clinical Anatomy Basics 3

Part II: Understanding the Thorax, Abdomen, and Pelvis 3

Part III: Looking at the Head, Neck, and Back 3

Part IV: Moving to the Upper and Lower Extremities 3

Part V: The Part of Tens 3

Icons Used in This Book 4

Where to Go from Here 4

Part I: Beginning with Clinical Anatomy Basics 5

Chapter 1: Entering the World of Clinical Anatomy 7

Studying the Body in Different Ways 7

Looking under the microscope or with your eyes 7

Speaking clinically: Terms used in clinical anatomy 8

Dividing the Body into Systems and Regions 8

Organizing the body by systems 9

Organizing the body by regions 10

Chapter 2: Getting a Grip on Terms Used in Clinical Anatomy 13

Describing Anatomy by Position, Region, and Plane 13

Beginning with the anatomical position 14

Figuring out what goes where in anatomical regions 14

Knowing what's up, down, back, and front in specific terms 16

Slicing the body into anatomical planes 17

Labeling Anatomical Movement 19

Bending and straightening 19

Going away and getting closer 19

Moving in circles 20

Surveying other ways to move 20

Chapter 3: Examining the Integumentary, Musculoskeletal, and Nervous Systems 23

Showing Interest in Integument 23

Looking at the layers and structures of the skin 24

Going in farther to the fascia 26

Boning Up on the Skeleton 26

Figuring out what makes a bone 26

Surveying the shapes of bones 27

Feeling out bumps, ridges, and indentations 28

Catching Up to Cartilage 29

Joining the Joints 29

Making the Body Move with Muscles 31

Moving the bones with skeletal muscle 31

Keeping the heart ticking with cardiac muscle 33

Having no control over smooth muscle 34

Getting on Your Nerves 34

Determining what's in (and on) a neuron 35

Coordinating input and signals with the central nervous system 36

Touching and moving with the peripheral nervous system 36

Feeling and reacting with the somatic nervous system 37

Taking control with the autonomic nervous system 37

Chapter 4: Moving Along with the Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems 39

Tracing Circulatory Pathways in the Cardiovascular System 39

Making the rounds: Systemic circulation 40

Fueling up: Pulmonary circulation 41

Moving Blood Away from the Heart with Arteries 43

Looking inside large elastic arteries 44

Moving to medium muscular arteries 44

Surveying small arteries and arterioles 44

Taking Blood Back to the Heart with Capillaries and Veins 45

Exchanging gases, nutrients, and wastes in capillaries 45

Peeking into veins and venules 46

Breathing In and Out: The Respiratory System 47

Chapter 5: Looking at the Immune and Lymphatic Systems 49

Beginning with Red Bone Marrow and Leukocytes 49

Fighting infection with lymphocytes 50

Binging on bacteria with phagocytes 50

Controlling histamines with basophils 51

Surveying the Lymphatic System 51

Networking with lymphatic capillaries and vessels 51

Filtering lymph through nodes 52

Collecting lymph in ducts 53

Assessing Additional Lymphoid Organs 54

The thymus 54

The spleen 55

The tonsils, the appendix, and the gut 55

Chapter 6: Delving into the Digestive, Urinary, and Endocrine Systems 57

Breaking Down and Absorbing Your Food: The Digestive System 57

Starting in the mouth 58

Continuing through the esophagus and into the stomach 58

Finishing in the small intestine with help from the pancreas, gallbladder, and liver 59

Forming and removing bulk in the large intestine 59

Removing Wastes: The Urinary System 60

Handling Hormones: The Endocrine System 61

The master gland: The pituitary 61

The pituitary's assistants: The hypothalamus and pineal glands 62

The body's metabolism booster: The thyroid gland 62

Fighting infection: The thymus 63

Stressing out: The suprarenals 64

Digestive aid: The pancreas 64

Mars and Venus: The testes and the ovaries 65

Part II: Understanding the Thorax, Abdomen, and Pelvis 67

Chapter 7: Checking Out the Thoracic Cage and Coverings 69

Getting Under Your Skin: Thoracic Bones, Joints, Muscles, and More 69

Forming the thoracic cage: The bones 70

Moving just a little: The joints 72

Helping you breathe: The respiratory muscles 73

Running through the thorax: The nerves and blood vessels 76

Covering It All Up: The Surface Anatomy of the Thorax 78

Using imaginary lines in your assessment 78

Looking at the anterior chest wall 79

Examining the posterior chest wall 82

Chapter 8: Assessing the Thoracic Organs 85

Understanding the Mediastinum and Pleural Cavities 85

The mediastinum 85

The pleural cavities 86

Looking at the Lungs 87

Surveying the lungs' surfaces and borders 88

Getting air in and out with the trachea 88

Branching into the bronchi 88

Checking out the lobes 89

Flowing with nerves, blood vessels, and lymphatics 90

Having a Heart 93

Surrounding the heart with the pericardium 93

Examining the surfaces of the heart 93

Putting together the four chambers 95

Feeding the heart: Arteries and veins 97

Giving the heart its spark 98

Exploring Thoracic Circulation 101

Circulating blood in the major vessels 101

Moving lymph through the lymphatic vessels 102

Discovering What Else is in the Thoracic Cavity 103

Chapter 9: Bellying Up to the Abdominal Wall 105

Drawing Quadrants and Regions on the Abdominal Wall 105

Using two lines: The four quadrants 106

Using four lines: The nine regions 106

Making Up the Abdominal Wall: Muscles and More 107

Absolutely fabulous abdominal muscles 107

Nerves, blood vessels, and lymphatics for maintaining tissues 108

Lining the abdomen: The peritoneum 112

Inspecting the Inguinal Region 112

The inguinal ligament and the iliopubic tract 112

The inguinal canal 113

The spermatic cord 114

The testes 114

The scrotum 115

Seeing the Skin and Surface Anatomy of the Abdominal Wall 116

Chapter 10: Probing the Abdominal Organs 119

Poking Around the Peritoneum 119

The mesentery and the peritoneal folds and ligaments 120

The greater and lesser omentums 120

Digging into the Main Digestive Organs 121

Entering the esophagus 121

Churning in the stomach 122

Winding through the small intestine 124

Moving into the large intestine 126

Observing Organs that Assist with Digestion 128

Locating the liver 128

Glancing at the gallbladder 132

Pinpointing the pancreas 132

Identifying Renal Anatomy 133

Knowing the kidneys 134

Tracing the ureters 135

Spying the suprarenal glands 135

Figuring Out What Else is in the Abdominal Cavity 136

The spleen 136

Nerves 137

Major abdominal blood vessels 139

Lymphatics 142

Chapter 11: Seeing the Pelvis and the Perineum 145

Pinpointing the Pelvic Structures 145

Forming the pelvic girdle: Bones and joints 146

Making note of muscles and fascia 148

Personal space: The peritoneum 149

Feeling out the nerves of the pelvis 150

Viewing blood vessels 152

Looking at lymphatics 154

Comparing Pelvic Organs 155

Locating pelvic organs that everyone has 155

Finding Mars: The male pelvic organs 157

Finding Venus: The female pelvic organs 159

Exit Strategy: The Perineum 162

The male perineum 164

The female perineum 164

Part III: Looking at the Head, Neck, and Back 167

Chapter 12: Head of the Class 169

Sticking to the Skull Bones 169

Cradling the brain in the cranial cavity 170

Facing forward with the facial bones 172

Encasing the Brain: The Meninges 173

The dural infoldings 173

The dural venous sinuses 174

Locating the Areas and Structures of the Brain 175

Thinking about the cerebrum 177

Going inside the diencephalon 177

Balancing the cerebellum 177

Surveying the brainstem 178

Draining the brain with the ventricles 178

Getting the glands 178

Counting the cranial nerves 179

Serving the brain: The blood supply 182

Putting on a Face 183

Expressing yourself with facial muscles 183

Moving with motor nerves 185

Feeling out sensory nerves 185

Viewing blood vessels 187

Getting a handle on lymphatics 190

Enveloping the Head: Facial Surface Anatomy and the Scalp 190

Chapter 13: Seeing, Smelling, Tasting, and Hearing 193

Seeing into the Eyes 193

Taking cover with eyelids 194

Having a ball - an eyeball, that is 195

Rolling your eyes with extraocular muscles 197

Serving the eyes: The nerves 199

Providing blood flow to and from the eyes 200

Knowing the Nose 201

Sniffing out the exterior of the nose 201

Scoping out the nasal cavity 201

Insinuating your way into the paranasal sinuses 203

Sensing the nerves, blood vessels, and...