AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE, ANATOMY FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE, ANATOMY FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 1) What is anatomy and physiology and the different ways to study A&P? *Anatomy structure and location of the body; Physiology function of the organ.  *inspection—simply looking at the body’s appearance, as in performing a physical examination or making a clinical diagnosis from surface appearance.  *Physical examinations also involve touching and listening to the body. * Palpation1 means feeling a structure with the hands, such as palpating a swollen lymph node or taking a pulse.  *Auscultation is listening to the natural sounds made by the body, such as heart and lung sounds.  *Percussion, the examiner taps on the body, feels for abnormal resistance, and listens to the emitted sound for signs of abnormalities such as pockets of fluid or air.  *dissection the careful cutting and separation of tissues to reveal their relationships. *comparative anatomy—the study of more than one species in order to examine structural similarities and differences and analyze evolutionary trends.