Introduction to A&P: how bioscience underpins patient care and health care skills

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What is anatomy?
The study of internal & external structures of plants & the human body.
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What is physiology?
Focuses on the function and vital process of the various structures making up the human body. This includes physiologic process includes muscle contraction, senses, how we breathe etc.
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What is homeostasis/homeodynamism?
Ability of body to maintain relatively stable internal conditions even in changes in outside world. It describes dynamic state of balance with internal condition varying but in relatively normal ranges
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Which factors are homeostatically controlled?
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What is physiology?

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Focuses on the function and vital process of the various structures making up the human body. This includes physiologic process includes muscle contraction, senses, how we breathe etc.

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What is homeostasis/homeodynamism?

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