Human Anatomy Series

I have fin­ished my quest of cre­at­ing arti­cles on every­thing I have learned from my first Human Anatomy class.  There are now 50 links below that strate­gi­cally tie the con­tent like a table of con­tents.  The order this is pre­sented in it the way I was taught, and it makes a lot of sense that way.

Anatomy ver­sus Phys­i­ol­ogy, What’s the Difference?

Here’s an anal­ogy that might help:  Instead of the human body, imag­ine you were going to learn how a car works.  First you would be taught what all the parts are called, what they look like and where they go.  That’s Anatomy.  After you have been acquainted with what every­thing looks like, then you could learn what they do and how they func­tion all together with the other parts.  That’s Phys­i­ol­ogy.

The Basics.  Start here.  This is your Foundation.

• Intro to human anatomy
• The build­ing blocks of cells

Epithe­lial and Con­nec­tive Tissue

• Basics of Epithe­lial Tissue
• Eight types of Epithe­lial Tissue
• Detailed Fea­tures of Epithelia
• Con­nec­tive Tis­sue Basics
• Three Types of Membrane

Skin, Hair, Nails, Sweat Glands

• Integu­men­tary Sys­tem Part 1
• Integu­men­tary Sys­tem Part 2

The Skele­tal System

• Car­ti­lage and Bones
• Geog­ra­phy of the Skull
• Spe­cial parts of the skull
• The Ver­te­bral Column
• Tho­racic Cage, Ribs, Fontanelles

The Mus­cu­lar System

• Mus­cles of the Head
• Mus­cles of the Neck and Ver­te­bral Column
• Mus­cles of the tho­rax for breath­ing and the pelvic floor (The Diaphragm)
• Mus­cles of the Abdom­i­nal Wall
• Mus­cles of the Forearm

The Cen­tral Ner­vous Sys­tem (the brain)

• Fun­da­men­tals of the Ner­vous Sys­tem and Ner­vous Tissue
• CNS: Intro to Brain and Ven­tri­cles, Medulla Oblon­gata, Pons, Mid-Brain and Cerebellum
• Cen­tral Ner­vous Sys­tem: Spinal Cord
• The Dien­cephalon
• The Cere­bral Hemispheres
• Func­tional Areas of The Cere­bral Cortex
• Cere­bral White Mat­ter and Gray Mat­ter and Basal Ganglia
• The Lim­bic Sys­tem and the Retic­u­lar Formation
• Pro­tec­tion for the Brain: Meninges, CSF, Blood-Brain Barrier
• Dis­or­ders of the Cen­tral Ner­vous System

The Periph­eral Ner­vous System

• Periph­eral Ner­vous Sys­tem: Cra­nial Nerves
• Periph­eral Ner­vous Sys­tem: Spinal Nerves and Plexuses
• Inner­va­tion of the skin: Dermatomes

The Auto­nomic Ner­vous System

• The Auto­nomic Ner­vous Sys­tem (Includes sym­pa­thetic and parasym­pha­thetic systems)
• Vis­ceral Sen­sory Neu­rons and Referred Pain

Spe­cial Senses

• Chem­i­cal Sense: Taste (Gustation)
• Chem­i­cal Sense: Smell (Olfaction)
• The Eye and Vision

 The Car­dio­vas­cu­lar System

• Intro to the Heart
• Blood Flow of the Heart (Cir­cu­la­tion Flow)
• Myocardium
• Con­duct­ing Sys­tem of the Heart (Ner­vous Impulse Flow)
• The Four Cor­ners of the Heart
• Lay­ers of the Peri­cardium, Heart Wall and Spi­ral Arrangement
• Func­tion of the Atri­oven­tric­u­lar and Semi­lu­nar Valves
• Blood Com­po­nents, Hemo­glo­bin, Type/Rh Fac­tor, Agglutination
• Blood Ves­sels

Spe­cial­ized Systems

• The Endocrine Sys­tem (Pitu­itary, Thy­roid, Pan­creas, Adrenal, Gonads, etc)
• The Lym­phatic Sys­tem (Spleen, Thy­mus, Lym­phatic ves­sels, nodes etc)
• The Res­pi­ra­tory Sys­tem (Lungs, Alve­oli, Bronchi, Tra­chea, Lar­ynx, Nasal cav­i­ties, etc)
• The Immune System
• The Uri­nary Sys­tem: Kidneys
• The Uri­nary Sys­tem: Ureter and Uri­nary Bladder

What sys­tems are missing?

The bones and blood ves­sels are incom­plete, and it’s miss­ing the joints, the diges­tive sys­tem (e.g. stom­ach, intes­tine, liver, gall­blad­der, pan­creas), the ear and male/female repro­duc­tive system.

If I get around to fill­ing these in, I will add them to this list, but as of right now, I’m mak­ing sure the ones I have already are in tip-top shape. Be sure to share this page with your fel­low anatomy class peers!  Let me know if you would like me to con­tinue the series so I know you exist.