Human Anatomy & Physiology continues the authors’ tradition of innovation, with a focus on effective ways to help students learn.

Suitable for learners at every level - Applications throughout the text aim to help students at every level understand the content.
Practical scenarios - Challenges students to apply their knowledge to realistic clinical scenarios.
Career-focused - Offers a range of activities that connect the content to everyday work as a health professional.

Features

Unique Chapter Roadmaps provide a visual overview of the key concepts in the chapter and show how they relate to each other. Each key concept ‘brick’ in the roadmap corresponds to a numbered section within the chapter, beginning with a declarative statement that helps learners quickly grasp the big idea of the topic discussion.
Key Concept Modular Organisation helps students master the core material, easily navigate the chapter, and maintain their focus. This clear and succinct presentation delivers core concepts in manageable chunks that are easier for students to manage and reference.
Text recall icons guide students to review specific pages where a concept was first introduced.
Making Connections questions appear in every chapter (except Chapter 1), and challenge students to relate different concepts across body systems and chapters Blue text annotations appear in selected figures and represent the voice of an A&P instructor, highlighting important points to remember. In some figures the text is broken into numbered steps to help students more easily understand processes one step at a time.
Consistent visual presentation is applied throughout the text so that at least one figure, image, or table is included in every two-page spread.

New to this edition Guide students to focus on ‘big picture’ concepts before exploring details

New Text recall icons guide students to review specific pages where a concept was first introduced.
A greater number of Making Connections questions appear in every chapter (except Chapter 1), and challenge students to relate different concepts across body systems and chapters.

Engage students in building visual literacy skills and interpreting visual information

6 New Focus Figures (for a total of 26) Focus Figures walk students through complex processes using exceptionally clear, easy tofollow illustrations with integrated text explanations. Focus Figure Coaching Activities can be assigned through Mastering A&P as figure walkthrough videos with assessments and/or as multi-part coaching activities. New Focus Figures can be assigned with new ‘mini animation’ coaching activities in Mastering A&P and include:

Fig 3.1 The Plasma Membrane
Fig 11.4 Postsynaptic Potentials and Their Summation
Fig 16.2 Stress and the Adrenal Gland
Fig 18.2 The Cardiac Cycle
Fig 21.1 An Example of a Primary Immune Response
Fig 28.2 Fetal and newborn Circulation

More than 30 In-Line Figures are strategically placed within the text to visually reinforce the text discussion. This innovation is the latest example of how the authors carefully integrate art and text, almost always presenting words and visuals on the same two-page spread so that readers can efficiently learn, visualise and remember concepts

Support learners at every level, from novice to expert

13 additional Summary Tables present key information and serve as ‘one-stop shopping’ student tools.
Check Your Understanding sections in each chapter now include a greater variety and range of question types, including higher-level questions labeled Apply, Predict, What If?, Draw, and Make Connections questions. Dozens of new visual questions ask students to label structures or interpret visual information.

‘Draw’ questions ask students to create visuals that reinforce important concepts by drawing a structure, annotating a figure, or creating a summary table. Students can check their work using the expanded answer key at the back of the text.
47 Check Your Understanding questions include an illustration as part of the question and require students to practice visual literacy skills.

NEW! All End-of-Chapter Review questions reinforce the main ideas of the chapter and are now organised into three levels of difficulty based on Bloom’s Taxonomy categories:

Level 1: Remember/Understand
Level 2: Apply/Analyse
Level 3: Evaluate/Synthesise

Motivate and prepare students for careers in health care that require real-world problem solving

Updated Career Connection videos feature real health care professionals and include assignable questions that ask learners to apply chapter content to examples from their everyday work as a nurse or - as a physical therapist. Referenced at the beginning of each chapter with a ‘preview’ image, students can view the videos through Mastering A&P.
Updated Clinical Case Studies with new NCLEX-Style questions challenge students to apply knowledge to realistic clinical scenarios and appear at the end of chapters 5-29.
NCLEX-Style questions have been added to each Clinical Case Study and give students practice answering the kinds of challenging questions that they will eventually encounter on a licensing exam. Students can practice answering these questions on their own.

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