Celebrated for its precise and flawless illustrations, time-saving navigation and study tools, and engaging clinical content, Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology is crafted especially for students with no prior knowledge of anatomy & physiology and little science background. The Sixth Edition is the most readable, visually effective, and career-motivating edition to date. New Spotlight figures integrate brief text and visuals for easy reading. New Career Paths, based on interviews with people working in key healthcare occupations, bring students in on the everyday work world of healthcare practitioners with a goal toward informing and motivating them about their own future healthcare careers. This book is geared toward students enrolled in a one-semester A&P course and comes with access to MasteringA&P^®.

Package Components:

• Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology, Sixth Edition
• Essentials of Interactive Physiology^® CD-ROM
• MasteringA&P^® with Pearson eText Valuepack Access Code Card

Features

Award-winning art and photo program:

• Side-by-Side Figures provide students with multiple views of the same structure, typically pairing an artist's drawing with a cadaver photograph. This approach allows students to compare the illustrator’s rendering with a photo of the actual structure as it may be seen in the laboratory or operating room.
• Step-by-Step Figures break down multifaceted processes into numbered step-by-step illustrations that coordinate with the authors’ narrative descriptions. These easy-to-follow sequences in the book are also featured on the Instructor Resource DVD (IR-DVD) (via the “Step Edit” function) for instructors to use in classroom presentations.
• Macro-to-Micro Figures help students to bridge the gap between familiar and unfamiliar structures of the body by sequencing anatomical views from whole organs or other structures to their smaller parts. A typical illustration might combine a simple orientation diagram (indicating where an organ or structure is located in the human body) with a large, vivid illustration of that organ or other structure, a corresponding cross-sectional view, and a photomicrograph.
• Illustration-over-Photo Figures, in addition to being visually dramatic with their 3D effects, teach realistic body proportions and structure placement.

Time-saving navigation and study tools:

• Learning Outcomes on each chapter-opening page indicate to students what they should be able to do after studying the chapter. These Learning Outcomes are coordinated by number to the chapter headings, allowing students to check their understanding by both Learning Outcomes and chapter topics. Additionally, the assessments in MasteringA&P are organized by these Learning Outcomes, allowing instructors to assign homework, assess understanding, and demonstrate teaching results by Learning Outcomes.
• Full-sentence chapter headings do more than introduce new topics: they state the core fact or concept that will be presented in the chapter section. These numbered chapter headings are directly correlated to the numbered Learning Outcomes found on the chapter-opening page, making it easy for students to see, navigate through, and learn the chapter content.   
• Vocabulary Development sections kick off each chapter, listing the important word roots that form the basis of the specialized terminology in the chapter.
• Checkpoint questions appear at the end of each section, closing out each major topic. Each Checkpoint checks student understanding of important facts and/or concepts according to what students most need to remember from the section in the chapter. The Checkpoints reinforce the Learning Outcomes listed on the chapter-opening page, resulting in a systematic integration of the Learning Outcomes over the course of the chapter. Students can instantly check their responses to these questions against the answers located at the back of the book.
• Concept Links, signaled with blue arrow icons, alert students to material that is related to, or builds upon, previous discussions. Each link refers students to a page number for quickly reviewing the relevant material from an earlier chapter.
• End-of-chapter 3-level learning system helps build student confidence and understanding through a logical progression from factual questions (Level 1) to conceptual problems (Level 2) to analytical exercises (Level 3). The variety of question types also gives instructors flexibility in assigning homework from the text.

Career preparation and clinical content:

• Clinical Notes, frequently enhanced with visuals, appear within every chapter and draw students’ attention to the diseases and disorders they will encounter in their future healthcare careers. Clinical Notes, frequently enhanced with visuals, appear within every chapter and draw students’ attention to the diseases and disorders they will encounter in their future healthcare careers.

• Career Paths are interview-based vignettes that showcase 11 healthcare professionals. They appear at the end of each body system. The following professions are featured: emergency medical technician (EMT), dental hygienist, massage therapist, physician assistant, physical therapist, phlebotomist, pediatric nurse, respiratory therapist, registered dietitian, pharmacy technician, and sonographer.
• The Big Picture boxes succinctly organize core concepts in anatomy & physiology at salient points in a chapter. These factual statements provide students with the key concepts that they should remember five years after their anatomy & physiology course, regardless of the specific career path they pursue in the future.

New To This Edition

Readability and visual effectiveness:

• Spotlight Figures are one- or two-page presentations that combine brief text and related visuals to communicate information in a visually effective and student-friendly format. The Spotlights make anatomical, physiological, and clinical content easy to read and understand.

• More effective figure organization makes figures easier for students to understand and study. Figure titles are now located consistently at the top of each figure, to introduce it, and figure part captions are now located immediately underneath their respective figure parts for effective text-art integration and easy reading. Many figures have also been reorganized to chunk information into clearer steps in order to guide students through complex processes.

• “Build-a-Body” System Integrators appear at the end of each body system to reinforce student understanding of the interconnection across all body systems.
• Easy-to-read tables are built on a new design that organizes information clearly for efficient studying.

Relevance to students’ future healthcare careers:

• Career Paths provide students with excellent introductions to some of the most popular careers in healthcare. These interview-based vignettes of 11 different healthcare professionals feature first-hand accounts of the profession, clinical images, and key statistics on annual earnings, job outlook, and education and training requirements to help students zero in on their dream career and motivate them in their studies. The following professions are featured: emergency medical technician (EMT), dental hygienist, massage therapist, physician assistant, physical therapist, phlebotomist, pediatric nurse, respiratory therapist, registered dietitian, pharmacy technician, and sonographer.

• Visually enhanced Clinical Notes draw students’ attention to the clinical issues they will encounter in their future careers.

Abundant opportunities for practice and assessment:

• MasteringA&P^®from Pearson has been designed and refined with a single purpose in mind: to help educators create that moment of understanding with their students. The Mastering online homework and tutoring system delivers self-paced tutorials that provide individualized coaching, focus on your course objectives, and are responsive to each student’s progress. The Mastering system helps instructors maximize class time with customizable, easy-to-assign, and automatically graded assessments that motivate students to learn outside of class and arrive prepared for lecture. By complementing your teaching with our engaging technology and content, you can be confident your students will arrive at that moment—the moment of true understanding.

MasteringA&P:

• Lets instructors easily assign Reading Quizzes, Chapter Tests, Art-based Questions, Art-labeling Activities, Practice Anatomy Lab^™ (PAL^™) Test Bank Questions, and Coaching Activities based on Essentials of Interactive Physiology^®–all automatically graded
• Provides students personalized coaching through answer-specific feedback and hints
• Motivates students to come to class prepared
• Easily captures data to demonstrate assessment outcomes
• The MasteringA&P box at the end of every chapter shows students the resources that are available in the MasteringA&P Study Area for self study. This MasteringA&P box lists chapter-specific material for the Practice Anatomy Lab (PAL) 3.0 virtual anatomy lab, the Essentials of Interactive Physiology^® physiology tutorials, and the MP3 Tutor Sessions

Table of Contents

1. An Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology

2. The Chemical Level of Organization

3. Cell Structure and Function

4. The Tissue Level of Organization

5. The Integumentary System

6. The Skeletal System

7. The Muscular System

8. The Nervous System

9. The General and Special Senses

10. The Endocrine System

11. The Cardiovascular System: Blood

12. The Cardiovascular System: The Heart

13. The Cardiovascular System: Blood Vessels and Circulation

14. The Lymphatic System and Immunity

15. The Respiratory System

16. The Digestive System

17. Energetics Metabolism

18. The Urinary System

19. The Reproductive System

20. Development and Inheritance