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Ganong's Review of Medical Physiology is a textbook in Physiology originally written by William Francis Ganong. [1] The first edition was published in 1963, [2] and the latest, 26th, edition was published in 2019, more than fifty years later than the first. [3]
Human physiology is the study of how the human body functions. This includes the mechanical, physical, bioelectrical, and biochemical functions of humans in good health, from organs to the cells of which they are composed. The human body consists of many interacting systems of organs.
[3] It is also a portmanteau term that describes all biological aspects of the human body, typically using the human body as a type organism for Mammalia, and in that context it is the basis for many undergraduate University degrees and modules. [4] [5] Most aspects of human biology are identical or very similar to general mammalian biology.
The first volume of the Annual Review of Physiology was published in 1939. [5] The first editor of the journal was Annual Reviews founder J. Murray Luck, [6] and the first editorial committee consisted of Anton Julius Carlson, John Farquhar Fulton, M. H. Jacobs, F. C. Mann, and Walter J. Meek as chairman. [7]
Musculoskeletal physiology is the branch of physiology which addresses the processes of musculoskeletal system. [ 1 ] In subclassifying musculoskeletal physiology, MeSH emphasizes the division between "phenomena" and "processes".
Online version of Gray's Anatomy – The complete 20th U.S. edition of Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, published in 1918. Anatomy of the Human Body, 20th US Edition (1918) at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) First edition of Gray's Anatomy, 1858 (direct PDF link) Gray's Anatomy. 2014. Episode 5 of the BBC TV series The Beauty of Anatomy.
Originally, as narrated in a recent history of the field, [2] physiology focused primarily on human beings, in large part from a desire to improve medical practices. When physiologists first began comparing different species it was sometimes out of simple curiosity to understand how organisms work but also stemmed from a desire to discover basic physiological principles.
Clinical physiology is an academic discipline within the medical sciences and a clinical medical specialty for physicians in the health care systems of Sweden, [1] Denmark, Portugal [2] and Finland. Clinical physiology is characterized as a branch of physiology that uses a functional approach to understand the pathophysiology of a disease. [3]