Anatomy & Physiology Fall 2008

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Several had mentioned starting a study thread early so we could get prepared for our fall A&P class, so here goes. I have gathered several websites from both here and on my own, so wanted to post them early on so that we wouldn't have to search for them. Please feel free to add to them and also any advice or study tactics that seem to work for you.

Thankyou to Eveyone here at AllNurses who have provided so much information in one spot.

Lectures

http://www.clickcaster.com/kerry-henrickson

http://aaim.k12.ar.us/Podcasting%20Lectures%20in%20MP3%20Format%20publisher.pdf

http://www.podcasters.tv/podcast/27225/biology_2110_2120_anatomy_and_physiology_with_doc_c.html

http://www.learnoutloud.com/Podcast-Directory/Science/Biology/Biology-2120-Lectures-on-Anatomy-and-Physiology-Podcast/18745#plink

http://content.hccfl.edu/facultyinfo/nehringer/bsc1085videolectures.html

Anatomical Terms for the Body

http://www.highlands.edu/subwebs/shenderson/API/lab_manual/introlab.htm

http://www.anatomy.usyd.edu.au/glossary/index.cgi

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/Section/Anatomy-Physiology-Glossary.id-305499,articleId-30161.html

http://training.seer.cancer.gov/module_anatomy/unit1_3_terminology2_planes.html

Resources

http://www.anatomy.org/resources/resource_links.asp

http://www.primalpictures.com/Home.aspx

Dissections

Cadaver

http://www.primalpictures.com/Home.aspx

Cat

http://bio.bd.psu.edu/cat/

http://biology.kenyon.edu/heithausp/cat-tutorial/welcome.htm

Tissues

http://groups.msn.com/AnatomyPhysiologyTests/tissues.msnw

Nervous System

http://msjensen.cehd.umn.edu/WEBANATOMY/self/default.htm

Study Guides

http://www.studystack.com/menu-46279

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/CliffsReviewTopic/Anatomy-Physiology.topicArticleId-22032.html

http://groups.msn.com/AnatomyPhysiologyTests/tissues.msnw

http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/dropdrag/index.htm

http://www.studystack.com/studytable-46102

http://msjensen.cehd.umn.edu/webanatomy/skeletal/default.html

http://www.doctaj.com/

http://daphne.palomar.edu/ccarpenter/Models/model%20index.htm

http://anatomy.uams.edu/anatomyhtml/gross_atlas.html

http://www.visiblebody.com/

Flashcards

http://www.flashcardexchange.com/

Quizes and Games

http://www.doctaj.com/

http://www.instantanatomy.net/questions.html

http://www.quia.com/jg/569630.html

http://rosetime.netfirms.com/week1.htm

http://msjensen.cehd.umn.edu/WEBANATOMY/self/default.htm

http://www.fortlewis.edu/academics/school_arts_sciences/biology/anatphys/mainmenu.htm

Body Cavities

http://training.seer.cancer.gov/module_anatomy/unit1_3_terminology3_cavities.html

Ok, that's it for tonight....I have several others but hopefully this will keep everyone busy for a day or 2 :chuckle:yeah:I'm sure we all have diferent study habits and will need to find our own way there but I am hoping we can work together as a study team.

Maybe each day or two, someone could provide a study tip or an mneumonics for memorization for tissues or nerves, anything that is helping you learn. Or if you come accross somethin that you can't use, maybe someone else can.

:yawn: OFF to Bed for me

When I first started this class, it scared me a little because I was so used to being able to get extra credit in all my science classes. This class is offering ZERO extra credit. So I studied like heck, and I just found out I got a 96 on lab exam and 93 on lecture exam on Histology and Integument system. Yay!

But we have another exam tomorrow on bones...wish me luck.

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I have done super in A&P until I got to the bones. Added to trying to learn all the bones we had a death in the family, husband had surgery and I am trying to take care of everyone. I have a lab praticum tonight and I think the bones are still chinese too me. Last week on the exam I did poor so the only thing I think I can do is make it through the praticum and then go back to study, study, study! One thing is for sure, I won't have an "A" after tonight. :(

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I have done super in A&P until I got to the bones. Added to trying to learn all the bones we had a death in the family, husband had surgery and I am trying to take care of everyone. I have a lab praticum tonight and I think the bones are still chinese too me. Last week on the exam I did poor so the only thing I think I can do is make it through the praticum and then go back to study, study, study! One thing is for sure, I won't have an "A" after tonight. :(

What do you need help with? Is there anything I can do to make it easier to help you know some of them?

Nancy

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What do you need help with? Is there anything I can do to make it easier to help you know some of them?

Nancy

I can get the major bones to stick in my head, it is all the extra words that won't stay! I think I have had so much stress that my brain isn't holding in everything. Covering chapters 6-8 on the entire skeleton is so much information and I dropped the ball. I don't know what can help me in 2 hours when I have been at these bones for a couple of weeks. :)

Any tips you have would be great, I will just have to change my study habits for the next round.:no:

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I can get the major bones to stick in my head, it is all the extra words that won't stay! I think I have had so much stress that my brain isn't holding in everything. Covering chapters 6-8 on the entire skeleton is so much information and I dropped the ball. I don't know what can help me in 2 hours when I have been at these bones for a couple of weeks. :)

Any tips you have would be great, I will just have to change my study habits for the next round.:no:

The sutures on the skull:

Crononal: crown of the head

Sagittal: down the middle

Lamboidal: back of the head between parietal and occipital (lambda shaped, upside down "U")

Sqamous: sides

Skull bones:

Sphenoid: greater wing (part of eye socket), lesser wing (looks like horns), pytergoid process (legs of butterfly) and sella turcica (saddle like and can be seen from the cranial floor)

Ethmoid: crista galli (goes on top, pointed); middle bone is perpendicular plate, the sides are the superior and middle concha)

Maxilla: top of jaw (remember Godzilla is on top)

Mandible: bottom

Chin: mental and hole in chin is mental foramen

Nasal bones: are just that.

Vomer: the bone in the middle of your nose on the bottom

Zygomatic: cheek bone (zygomatic process goes off of cheek bone to temporal lobe)

Vertebra:

Atlas (c1- comes first (world))

Axis (C2)- the world spins on an axis

Cerivcal Vertebra: c1-c7 (has small body and transverse formina (circles-cervical) sticking off the sides

Body

Pedicles- little "foot rests"

Transverse process on each side

Spinous process (projection off of back - the bone you can feel in your backbone)

Thoracic (T1-T12):

Spinous process gets "thrust" downwards and is a thicker- looks like a texas longhorn

Lumbar (L1-L5)

Very thick body

Sacrum

Base (width on top)

Apex (bottom point)

Os Coxa (hips)

Ilium (make sure you spell this right, because ileum is the small intestine)

Iliac crest (top of hip bone

Acetabulum (hole where femur goes)

Pubis (front part of bottom of hip)

Ishium: back part of hip bone)

Femur: Greater and lesser Trochanter go in the back

Foot: tarsals

Talus: ankle

Calcaneous-heel

Upper Arm:

Humerous,

Greater and Lesser Tubercle

Anatomical neck

Surgical Neck

Lateral to Medical (lateral epicondyle, capitulum, trochlea, medical epicondyle

Ulna: articulates with trochanter and olecranon fossa)

Radius: articulates with capitulum on the lateral side (your cap looks radiant outside)

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Don't know if this will help anyone or not, but in lab the other night we separated out all of the vertabrea in order to get a good idea how they differed. What we noticed is that the cervical had 3 holes, the thoracic looked like a deer skull with antlers sticking straight up, and the lumbar looked like a moose with the antlers wrapping around the front. Kinda silly, but after we made this realization, it was easy to identify them.

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Hi guys, sorry I have been missing for a while....busy w/school and am caring for a terminally ill family member.

I am maintaining but w/lots of luck and no sleep....I also have a bone exam in the am.....did not do so well on my Respiratory exam...mtg w/Prof in the am....2/3 of the class really flunked out so I did better than them......sigh!

I am going over cardiovascular right now too (for RT) so will be prepared when I get to A&P 2.

Hope everyone does well in their classes and scores A's on their exams.

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Thanks a lot for the links!

I just started my A&P class, how can I get involved in the study groups?

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The sutures on the skull:

Thank you!!!! Your little sheet helped! If you have more like this please share with us!

Lisa

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Thanks a lot for the links!

I just started my A&P class, how can I get involved in the study groups?

They have study groups on here? Wow!! Where do I sign up? Our A&P class starts with some chemistry and I am God-awful with that!! I'm not failing, but know I'm not doing as well as I normally do in classes. I just will not be satisfied if I "skate" with a C knowing I could have done better.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

I was just wondering if everyone was being tested on 5 chapters at a time? I don't feel like anything is sticking because of the amount of info I am trying to memorize!

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I was just wondering if everyone was being tested on 5 chapters at a time? I don't feel like anything is sticking because of the amount of info I am trying to memorize!

I know my first test was only about 2.5 chapters. The next will be 3 chapters. Five is deadly.

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