Human Anatomy / A&P I Club for Fall 2007

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I'm starting human anatomy next week, and would love to get a sticky started to keep each other sane. I'm a bit nervous about starting this class, as I really need an A, but work full-time and will also be taking abnormal psych. It's going to be a lot of work! :uhoh3:

Let's help each other out through this forum! :welcome:

So, when are you starting, where are you taking it, and how are you feeling?

Specializes in LTC, Cardiac Step-Down.

Okay, my class is starting the muscular system.

I have to learn the name of the muscle and its location, as well as the Origin, Insertion, and Action.

Any tips on how to study all this information?

Pepper

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Specializes in rehab, dementia.

Hi, i need some suggestions on studying skeletal/muscles....i've got an exam on wednesday...

Thanks.

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I am talking Anatomy right now and will be taking Physiology in the spring. This class had me so nervous to begin with because there are many people I know who failed it last year. Also, I doesn't help that I am also taking Biology, Athropology, and Stats along with it. Taking two science classes with labs is pretty tough, but its definately

do-able! I had my first test yesterday and I feel very good about it. I will know my test score on Tuesday and I am very excited to see how I did! Also, I have a lab quiz on Tuesday, so wish me luck!!

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Amber... good luck.

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Forgive me if this has been asked already (I haven't looked through the entire thread...bad, I know ;)) but I was wondering if anyone else has practicals? I'm not even sure if that's a requirement of all A&P classes, but for mine it is.

My professor was telling us what our first one entails, and I am officially a little freaked out. There will be a bunch of microscopes lined up, and one by one, we each have to go to each microscope, look at the slide (they will all be tissues) and we'll have 10 seconds per slide to write down what type of tissue it is and where in the body it's located.

It didn't sound too terrible until we looked at some of the tissues during our first lab...they all look the same! Lol well not all of them, but it will definitely be challenging to remember which is which...

lots of studying ahead!!

edit: I just saw the post about the bone practical above...so practicals must be standard :)

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i feel your pain. but keep in mind that there are only 4 types of tissues. you have to narrow it down. don't look at it as 25 of more slides. the epithelial tissues are the hardes to tell but if you remember from reading or lecture they are the ones that line most of the linining of any tube. so in the microscope you will see pink and white around this tissue. the white part is a lumen or the linning of some organ. that is your biggest hint on epithelial tissues. now you have to tell what of the three shapes it is (squamous, cuboidal,columanar). well squamous is the one that looks like flat pancakes or fried eggs. if there is only one layer that that is (simple) and if there is more (stratified). remeber there are only two types of layers. the one with stratified squamous has the most layers why? because it needs to protect mechanical stressors such as the skin of you body and the lining of your mouth that goes through a lot of harsh stuff.

anything that is simple obviously is one layer and doesn't give you much protection. so why do we have them? for secreation and absoription. when you eat ,the food needs to get absorbed by your gastrointestinal tract by absorption. this is where the simple columnar, and lets say kidneys they secreate alot of stuff so here you have simple cuboidal.

cuboidal: are square and nucleus in a microscope looks bigger than other cells. they take up most of the volume.

columnar: are long rectangular looking

now look over your notes ans try to figuire them out!

hint: a cell with cilia usually will be in the respiratory tract. why? becasue you neet it there to trap (mucus)the microorganism and push it up out the resp tract.

now for the muscle and nervous tissues there aren't that many.

connective tissues are actually easier to see they are made of fibers.

good luck!

sorry it got long;)

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There will be a bunch of microscopes lined up, and one by one, we each have to go to each microscope, look at the slide (they will all be tissues) and we'll have 10 seconds per slide to write down what type of tissue it is and where in the body it's located.

It didn't sound too terrible until we looked at some of the tissues during our first lab...they all look the same!

Here are some websites with good slide images. (You can find lots more sites by typing Histology Slides into the Google Search Box.) I try to only look at the 400X and lower-magnification ones, since our lab won't have any electron microscope slides!!! I have found that by repeatedly clicking on the various kinds of images and just looking at them, I've started to figure out which ones are which. Finally, simple cuboidal epithelia are starting to make sense! :)

http://www.meddean.luc.edu/LUMEN/MedEd/Histo/frames/h_frame1.html

http://www.kumc.edu/instruction/medicine/anatomy/histoweb/epithel/epithel.htm

http://www.dccc.edu/departments/biology/virtuals/virtualmicroscope/VMPage/topmenu.htm

And my favorite:

http://www.histology-world.com/audioslides/audio.htm

On that website, you can click on a slide and then hear someone explain how you know that it's simple columnar epithelia, transitional epithelia, etc. So be sure your sound is on when you visit that site. Way cool!!

Editing to add another site at the University of Delaware:

http://www.udel.edu/biology/Wags/histopage/histopage.htm

That site also has powerpoint lecture slides.

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I am taking Anatomy right now... I totally lost my passion :(

It's alot alot more about memorization than I expected (which I expected to be alot alot already...) I feel like I am reading a phone book, all memorization with no direction. It's nothing about learning, of course I am learning about alot of names and parts, But compare to my other class Microbiology, Anatomy is not a normal kind of learning. By the way, I really like Microbiology! It's soooo interesting!!

Two weeks ago we had our first Anatomy midterm (lec and lab on the same day). Everybody did so bad on the lab exam that the teacher had to add 15 points to everybody's score (out of 64)! That was a hugh adjustment...

This Friday we are going to have our second midterm. This time is on Bones... I feel a little bit better this time... Wish me luck!! :uhoh3:

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Is your class just on Anatomy???

Change of subject............... I was wondering if we can start asking each other questions? I think it would help us out more. Any questions that you are confused about in class. Maybe we can all answer them. Lets try it.

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My class is just Anatomy by itself. We have to take Anatomy and Physiology separately at my school...

Hey how do you guys memorize everything? I mean there must be a way to do that... a less painful way... :o

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What do you need to memorize? It all depends.

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Thanks for the club, I will definitely be checking in more often.

;-)

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