Human Anatomy, 9th edition

Published by Pearson (January 3, 2017) © 2018

  • Frederic H Martini University of Hawaii
  • Robert B. Tallitsch
  • Judi L. Nath Pennsylvania State University

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A fresh voice strengthens a visually compelling, classic human anatomy text

Revered for its groundbreaking, atlas-style format, detailed illustrations, and exceptionally clear photographs, Human Anatomy has long been known for its quality and sophistication, as well as its scope and level of coverage. Accomplished author and award-winning educator Judi Nath joins the writing team, bringing a fresh voice, enhanced accuracy, and a clear, engaging writing style to the 9th Edition.

The new edition builds upon the legacy of previous editions and includes expanded clinical content to help students focus on the types of diseases and injuries they are likely to encounter in their future careers; visually stunning Spotlight Figures in every chapter to guide students through complex topics; and new features that focus students on the key point in each section and use simple analogies and memory devices to help students remember facts and concepts.

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Mastering A&P is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to engage students and improve results. Instructors ensure that students arrive ready to learn by assigning educationally effective content before class, and encourage critical thinking and retention with in-class resources such as Learning Catalytics. Students can further master concepts after class through assignments that provide hints and answer-specific feedback. With a wide range of activities available, students can actively learn, understand, and retain even the most difficult concepts. A robust suite of online resources in Mastering A&P, including Spotlight Figure Coaching Activities and Dynamic Study Modules, allow students to interact with content from the book and learn more about the most difficult concepts.

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About the Book

  • UPDATED! Story-based Clinical Cases and Clinical Case Wrap Ups focus on commonly encountered clinical scenarios to help students learn about the types of diseases and injuries they are likely to encounter in their future careers. Updated Clinical Notes appear within every chapter, expand upon topics just discussed, and present diseases and pathologies along with their relationship to normal function
  • NEW! Key Point mini summary boxes at the beginning of each section outline the key point for that reading, succinctly stating what the student is about to learn and will glean from the section
  • NEW! Tips & Tools boxes give students simple analogies and easy memory devices to help them remember facts and concepts, and provide advice on how to differentiate and navigate difficult topics such as “Identifying Tendons and Elastic Ligaments,” and “Identifying Hyaline and Fibrous Cartilage.”
  • Spotlight Figures provide highly visual one- and two-page presentations of complex topics. The explanatory text is integrated into the visuals so students can find everything they need to understand a topic in one place. The 9th Edition includes one new Spotlight Figure on the Sympathetic Division of the Nervous System (chapter 17).
  • Additional, Unique Figures guide students through structures:
    • “Side-by-Side” Figures provide students with multiple views of the same structure, typically pairing an artist's drawing with a cadaver photograph taken by renowned biomedical photographer Ralph Hutchings. This approach allows students to compare the illustrator's careful rendering to a photo of the actual structure as it might be seen in the laboratory or operating room.
    • “Step-by-Step” Figures break down multifaceted processes into step-by-step illustrations that coordinate with the authors' narrative descriptions.
    • “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 down 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 structure, a corresponding sectional view, and a photomicrograph.
    • “Illustration-over-Photo” Figures bring depth and dimensionality to the page and ensure that the illustrated structures are visually proportional in size to the human body.
  • Tables appear frequently throughout the book to help students learn and review, making the book easy to study from.
  • 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 main chapter headings, allowing students to check their understanding by both Learning Outcomes and chapter topics. Additionally, the assessments in Mastering A&P are organized by these Learning Outcomes, allowing instructors to assign homework, assess understanding, and demonstrate teaching results by Learning Outcomes.
  • Concept Checkquestions ask students to pause and check their understanding of facts and concepts. They are located at predictable points throughout the chapter, at the end of each major topic, and the answers are at the back of the book.
  • 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 questions also gives instructors flexibility in assigning homework from the text.
  • Mastering A&P references direct students to online study tools to help them prepare for lab and review key chapter material.

Also available as a Pearson eText or packaged with Mastering A&P

Pearson eText is a simple-to-use, mobile-optimized, personalized reading experience that can be adopted on its own as the main course material. It lets students highlight, take notes, and review key vocabulary all in one place, even when offline. Seamlessly integrated videos and other rich media engage students and give them access to the help they need, when they need it. Educators can easily share their own notes with students so they see the connection between their eText and what they learn in class — motivating them to keep reading, and keep learning.

Mastering A&P is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to engage students and improve results. Instructors ensure that students arrive ready to learn by assigning educationally effective content before class, and encourage critical thinking and retention with in-class resources such as Learning Catalytics. Students can further master concepts after class through assignments that provide hints and answer-specific feedback. With a wide range of activities available, students can actively learn, understand, and retain even the most difficult concepts. A robust suite of online resources in Mastering A&P, including Spotlight Figure Coaching Activities and Dynamic Study Modules, allow students to interact with content from the book and learn more about the most difficult concepts.

  • NEW! TEAS and HESI exam practice questions in the Study Area help students prep for the nursing school entrance exam with 150 TEAS and 300 HESI multiple-choice questions and wrong-answer feedback for all questions.
  • IMPROVED! Dynamic Study Modules help students study effectively on their own by continuously assessing their activity and performance in real time. Here's how it works: students complete a set of questions with a unique answer format that also asks them to indicate their confidence level. Questions repeat until the student can answer them all correctly and confidently. These are available as graded assignments prior to class, and accessible on smartphones, tablets, and computers. New for the 9th Edition, instructors can now remove questions they do not wish to assign.
  • NEW! Pearson eText is now optimized for mobile:
    • Available on smartphones and tablets.
    • Can be downloaded for most iOS and Android phones/tablets from the Apple App Store or Google Play.
    • Seamlessly integrated videos and other rich media.
    • Accessible (screen-reader ready).
    • Configurable reading settings, including resizable type and night reading mode.
    • Instructor and student note-taking, highlighting, bookmarking, and search.
    • eText 2.0 mobile app offers offline access on iOS or Android phones/tablets.
  • IMPROVED! The Mastering A&P Study Area features new, mobile-friendly navigation and offers students additional practice test questions, reading quiz questions, flashcards, Get Ready for A&P tutorials, and more. Revised reading quizzes, chapter test reading questions, and Critical Linking activities have been added.
  • Spotlight Figure Coaching Activities bring interactivity to Spotlight Figures from every chapter in the text. These highly visual, interactive, multi-part activities include ranking and sorting questions.
  • A Variety of Clinical Content includes Clinical Case Activities, whichstem from the story-based Clinical Cases that appear at the beginning and end of each chapter in the book.
  • Additional Interactive Exercises include Bone & Dissection Video Coaching Activities that review the major bones and organ dissections and are supported with assignable activities that include hints and specific wrong-answer feedback; Art-Labeling and Ranking/Sorting Questions that allow students to assess their knowledge of terms and structures; conceptual Art-Based Questions; and a wide variety of Reading Questions that help students focus on key concepts in each chapter.
  • A&P Flix Activities for Anatomy Topics allow instructors to assign animations on difficult anatomy topics to test student understanding.
  • Practice Anatomy Lab (PAL) 4.0 is a virtual anatomy study and practice tool that provides students 24/7 access to the most widely used lab specimens including human cadaver, histology, cat, fetal pig, 3D and anatomical models. PAL 4.0 includes built-in audio pronunciations, mobile friendly flashcards, and multiple choice and fill-in-the blank lab practical quizzes. Questions with images from PAL can be assigned and automatically graded in the Mastering A&P Item Library.
  • Get Ready for A&P, 3rd Edition quickly gets students up to speed with helpful study skills, math skills, anatomical terminology, basic chemistry, cell biology, and other basics of the human body. Each chapter of this hands-on workbook includes a pre-test, guided explanation, interactive quizzes and exercises, and end-of-chapter cumulative tests. The Third Edition includes enhanced study tools and assessments in Mastering A&P and 10 Video Tutors that feature author Lori Garrett walking students through key concepts in chemistry and cell biology.
  • Learning Catalyticshelps generate class discussion, customize lectures, and promote peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics. As a student response tool, Learning Catalytics uses students' smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more interactive tasks and thinking.
    • NEW! Upload a full PowerPoint® deck for easy creation of slide questions.
    • NEW! Team names are no longer case sensitive.
    • Help your students develop critical thinking skills.
    • Monitor responses to find out where your students are struggling.
    • Rely on real-time data to adjust your teaching strategy.
    • Automatically group students for discussion, teamwork, and peer-to-peer learning.

About the Book

  • Story-based Clinical Cases and Clinical Case Wrap Ups focus on commonly encountered clinical scenarios to help students learn about the types of diseases and injuries they are likely to encounter in their future careers. Updated Clinical Notes appear within every chapter, expand upon topics just discussed, and present diseases and pathologies along with their relationship to normal function
  • Key Point mini summary boxes at the beginning of each section outline the key point for that reading, succinctly stating what the student is about to learn and will glean from the section
  • Tips & Tools boxes give students simple analogies and easy memory devices to help them remember facts and concepts, and provide advice on how to differentiate and navigate difficult topics such as “Identifying Tendons and Elastic Ligaments,” and “Identifying Hyaline and Fibrous Cartilage.”

Also available as a Pearson eText or packaged with Mastering A&P

Pearson eText is a simple-to-use, mobile-optimized, personalized reading experience that can be adopted on its own as the main course material. It lets students highlight, take notes, and review key vocabulary all in one place, even when offline. Seamlessly integrated videos and other rich media engage students and give them access to the help they need, when they need it. Educators can easily share their own notes with students so they see the connection between their eText and what they learn in class – motivating them to keep reading, and keep learning.

Mastering A&P is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to engage students and improve results. Instructors ensure that students arrive ready to learn by assigning educationally effective content before class, and encourage critical thinking and retention with in-class resources such as Learning Catalytics. Students can further master concepts after class through assignments that provide hints and answer-specific feedback. With a wide range of activities available, students can actively learn, understand, and retain even the most difficult concepts. A robust suite of online resources in Mastering A&P, including Spotlight Figure Coaching Activities and Dynamic Study Modules, allow students to interact with content from the book and learn more about the most difficult concepts.

  • TEAS and HESI exam practice questions in the Study Area help students prep for the nursing school entrance exam with 150 TEAS and 300 HESI multiple-choice questions and wrong-answer feedback for all questions.
  • IMPROVED! Dynamic Study Modules help students study effectively on their own by continuously assessing their activity and performance in real time. Here's how it works: students complete a set of questions with a unique answer format that also asks them to indicate their confidence level. Questions repeat until the student can answer them all correctly and confidently. These are available as graded assignments prior to class, and accessible on smartphones, tablets, and computers. New for the 9th Edition, over one hundred and fifty new questions, plus instructors can now remove questions they do not wish to assign.
  • Pearson eText is now optimized for mobile:
    • Available on smartphones and tablets. Can be downloaded for most iOS and Android phones/tablets from the Apple App Store or Google Play.
    • Seamlessly integrated videos and other rich media.
    • Accessible (screen-reader ready).
    • Configurable reading settings, including resizable type and night reading mode.
    • Instructor and student note-taking, highlighting, bookmarking, and search.
    • eText 2.0 mobile app offers offline access on iOS or Android phones/tablets.
  • The Mastering A&P Study Area features new, mobile-friendly navigation and offers students additional practice test questions, reading quiz questions, flashcards, Get Ready for A&P tutorials, and more. Revised reading quizzes, chapter test reading questions, and Critical Linking activities have been added.
  • Learning Catalyticshelps generate class discussion, customize lectures, and promote peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics. As a student response tool, Learning Catalytics uses students' smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more interactive tasks and thinking.
    • NEW! Upload a full PowerPoint® deck for easy creation of slide questions.
    • NEW! Team names are no longer case sensitive.
    • Help your students develop critical thinking skills.
    • Monitor responses to find out where your students are struggling.
    • Rely on real-time data to adjust your teaching strategy.
    • Automatically group students for discussion, teamwork, and peer-to-peer learning.

Brief Contents

  1. Foundations: An Introduction to Anatomy
  2. Foundations: The Cell
  3. Foundations: Tissues and Early Embryology
  4. The Integumentary System
  5. The Skeletal System: Osseous Tissue and Skeletal Structure
  6. The Skeletal System: Axial Division
  7. The Skeletal System: Appendicular Division
  8. The Skeletal System: Joints
  9. The Muscular System: Skeletal Muscle Tissue and Muscle Organization
  10. The Muscular System: Axial Musculature
  11. The Muscular System: Appendicular Musculature
  12. Surface Anatomy and Cross-Sectional Anatomy
  13. The Nervous System: Neural Tissue
  14. The Nervous System: The Spinal Cord and Spinal Nerves
  15. The Nervous System: Sensory and Motor Pathways of the Spinal Cord
  16. The Nervous System: The Brain and Cranial Nerves
  17. The Nervous System: Autonomic Nervous System
  18. The Nervous System: General and Special Senses
  19. The Endocrine System
  20. The Cardiovascular System: Blood
  21. The Cardiovascular System: The Heart
  22. The Cardiovascular System: Vessels and Circulation
  23. The Lymphoid System
  24. The Respiratory System
  25. The Digestive System
  26. The Urinary System
  27. The Reproductive System
  28. The Reproductive System: Embryology and Human Development

Frederic (Ric) Martini

Author

Dr. Martini received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in comparative and functional anatomy for work on the pathophysiology of stress. In addition to professional publications that include journal articles and contributed chapters, technical reports, and magazine articles, he is the lead author of ten undergraduate texts on anatomy and physiology or anatomy. Dr. Martini is currently affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa and has a long-standing bond with the Shoals Marine Laboratory, a joint venture between Cornell University and the University of New Hampshire. He has been active in the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS) for over 24 years and was a member of the committee that established the course curriculum guidelines for A&P. He is now a President Emeritus of HAPS after serving as President-Elect, President, and Past-President over 2005–2007. Dr. Martini is also a member of the American Physiological Society, the American Association of Anatomists, the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, the Australia/New Zealand Association of Clinical Anatomists, the Hawaii Academy of Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the International Society of Vertebrate Morphologists.

Robert B. Tallitsch

Author

Dr. Tallitsch received his Ph.D. in physiology with an anatomy minor from the University of Wisconsin–Madison at the ripe old age of 24. Dr. Tallitsch has been on the biology faculty at Augustana College (Illinois) since 1975. His teaching responsibilities include Human Anatomy, Neuroanatomy, Histology, and Cadaver Dissection. He is also a member of the Asian Studies faculty at Augustana College, teaching a course in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Dr. Tallitsch has been designated as one of the “unofficial teachers of the year” by the graduating seniors at Augustana 19 out of the last 20 years. Dr. Tallitsch is a member of the American Association of Anatomists, where he serves as a Career Development Mentor; the American Association of Clinical Anatomists; and the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Dr. Tallitsch currently serves as a reviewer for the Problem-Based Learning Clearinghouse and has served as a visiting faculty member at the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and Pharmacology (Beijing, PRC), the Foreign Languages Faculty at Central China Normal University (Wuhan, PRC), and in the Biology Department at Central China Normal University (Wuhan, PRC).

Judi L. Nath

Author

Dr. Judi Nath is a biology professor and the writer-in-residence at Lourdes University, where she teaches at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Primary courses include anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, medical terminology, and science writing. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Bowling Green State University, which included study abroad at the University of Salzburg in Austria.  Her doctoral work focused on autoimmunity, and she completed her Ph.D. from the University of Toledo. Dr. Nath is devoted to her students and strives to convey the intricacies of science in captivating ways that are meaningful, interactive, and exciting. She has won the Faculty Excellence Award—an accolade recognizing effective teaching, scholarship, and community service—multiple times and in 2013 was named as an Ohio Memorable Educator.  She is active in many professional organizations, notably the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS), where she has served several terms on the board of directors. Dr. Nath is a coauthor of Fundamentals of Anatomy & Physiology, Visual Anatomy & Physiology, Visual Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology, and Anatomy & Physiology (published by Pearson); and she is the sole author of Using Medical Terminology and Stedman’s Medical Terminology (published by Wolters Kluwer). Her favorite charities are those that have significantly affected her life, including the local Humane Society, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and the ALS Association. In 2015, she and her husband established the Nath Science Scholarship at Lourdes University to assist students pursuing science-based careers. When not working, days are filled with family life, bicycling, and hanging with the dogs.

William C. Ober

Art Coordinator and Illustrator

Dr. Ober received his undergraduate degree from Washington and Lee University and his M.D. from the University of Virginia. He also studied in the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. After graduation, Dr. Ober completed a residency in Family Practice and later was on the faculty at the University of Virginia in the Department of Family Medicine and in the Department of Sports Medicine. He also served as Chief of Medicine of Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville, VA. He is currently a Visiting Professor of Biology at Washington and Lee University, where he has taught several courses and led student trips to the Galápagos Islands. He was on the Core Faculty at Shoals Marine Laboratory for 24 years, where he taught Biological Illustration every summer. Dr. Ober has collaborated with Dr. Martini on all of his textbooks in every edition.

Claire E. Ober

Illustrator

Claire E. Ober, R.N., B.A., practiced family, pediatric, and obstetric nursing before turning to medical illustration as a full-time career. She returned to school at Mary Baldwin College, where she received her degree with distinction in studio art. Following a five-year apprenticeship, she has worked as Dr. Ober’s partner at Medical & Scientific Illustration since 1986. She was on the Core Faculty at Shoals Marine Laboratory and co-taught the Biological Illustration course with Dr. Ober for 24 years. The textbooks illustrated by Medical & Scientific Illustration have won numerous design and illustration awards.

Kathleen Welch

Clinical Consultant

Dr. Welch received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and her M.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle, and did her residency in Family Practice at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Participating in the Seattle WWAMI rural medical education program, she studied in Fairbanks, Anchorage, and Juneau, Alaska, with time in Boise, Idaho, and Anacortes, Washington, as well. For two years, she served as Director of Maternal and Child Health at the LBJ Tropical Medical Center in American Samoa and subsequently was a member of the Department of Family Practice at the Kaiser Permanente Clinic in Lahaina, Hawaii, and on the staff at Maui Memorial Hospital. She was in private practice from 1987 until her retirement in 2012. Dr. Welch is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Practice and a member of the Hawaii Medical Association, the Maui County Medical Association,  and the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS). With Dr. Martini, she has coauthored both a textbook on anatomy and physiology and the A&P Applications Manual. She and Dr. Martini were married in 1979, and they have one son.

Ruth Anne O’Keefe

Clinical Consultant

Dr. O’Keefe did her undergraduate studies at Marquette University, attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, and received her M.D. from George Washington University. She was the first woman to study orthopedic surgery at The Ohio State University. She did fellowship training in trauma surgery at Loma Linda University. She has always been passionate about global health and has done orthopedic surgery in high-need areas around the world, taking her own surgical teams to places such as the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Peru, Burkina Faso, and New Zealand. She serves on the board of Global Health Partnerships, a group that partners with a clinic serving 50,000 very poor people in rural Kenya. Dr. O’Keefe has enjoyed teaching at all levels and at all the universities where she has lived. She now lives in Albuquerque with her Sweet Ed. She is mother of four, grandmother of thirteen, and foster grandmother to many.


Ralph T. Hutchings

Biomedical Photographer

Mr. Hutchings was associated with The Royal College of Surgeons of England for 20 years. An engineer by training, he has focused for years on photographing the structure of the human body. The result has been a series of color atlases, including the Color Atlas of Human Anatomy, the Color Atlas of Surface Anatomy, and The Human Skeleton (all published by Mosby-Yearbook Publishing). For his anatomical portrayal of the human body, the International Photographers Association chose Mr. Hutchings as the best photographer of humans in the twentieth century. He lives in North London, where he tries to balance the demands of his photographic assignments with his hobbies of early motor cars and airplanes.

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