El Camino College

Life Science Dept.
Natural Sciences Division

Essentials of Anatomy & Pysiology
Online Resources

 

Anat 30
Instructor: 
Margaret Steinberg

          Unit 1
          Unit 2
          Unit 3
          Unit 4
          Unit 5
          General

A & P Home Page

Instructor Home

walking skeletonUnit 1 - Cells & Tissues 

 

North Harris College - Labeled tissues organized as epithelial, connective, muscle, nervous

Gateway Community College - Nice self quiz on tissues

Get Body Smart - click on "Histology" when you get there.  Has links to several good histology sites

University of Wisconsin - great labeled tissue pics, as well as organs of other body systems

Maricopa College - click on the "Cool Tutorials" at the bottom of the web page when you get there.  Has fun tutorials on histology, as well as other A & P topics

 

 

 

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Unit 2 - The Musculoskeletal System

Pennsylvania State University - Numbered pictures of the skeleton with answer keys (good for quizzing yourself)

Gateway Community College - nice self-quiz on the skull

University of Iowa - FREE, interactive, 3-D skull download program (very cool, but be forewarned: you have to register first, get a password, and it takes a while to download)

University of Minnesota anatomy web site with fun quizzes on the bones.

Get Body Smart - interactive animations of human muscles.  (One of my favorite A & P web sites!:)  Click on the Muscular System when you get there 

Penn. State University - great pictures of cat musculature.  Click on the Muscular System when you get there.

Gateway Community College - quiz yourself with their muscle models (very similar to our own models)

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Unit 3 - The Nervous System

Penn. State University - nice pictures of a dissected sheep brain, plus dissected sheep eyes, eye model, and ear model

Washington State University - Neuroscience for Kids has facinating information about the brain and nervous system (not just for kids)

Brain Information website - explanations about the brain categorized as beginner, intermediate, and advanced.

Brain Observatory video - talks about the new Brain Observatory being developed at UCSD.

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Unit 4 - Endocrine, Circulatory, & Respiratory Systems

Penn. State University - great pictures of cat blood vessels, and dissected sheep hearts

The Virtual Body - animations of heart function, digestion, skeleton, and the brain narrated in English and Spanish!

Get Body Smart - interactive animated heart function and other circulatory info., as well as the respiratory system

Circulation Blues - my video with song about blood flow through the heart

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Unit 5 - Digestive, Urinary, and Reproductive Systems


Get Body Smart - interactive animated urinary system

Mount Palomar College - includes many of the models found in our lab

Virtual Pig Dissection - interactive program allows you to explore a fetal pig's internal organs online

Penn State Anatomy - great labeled pictures of the cat's organ systems

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General A & P Web Sites

MyA&P - Textbook publisher's web site with lots of great info.!  You will need the access code inside your textbook and the instructor's code, which is: steinberg71269

Geocities - lots of topics and links to other web sites

Medline Interactive Health Tutorials - info. about disorders and their treatments

Iowa State University Virtual Hospital - has lots of health information

Mayo Clinic - lists hundreds of diseases, their symptoms and treatments

BCC Science & Nature - fun, interactive body quiz games

Wiley Publishers Anatomy & Physiology - fun drag and drop quizzes

Anatomy Bowl - a fun online game to hone your anatomy skills

CDC - US goverment Centers for Disease Control has great info. on diseases and health

Medical Dictionary - free online resource to find the meaning of medical terms

Bacteriology Textbook - learn more about bacteria and disease in the free online e-book

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Last Updated: 11/11/10