An all-in-one visual guide to human anatomy with encyclopedic coverage from bones and muscles
to systems and processes. This in-depth manual to the human body's physical structure chemical
workings and potential problems is a must-have reference to help further your studies or
knowledge of how our bodies work. Each page of The Human Body Book updated to reflect the
latest medical information is illustrated with colourful and comprehensive diagrams which are
thoroughly annotated to take you right into the cells and fibres that are responsible for
keeping the human body ticking. The opening chapter Integrated Body explains how the parts of
the body work together at various levels of size and hierarchy to produce the living whole. It
also contains an overview of the major body systems enlivened by real-life 3D medical scans of
the entire body. The chapters that follow provide coverage of the body function by function
system by system. Eleven main body systems are covered in turn with each section ending on
common injuries diseases and disorders afflicting that system. The book concludes with a
chapter on Growth and Development which looks in detail at how the body changes over the course
of a human lifespan.
