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1) What is anatomy and physiology and the different ways to study A&P? Anatomy structure and location of the body ; Physiology function of the organ. - inspection—simply looking at the body’s ap ... pearance, as in performing a physical examination or making a clinical diagnosis from surface appearance. -Physical examinations also involve touching and listening to the body. -Palpation1 means feeling a structure with the hands, such as palpating a swollen lymph node or taking a pulse. - Auscultation is listening to the natural sounds made by the body, such as heart and lung sounds. - Percussion, the examiner taps on the body, feels for abnormal resistance, and listens to the emitted sound for signs of abnormalities such as pockets of fluid or air. -dissection the careful cutting and separation of tissues to reveal their relationships -comparative anatomy—the study of more than one species in order to examine structural similarities and differences and analyze evolutionary trends [Show More]

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