A COMPEND OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY

A Manual of Human Physiology

Human Physiology

Students and teachers often express a need for an introductory text of physiology, one which is more readable than longer, standard texts, yet which will at the same time guide the beginning student into more effective use of a comprehensive treatise. This need is well satisfied by publication of the third edition of Human Physiology. Written as it is by a group of distinguished teachers and sc...

Human Physiology

Ims book although it is only five years old has now cached its second edition?a fact which tends to piejudice the reviewer in its favour. The academic eacher ot to-day, with the curriculum as it is, knows at it is no easy task to instruct the medical student n physiology, keeping in mind that the study is not an en(' 111 itself and that only some fifteen months fan be devoted to it. The subject...

Physiology of parturition

Labor is a physiological event involving a sequential, integrated set of changes within the myometrium, deciduas, and uterine cervix that occur gradually over a period of days to weeks. Biochemical connective tissue changes in the uterine cervix appear to precede uterine contractions and cervical dilation, and all of these events usually occur before rupture of the fetal membranes. In other wor...

Reviewing the physiology of human perspiration and introducing different types of antiperspirant and deodorant products

Habits since the introduction of the first commercial antiperspirant and deodorant, the use of these products have played an increasing role in a person's personal care. This article studies the physiology of human perspiration and responsible compounds for body odor. It also describes the function, classification, and differences between antiperspirants and deodorants.