Medical Physiology: A Systems Approach

Physiology is the study of normal function within living creatures.It is a sub-section
of biology,covering a range of topics that include organs,anatomy,cells,biological
compounds,and how they all interact to make life possible.This book is a concise,
clinically oriented overview of physiology.This book offers a succinct yet thorough
overview of physiology along with an introduction to basic science principles and
their relevance to the clinical expression of disease. The book reflects medical
education's increased emphasis on providing students with more clinically oriented
content during their years of medical school and the importance of the essential
concepts of pathophysiology. Focused and clearly written, this book details the
major physiological processes involved in both health and disease. Most chapters
also include Clinical Correlations that reinforce the major physiological principles
covered and illustrate their importance to understanding disease states. The
chapters have been written by the renowned and internationally established
physiologists. This book grasps and keeps vital information, succinct text, and
dynamic illustrationsthatfacilitatelearning in a highly visualapproach