HUMAN ANATOMY A - L

Academic Year 2021/2022 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: Agata Grazia D'AMICO
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: BIO/16 - Human anatomy
Taught classes: 42 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

The course will provide students the necessary skills to understand the functional complexity of the human organism and the relationships between the anatomical structures and their functions. The student will acquire the correct anatomical terminology and develop to apply the earned knowledge during the performance of his professional tasks.

 

The specific training objectives are:

  1. To learn the anatomical terms describing each region of the human body and to understand the reciprocal relationships existing among organs. To acknowledge the macroscopic and microscopic characteristics of each organ.
  2. To understand the importance of learning human anatomy and be able to describe the relationship between the anatomical structure and its physiological function.

Course Structure

Lectures and pratical teaching on anatomical 3D models

Teaching will be provided in mixed-mode or remotely. Changes might be required with respect to previous statements to be in line with the programme planning, outlined in the syllabus.


Detailed Course Content

-Introduction to the study of human anatomy. - Anatomical position, terms of position and movement, regions of the body. - Basic knowledge and structure of the following tissues: epithelial, connective, muscular, nervous. - Tegumentary apparatus.

-Locomotor system: general bone and muscle tissue.

 

SPLANCHNOLOGY

- Respiratory system: general, external and internal nose, larynx, trachea, main bronchi and their ramifications, lungs, alveolus structure, pleurae.

- Digestive system: general information, buccal cavity, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine (duodenum and mesentery gut), large intestine (cecum, colon and rectum). - Macroscopic and microscopic anatomy of the liver and pancreas. Peritoneum.

- Urinary apparatus: kidneys, excretory organs (renal calyces, pelvis, ureteres), bladder, male and female urethra.

- Male genital apparatus: External genital organs (penis, scrotum), Internal genital organs (testis, epididymis, vas deferens, accessory glands).

- Female genital apparatus: External genital organ (vulva), Internal genital organs (vagina, cervix, uterus, Fallopian tubes, ovaries).

 

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM AND LYMPHATIC SYSTEM

- General characteristics on circulatory and lymphatic systems.

- Heart: external and internal morphology and structure, musculature of the atria and ventricles, system of conduction of the heart. - Histological organization of blood vessels (arteries, veins and capillaries). - Arterial system: aorta and its main branches. -Venous system: superior vena cava and inferior vena cava.

- Lymphatic system and immunity.

 

CONTROL SYSTEMS

- Nervous system: organization of nervous tissue, spinal cord and spinal nerves, motor and somatosensory pathways, brain and cranial nerves, autonomic nervous system (sympathetic and parasympathetic division).

- Endocrine system: hypothalamic control on the endocrine organs, pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, thymus, adrenal glands, endocrine pancreas.


Textbook Information

Anatomia Umana, Fondamenti. Barbatelli G. edi-ermes (testo 1)

Anatomia Umana. Martini FH. Edises. (testo 2)

 

Atlants:

Anatomia Umana Atlante Interattivo Multimediale, Giuseppe Anastasi e collaboratori, edi-ermes.

NETTER, Atlante di Anatomia Umana, Quinta edizione. Frank H. Netter. Edra.

PROMETHEUS, Atlante di Anatomia, Seconda edizione. Edises.