Exam 1 Anatomy & Physiology
The Unity of Form and Function
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Comparative Physiology - ANSWER ✔✔The study of how different
species have solved problems of life such as water balance, respiration,
and reproduction. Comparative physiology is also the basis for the
development of new drugs and medical procedures.
Hippocrates - ANSWER ✔✔Greek physician, the "father" of
medicine. He and his followers established a code of ethics for
physicians, the Hippocratic Oath, that is still re-cited in modern form by
graduating physicians at some medical schools.
,Aristotle - ANSWER ✔✔One of the first philosophers to write about
anatomy and physiology. He believed that diseases and other natural
events could have either supernatural causes, which he called theologi,
or natural ones, which he called physici or physiologi. We derive such
terms as physician and physiology from the latter. Until the nineteenth
century, physicians were called " doctors of physic." In his anatomy
book, On the Parts of Animals, Aristotle tried to identify unifying themes
in nature. Among other points, he argued that complex structures are
built from a smaller variety of simple components— a perspective that
we will find useful later in this chapter.
Claudius Galen - ANSWER ✔✔Physician to the Roman gladiators,
wrote the most influential medical textbook of the ancient era— a book
worshipped to excess by medical professors for centuries to follow.
Maimonides - ANSWER ✔✔Jewish physician - Moses ben Maimon.
A highly admired rabbi, Mai-monides wrote voluminously on Jewish law
and theology, but also wrote 10 influential medical books and numerous
treatises on specific diseases.
Avicenna or " the Galen of Islam" - ANSWER ✔✔Most highly
regarded medical scholar among Muslims. His textbook was "The Canon
, of Medicine" the leading authority in European medical schools for over
500 years.
Andreas Vesalius - ANSWER ✔✔Taught anatomy in Italy. Wrote the
first Atlas
William Harvey - ANSWER ✔✔What Vesalius was to anatomy,
Harvey was to physiology. Harvey is remembered especially for his
studies of blood circulation and a little book he published in 1628, known
by its abbreviated title De Motu Cordis ( On the Motion of the Heart).
Michael Servetus - ANSWER ✔✔He & Harvey were the first Western
scientists to realize that blood must circulate continuously around the
body, from the heart to the other organs and back to the heart again.
Robert Hooke - ANSWER ✔✔An Englishman, designed scientific
instruments of various kinds, including the compound microscope. This
is a tube with a lens at each end— an objective lens near the specimen,
which produces an initial magnified image, and an ocular lens (eyepiece)
near the ob-server's eye, which magnifies the first image still further.
Antony van Leeuwenhoek - ANSWER ✔✔A Dutch textile merchant,
invented a simple ( single- lens) microscope, originally for the purpose of
examining the weave of fabrics. His microscope was a bead-like lens
mounted in a metal plate equipped with a movable specimen clip. Even
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The Unity of Form and Function
updated A+ 2026
Comparative Physiology - ANSWER ✔✔The study of how different
species have solved problems of life such as water balance, respiration,
and reproduction. Comparative physiology is also the basis for the
development of new drugs and medical procedures.
Hippocrates - ANSWER ✔✔Greek physician, the "father" of
medicine. He and his followers established a code of ethics for
physicians, the Hippocratic Oath, that is still re-cited in modern form by
graduating physicians at some medical schools.
,Aristotle - ANSWER ✔✔One of the first philosophers to write about
anatomy and physiology. He believed that diseases and other natural
events could have either supernatural causes, which he called theologi,
or natural ones, which he called physici or physiologi. We derive such
terms as physician and physiology from the latter. Until the nineteenth
century, physicians were called " doctors of physic." In his anatomy
book, On the Parts of Animals, Aristotle tried to identify unifying themes
in nature. Among other points, he argued that complex structures are
built from a smaller variety of simple components— a perspective that
we will find useful later in this chapter.
Claudius Galen - ANSWER ✔✔Physician to the Roman gladiators,
wrote the most influential medical textbook of the ancient era— a book
worshipped to excess by medical professors for centuries to follow.
Maimonides - ANSWER ✔✔Jewish physician - Moses ben Maimon.
A highly admired rabbi, Mai-monides wrote voluminously on Jewish law
and theology, but also wrote 10 influential medical books and numerous
treatises on specific diseases.
Avicenna or " the Galen of Islam" - ANSWER ✔✔Most highly
regarded medical scholar among Muslims. His textbook was "The Canon
, of Medicine" the leading authority in European medical schools for over
500 years.
Andreas Vesalius - ANSWER ✔✔Taught anatomy in Italy. Wrote the
first Atlas
William Harvey - ANSWER ✔✔What Vesalius was to anatomy,
Harvey was to physiology. Harvey is remembered especially for his
studies of blood circulation and a little book he published in 1628, known
by its abbreviated title De Motu Cordis ( On the Motion of the Heart).
Michael Servetus - ANSWER ✔✔He & Harvey were the first Western
scientists to realize that blood must circulate continuously around the
body, from the heart to the other organs and back to the heart again.
Robert Hooke - ANSWER ✔✔An Englishman, designed scientific
instruments of various kinds, including the compound microscope. This
is a tube with a lens at each end— an objective lens near the specimen,
which produces an initial magnified image, and an ocular lens (eyepiece)
near the ob-server's eye, which magnifies the first image still further.
Antony van Leeuwenhoek - ANSWER ✔✔A Dutch textile merchant,
invented a simple ( single- lens) microscope, originally for the purpose of
examining the weave of fabrics. His microscope was a bead-like lens
mounted in a metal plate equipped with a movable specimen clip. Even
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