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CHAPTER 1

Introduction

The study of human anatomy has been prevalent in today's modern society. Many Filipinos have been studying any

medical courses in their college years. Some of these medical courses are medical technician, nutritionist and dietician,

while others specialize in the field of being physiologist, surgeon, anesthesiology and more. By observing the different

fields enumerated, all of them need the knowledge of human anatomy.

The term human anatomy comprises a consideration of the various structures which make up the human organism.

In a restricted sense it deals merely with the parts which form the fully developed individual and which can be rendered

evident to the naked eye by various methods of dissection.

To understand further the meaning of human anatomy, the researchers would dissect the word. Human which is the

first word means the common name given to any individual of the species Homo sapiens and, by extension, to the entire

species. On the other hand anatomy means anatomē, or "dissection", branch of natural science dealing with the

structural organization of living things. The proper understanding of structure, however, implies the knowledge of

function in the living organism. Anatomy is therefore almost inseparable from physiology, which is sometimes called

functional anatomy. As one of the basic life sciences, anatomy is closely related to medicine and to other branches of

biology. So to summarize, human anatomy is the study of homo sapiens and its body systems together with their

functions.

Tracing back its origin, the knowledge of human anatomy developed form the primitive years. The oldest known

systematic study of anatomy is contained in an Egyptian papyrus dating from about 1600 bc. About the same degree of

knowledge is reflected in the writings of the Greek physician Hippocrates in the 5th century bc. The first real progress...