Welcome to the PhysioWeb!
The following are resources and materials used or supplementing Mr. Topham's Physiology classes for the 2011-2012 school year. It is the hope that these materials will help students with the aquisition of the subject matter more readily. If there is anything you would like added or changed, E-Me and let me know. This is YOUR site; Be Vocal.
Structure without function is a corpse;
Function without structure is a ghost

"Your body is a whole, all of its parts connected. Your body wants to be healthy. Every lifestyle choice you make has a profound impact on how you live, feel, age. Only a true understanding and appreciation of your body will enable you to live long and live well."
-Andrew Weil, M.D.
Author of Healthy Aging and director of the University of Arizona Program in Integrative Medicine. (wisdom from a coffee cup.... you can guess from where)

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School Loop

The Heart Mantra

RT side dO2 blood
LT side O2 blood
Arteries away from Heart
Veins to Heart
Atria Collect
Ventricles Pump
O2 blood to Body
dO2 blood to Lungs


Cpt 11, Blood Vocab
Cpt 12, Heart Vocab


Blood
 Structure of the Hear
Cardiac Conduction, how impulses are created
PPT animations
The path of the Cardiac Conduction System
Lab 35 Instructions
These should help out with Lab 35:
HistoWeb Blood site
Blood cells. Get the images for Procedure A, Part B from the U of N @ Omaha. Good close-up images without the 'Scope; I've mirrored the site.
Lab 38A Structure Instructions
Heart Dissection
Lab 38B Dissection Instructions
These should help out with Lab 38:
Heart Structure: A dissected heart, plus external view, complete with labels.
A very cool version of the above. Not as detailed, but worth your look!
Heart Rate Lab Instructions
Lab 41 Blood Pressure Instructions
Download BP Chart
How Measuring BP Works
Heart Rate Lab Instructions
WebAnatomy Links:
Internal 1, Internal 2
External 1
Blood Flow

Portfolio info & assignment. Contract Sheet.
The Disease Diary, a collection of research into human disease. Use this as a reference should you choose this item for your Portfolio,.
A Fantastic Voyage, a journey through the human body, designed by you! This project, based on the Film and readings about Micromachinary, is all about creativity and imagination. OK, it's also about A&P....

Martini Glossary
Animation
Chambers of Heart
Cardiac Cycle Intro
Cardiac Cycle: Atrial Flow
Atrial Systole
Ventricular Systole
Cardiac Cycle Overview
Cardiac Conduction
Practice Tests
Multiple Choice
Matching
Critical Thinking

Topic 6: Circulatory System

  I Left My Heart, in........ Tuscaloosa?? Nope, Right here in San Francisco where you can learn to Love the Heart and the rest of the circulatory system!!
Atherosclerosis is a serious health problem for EVERYONE. Read the Latest from Scientific American. After you've read it, Answer the Questions. Download the printable version.

An Introduction to the Structure of the Heart

Test yourself on Heart Structure. This was my creation

Heart Practice test. Interactive. Not for EC, that's below.

Heart Dissection
The following links will help you out with the Sheep Heart Dissection. I recommend looking them over; Study them, especially before the practical. Google for more!

Heart Structure: A dissected heart, plus external view, complete with labels.

A very cool version of the above. Not as detailed, but worth your look!

Home Science Tools look at the Heart. Images in .pdf format

videos of heart dissections. Video 1, Video 2, Video 3. Search for more.

If you like gory, try this video from U of Michigan

The Heart from Penn State. A series of practice tests. Very Good!

It's a pig's heart, but there are some good 'fresh' images

Images very much like we've seen, from the U of Washington

A Generalized look at Blood Flow

The meat and potatoes, The Mechanics of the Heart, the Cardiac cycle through Regulation of the heart

Blood Vessel structure and the few specific vessels you need to know!

120/80?? I hope so. Find out more here in a discussion on Blood Pressure.

A nice tutrorial on BP from Butler CC.

How do Vessel size and the Composition of the Blood effect BP? Do the Lab and find out!

Atherosclerosis is a serious health problem for EVERYONE. Read the Latest from Scientific American. After you've read it, Answer the Questions. Download the printable version.

HistoWeb Vascular (blood vessel) site, and Muscle site with images of Cardiac muscle.

Cardiac Cycle Review, The Answers, the Cardiac Cycle Review 2 Answers, or BP Regulation, the CD Answers

Blood, the liquid tissue. Get the Skinny here with the into to Blood.

A good look at Blood from Fun Science Gallery

Red Blood cells or White Blood cells??? You chose here.

Plasma and Platelets, moves the stuff and keeps it in the blood

A, B, AB, O and the pesky Rh. All described here in Blood Types

Sickle Cell video

  • Use the Pop-Up Menu in the heading above to access each Organ Systems Home Page or to E-Mail me!
  • Check out the copy of the class syllabus on-line, if you ever have any questions regarding course basics!
  • Get information regarding Lab Notebooks
  • You'll need to get Adobe's Acrobat Reader to view the many Scientific American articles for class . Using a Mac? Preview works great!
  • Electron micrographs of tissues and organs are being added. If you see a thumbnail of one, click on it to open that image in a new window to view it and gain new info!
cuboidal epithelium

Class lectures and much of the material in this web site is from the following textbooks: "Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology" by John Holt, published by WCB; "Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology", by Seeley, Stephens and Tate, published by MYB; "Modern Physiology", by Cornett and Grantz, published by HRW, "Human Biology" by Benjamin, Garman and Funston; "Fundementals of Anatomy and Physiology" by Martini; and "Tissues and Organs: a text atlas of scanning electron microscopy", by Kessel and Kardon, published by WH Freeman and Co.