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THE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE HUMAN BODY - VOLUME 3...continued

CONTENTS:

  • 27 Overhead-Transparencies, size 22 x 28 cm, comprising 75 colour pictures, mostly with several component figures (anatomical pictures, photomicro- and macrographs, nature photographs, human photographs, electron micrographs, X-ray photographs, drawings, diagrams, tables, scenes, test data and results). The colour pictures were prepared by university illustrators specialising in this field.
  • Sketch and work-sheets with semi-diagrammatic designs and texts. Teacher may take photocopies from the sheets and use for classroom work and tests.
  • Brochure with depictured explanatory comments for the teacher. All in strong plastic file with ring-mechanism.

Eye and Vision - Range of visible light in the electromagnetic spectrum - The human eye. Eyeball, eye muscles, eyelid, sagittal section - Human retina, t.s. detail view. Rods, cones, bipolar cells, ganglion cells, photomicrograph - Human retina. Chief synaptic connections, diagram - Retina, t.s. for detail of rods and cones - Orbital muscles of the eyeball - Optic pathways, optic chiasm, diagram - Retina seen through the ophthalmoscope. Central fovea, optic disc - Formation of an image in a normal eye - The eye as a camera - Accommodation for distant and near vision - Pupillary light reflex - Image produced by "normal" and astigmatic glasses - Eye with pathological turbidity of the lens (cataract) - Defects of vision: short-sighted and far-sighted eye - Image produced by an astigmatic cornea - Tests for colour-blindness. Red-green deficiency and blue weakness - Optical illusions by ambiguous information - Optical illusions caused by the influence of the surrounding areas - Optical illusions caused by non-conformity of rational interpretation and optical perception - Trichromatic triangle. Different combinations of three primary colours give all other colours - Spectral sensitivity of rods and cones (dominator system), three pigment colour vision (modulator system).

Ear and Auditory Mechanism, Sense of Equilibrium - The formation of sound waves. Areas of rarefaction and areas of compression caused by a tuning fork. - Anatomy of the human ear. Ear concha, external auditory canal, middle ear, internal ear - Movement of the eardrum, auditory ossicles, oval window and round window - Position of epithelia of the internal ear - Organ of Corti, diagram - Movement of Reissner’s membrane and basilar membrane. Stimulation of the hair cells by the hairs in the tectorial membrane - Broadening of the basilar membrane from the base of the cochlea to the helicotrema - Formation of damped waves in the membraneous labyrinth - Displacement of the membraneous labyrinth by the waves generated by sound vibrations - Amplitude pattern of vibration of the membraneous labyrinth for high and low frequencies - Detection of sound direction by the time difference between the entry of sound into the ears - Diagram of main auditory pathways. Acoustic centres in the brain - Function of the vestibular system.

Sensory Perception: Smell, Taste, Touch, Perception of Temperature and Movement - Section through nasal cavity and pharyngeal cavity - Location of the olfactory mucous membrane and respiratory pathway - Nasal conchae of human and deer. Microsmates, macrosmates - Olfactory and respiratory mucous membrane t.s. - Detail view of olfactory epithelium with sensory cilia - Tongue of rabbit, t.s. of papilla foliata with taste buds - Human skin from palm, v.s. showing cornified epidermis, germinative zone, sweat glands, diagram - Human scalp, vertical section showing l.s. of hair follicles, sebaceous glands, epidermis - Human skin with cutaneous receptors of touch, pressure and thermal sensation - Tactile hair, median l.s. and t.s. - Ruffini’s warmth receptor - Krause’s corpuscle, cold receptor - Meissner’s corpuscle from human finger - Back of human hand marked with warmth and cold spots - Sensitivity differences caused by touch-stimulation: excitation nearby or far away, weak or strong - Proprioceptors: muscle spindle and Golgi tendon apparatus. Conscious awareness of the position and movements of the joints.

Hormones and Hormone Systems - The human hormone glands, position, shape, size - The human thyroid gland, situs - Exocrine and endocrine glands, diagram - Thyroid gland, sec. showing glandular epithelium and colloid - Acceleration of tadpole development caused by thyroxine - Effect of thyroxine therapy on a child - Cretinism caused by insufficiency of thyroid gland - Relation between iodine and goitre - The parathyroid glands - Pancreas showing islets of Langerhans - Regulation of blood sugar level by A- and B-cells of the islands of Langerhans - Control of the blood sugar level by insulin and glucagon - Human kidney and adrenal gland - Adrenal gland, t.s. through cortex and medulla - Interstitial cells of Leydig, t.s., high magnification photomicrograph - Corpus luteum, t.s., photomicrograph - Castrated fowl, effect of castration on rooster and hen - Secondary sex characters in humans - Processes during the menstrual cycle - The anti-baby pill, hormonal contraception - Relations between endocrine glands, diagram - Location of pituitary gland and pineal body - Thymus of juvenile and adult person.