Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology (Guyton Physiology)

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Access the complete contents online at studentconsult.com along with bonus resources such as image banks, self-assessment questions, physiology animations and more! Distinguish core concepts from more in-depth material with a layout that uses gray shading to clearly differentiate between "need-to-know" and "nice-to-know" information.

All topics discussed are relevant to daily practicing physician/scientist. One example is the important role of thyroid hormone on the growth and development of the brain during fetal, neonatal, and infantile periods, which needs to be emphasized and remembered because of its grave consequences resulting in cretinism. Figure 11-2 shows a single cardiac muscle fiber in four stages of depolarization and repolarization, with the color red designating depolarization. During depolarization, the normal negative potential inside the fiber reverses and becomes slightly positive inside and negative outside. Muscle Blood Flow and Cardiac Output During Exercise; the Coronary Circulation and Ischemic Heart Disease Principles of Gas Exchange; Diffusion of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Through the Respiratory Membrane Learn and remember vital concepts easily thanks to short, easy-to-read, masterfully edited chapters and a user-friendly full-color design.

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Arthur C. Guyton’s writing style always kept the tone of a teacher talking to his students. I had the privilege of working closely with Dr. Guyton for almost 30 years and the honor of helping him with the ninth and tenth editions. For the eleventh edition, I have the same goal as in previous editions: to explain, in language easily understood by students, how the different cells, tissues, and organs of the human body work together to sustain life. This task has been challenging and exciting because our growing knowledge of physiology continues to unravel new mysteries of bodily functions. Many new techniques have been developed for learning about molecular and cellular physiology. We can increasingly present the principles of physiology in the terminology of the physical and molecular sciences rather than simply in a series of separate and inexplicable biological phenomena. This change is welcome, but it also makes reviewing each chapter a must, grasp a need. In this edition, I have tried to maintain the same unified organization of the text that has been helpful to students in the past and to ensure that the book is comprehensive enough that students wish to use it in later life as a basis for their professional studies careers. I hope this textbook conveys the majesty of the human body and its many functions and encourages students to study physiology throughout their careers. To be a great Physician/Scientist, one needs to have a profound knowledge of the human physiology. This great classic textbook of medical physiology is a must to have by any practicing physician and enthusiastic scientist no matter what field of medicine or science one is engaged in. Focuses on core material and how the body maintains homeostasis to remain healthy, emphasizing the important principles that will aid in later clinical decision making. Role of the Kidneys in Long-Term Control of Arterial Pressure and in Hypertension: The Integrated System for Aterial Pressure Regulation Includes online access to interactive figures, new audio of heart sounds, animations, self-assessment questions, and more.

Urine Concentration and Dilution; Regulation of Extracellular Fluid Osmolarity and Sodium Concentration Professor John Hall contributed to the ninth and tenth editions of this textbook, and after the unprecedented death of Dr. Guyton in 2003, Dr. Hall resumed the responsibility of continuing the same trend and updating this great book since 2006. Muscle Blood Flow and Cardiac Output ­During Exercise; the Coronary Circulation and Ischemic Heart Disease Offers a clinically oriented perspective written with the clinical and preclinical student in mind, bridging basic physiology with pathophysiology. The normal ECG (see Figure 11-1) is composed of a P wave, a QRS complex, and a T wave. The QRS complex is often, but not always, three separate waves: the Q wave, the R wave, and the S wave. The P wave is caused by electrical potentials generated when the atria depolarize before an atrial contraction begins. The QRS complex is caused by potentials generated when the ventricles depolarize before contraction—that is, as the depolarization wave spreads through the ventricles. Therefore, both the P wave and the components of the QRS complex are depolarization waves. The T wave is caused by potentials generated as the ventricles recover from depolarization. This process normally occurs in ventricular muscle 0.25 to 0.35 seconds after depolarization. The T wave is known as a repolarization wave. Thus, the ECG is composed of both depolarization and repolarization waves. The principles of depolarization and repolarization are discussed in Chapter 5. The distinction between depolarization waves and repolarization waves is so important in electrocardiography that further clarification is necessary.

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