Human Anatomy, 9th Edition

Personalize learning with Mastering A&P.

Mastering^™ A&P is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to engage students and improve results. Instructors ensure that students arrive ready to learn by assigning educationally effective content before class, and encourage critical thinking and retention with in-class resources such as Learning Catalytics^™. Students can further master concepts after class through assignments that provide hints and answer-specific feedback. With a wide range of activities available, students can actively learn, understand, and retain even the most difficult concepts. A robust suite of online resources in Mastering A&P, including Spotlight Figure Coaching Activities and Dynamic Study Modules, allow students to interact with content from the book and learn more about the most difficult concepts.

• NEW! Ready-to-Go Teaching Modules are an instructor resource that help faculty efficiently navigate content and high impact resources for the toughest topics. A curated collection of before-class assignments, in-class activities, and after-class assignments are provided for ease of use. Instructors can incorporate active learning into their course with the suggested activity ideas and clicker questions or Learning Catalytics questions.
• IMPROVED! Dynamic Study Modules help students study effectively on their own by continuously assessing their activity and performance in real time. Here's how it works: students complete a set of questions with a unique answer format that also asks them to indicate their confidence level. Questions repeat until the student can answer them all correctly and confidently. These are available as graded assignments prior to class, and accessible on smartphones, tablets, and computers. New for the 9th Edition, instructors can now remove questions they do not wish to assign.
• NEW! Pearson eText is now optimized for mobile:
• Available on smartphones and tablets.
• Can be downloaded for most iOS and Android phones/tablets from the Apple App Store or Google Play.
• Seamlessly integrated videos and other rich media.
• Accessible (screen-reader ready).
• Configurable reading settings, including resizable type and night reading mode.
• Instructor and student note-taking, highlighting, bookmarking, and search.
• eText 2.0 mobile app offers offline access on iOS or Android phones/tablets.
• IMPROVED! The Mastering A&P Study Area features new, mobile-friendly navigation and offers students additional practice test questions, reading quiz questions, flashcards, Get Ready for A&P tutorials, and more. Revised reading quizzes, chapter test reading questions, and Critical Linking activities have been added.
• Spotlight Figure Coaching Activities bring interactivity to Spotlight Figures from every chapter in the text. These highly visual, interactive, multi-part activities include ranking and sorting questions.
• A Variety of Clinical Content includes Clinical Case Activities, whichstem from the story-based Clinical Cases that appear at the beginning and end of each chapter in the book.
• Additional Interactive Exercises include Bone & Dissection Video Coaching Activities that review the major bones and organ dissections and are supported with assignable activities that include hints and specific wrong-answer feedback; Art-Labeling and Ranking/Sorting Questions that allow students to assess their knowledge of terms and structures; conceptual Art-Based Questions; and a wide variety of Reading Questions that help students focus on key concepts in each chapter.
• A&P Flix^™ Activities for Anatomy Topics allow instructors to assign animations on difficult anatomy topics to test student understanding.
• Practice Anatomy Lab^™ (PAL^™ 3.0) is an indispensable virtual anatomy study and practice tool that gives students 24/7 access to the most widely used lab specimens including human cadaver, anatomical models, histology, cat, and fetal pig. PAL 3.0 features:
• A layering slider that allows students to peel back layers of the human cadaver and explore hundreds of dissections.
• An interactive histology module that lets students view the same tissue slide at varying magnifications, helping them identify structures and their characteristics.
• Randomized self-study quiz questions that create a new set of questions each time a student retakes a quiz or lab practical.
• Assignable Quizzes and “Lab Practical” Test Bank questions can be assigned and automatically graded by choosing PAL from the book/source drop-down menu in the Mastering A&P item library.
• Get Ready for A&P, 3rd Edition quickly gets students up to speed with helpful study skills, math skills, anatomical terminology, basic chemistry, cell biology, and other basics of the human body. Each chapter of this hands-on workbook includes a pre-test, guided explanation, interactive quizzes and exercises, and end-of-chapter cumulative tests. The Third Edition includes enhanced study tools and assessments in Mastering A&P and 10 Video Tutors that feature author Lori Garrett walking students through key concepts in chemistry and cell biology.
• Learning Catalytics^™ helps generate class discussion, customize lectures, and promote peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics. As a student response tool, Learning Catalytics uses students’ smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more interactive tasks and thinking.
• NEW! Upload a full PowerPoint^® deck for easy creation of slide questions.
• NEW! Team names are no longer case sensitive.
• Help your students develop critical thinking skills.
• Monitor responses to find out where your students are struggling.
• Rely on real-time data to adjust your teaching strategy.
• Automatically group students for discussion, teamwork, and peer-to-peer learning.

About the Book

• NEW! A new emphasis on using art more effectively informs multiple changes to layout and figure organization, helping ensure that students view and navigate the art more efficiently and effectively to enhance learning.
• UPDATED! Story-based Clinical Cases and Clinical Case Wrap Ups focus on commonly encountered clinical scenarios to help students learn about the types of diseases and injuries they are likely to encounter in their future careers. Updated Clinical Notes appear within every chapter, expand upon topics just discussed, and present diseases and pathologies along with their relationship to normal function
• NEW! Key Point mini summary boxes at the beginning of each section outline the key point for that reading, succinctly stating what the student is about to learn and will glean from the section
• NEW! Tips & Tools boxes give students simple analogies and easy memory devices to help them remember facts and concepts, and provide advice on how to differentiate and navigate difficult topics such as “Identifying Tendons and Elastic Ligaments,” and “Identifying Hyaline and Fibrous Cartilage.”
• Spotlight Figures provide highly visual one- and two-page presentations of complex topics. The explanatory text is integrated into the visuals so students can find everything they need to understand a topic in one place. The 9th Edition includes one new Spotlight Figure on the Sympathetic Division of the Nervous System (chapter 17).
• Additional, Unique Figures guide students through structures:
• “Side-by-Side” Figures provide students with multiple views of the same structure, typically pairing an artist’s drawing with a cadaver photograph taken by renowned biomedical photographer Ralph Hutchings. This approach allows students to compare the illustrator’s careful rendering to a photo of the actual structure as it might be seen in the laboratory or operating room.
• “Step-by-Step” Figures break down multifaceted processes into step-by-step illustrations that coordinate with the authors’ narrative descriptions.
• “Macro-to-Micro” Figures help students to bridge the gap between familiar and unfamiliar structures of the body by sequencing anatomical views from whole organs or other structures down to their smaller parts. A typical illustration might combine a simple orientation diagram (indicating where an organ or structure is located in the human body) with a large, vivid illustration of that organ or structure, a corresponding sectional view, and a photomicrograph.
• “Illustration-over-Photo” Figures bring depth and dimensionality to the page and ensure that the illustrated structures are visually proportional in size to the human body.
• Tables appear frequently throughout the book to help students learn and review, making the book easy to study from.
• Learning Outcomes on each chapter-opening page indicate to students what they should be able to do after studying the chapter. These Learning Outcomes are coordinated by number to the main chapter headings, allowing students to check their understanding by both Learning Outcomes and chapter topics. Additionally, the assessments in Mastering^™ A&P are organized by these Learning Outcomes, allowing instructors to assign homework, assess understanding, and demonstrate teaching results by Learning Outcomes.
• Concept Check questions ask students to pause and check their understanding of facts and concepts. They are located at predictable points throughout the chapter, at the end of each major topic, and the answers are at the back of the book.
• End-of-chapter 3-level learning system helps build student confidence and understanding through a logical progression from factual questions (Level 1) to conceptual problems (Level 2) to analytical exercises (Level 3). The variety of questions also gives instructors flexibility in assigning homework from the text.
• Mastering A&P references direct students to online study tools to help them prepare for lab and review key chapter material.