Preface
Welcome to the Thompson Rivers University 1692/1693 Anatomy & Physiology open textbook!
This textbook is a project under development by faculty and staff at Thompson Rivers University for use in the BIOL 1692 and 1693 courses. This text is our adaptation of another adaptation, that of the Biology faculty at Douglas College (BC, Canada), of the original OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology open access textbook. Our version reorganizes units and coverage of a number of topics is also expanded, either by importing content from the OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology 2e textbook, or written de novo.
Readers should be aware that the information herein is subject to change at any time as corrections, additions, or other important modifications are made. Current students at Thompson Rivers University should be aware that only the most recent version of this textbook will be considered by their instructors to be complete and correct.
The most recent version of the Douglas College adaptation (fourth edition), upon which the Thompson Rivers University adaptation is based, will remain accessible online at https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol120312094thed/, and the most recent version of the second edition of the companion textbook will also remain accessible online at https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol110311092nded/.
Additional information included in the Thompson Rivers University adaptation was obtained from the OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology textbook (2nd edition), which can be found online at: https://openstax.org/details/books/anatomy-and-physiology-2e.
Both the Douglas College adaptation and the OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology (2nd edition) are based on the original OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology textbook, freely and perpetually available online at http://cnx.org/content/col11496/latest/. The original adaptations of that OpenStax textbook for Douglas College are accessible online at https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol11031109/ and https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol12031209/.
About this Resource
Customization
The content of this textbook is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) license, which means that you can distribute, remix, and build upon the content, as long as you provide attribution to its content contributors.
Errata
Since this textbook is primarily web based, updates can be made ‘live’ when deemed pedagogically necessary. If you have a correction to suggest, please submit it by email for review to Dr. David Kabelik, whose current contact information can be obtained from the Biological Sciences faculty page of the Thompson Rivers University website: https://www.tru.ca/science/departments/biology/faculty.html.
About Anatomy and Physiology
Unit 1: Sensory Systems
Unit 2: The Endocrine System
Unit 3: Reproduction and Development
Unit 4: Human Genetics
Unit 5: The Heart
Unit 6: Blood Vessels and Circulation
Unit 7: Blood
Unit 8: The Lymphatic System, Resistance & Immunity
Unit 9: The Respiratory System
Unit 10: The Digestive System
Unit 11: Fluids & Electrolytes
Unit 12: Cellular Respiration and Energy Metabolism
Unit 13: The Urinary System
Glossary
Appendix I: Anatomical Prefixes and Suffixes
About the Authors
Thompson Rivers University
Editors
David Kabelik
Contributing Authors
David Kabelik
Douglas College
Editors
Jennifer Barker
Casper De Villiers
Todd Harper
Contributing Authors
Jennifer Barker
Jessie Clasen
Reyniel Cruz-Aguado
Casper De Villiers
Luis R. Gonzalez-Torres
Leon J. Guppy
Todd Harper
Sarwat Jamil
Shamsa Jessa
Weissy Lee
Elinor Matheson
Rosemary Oh-McGinnis
Maxence Salomon
Lynette Sigola-Baretto
Mike Silvergieter
Liza Sutton
Ryan Viveiros
Shelley Weisser
Cheryl Tautorus
Special Thanks
The authors of this textbook wish to thank OpenStax for the initial creation of a college-level open Anatomy & Physiology textbook, without which it is unlikely this edition would have been produced.
The Douglas College authors also wish to thank BCcampus for providing financial support for the development of vector-based images to accompany this textbook, for providing the instance of the Pressbooks platform on which this textbook is hosted, and for providing technical support to the authors. Finally, we wish to thank the remaining faculty members of the Biology Department for their valuable input into the content and organization of this textbook, Sara McKinnon for creating the section on lever systems and its associated diagrams, and Zoir Amirdad for creating many of the scalable vector-based versions of the images found in this textbook and also available as separate auxiliary resources.
