Defining Physiology: Principles, Themes, Concepts Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Renal Physiology /

• Main Authors: Cheng, Hwee Ming (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Jusof, Felicita (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Human physiology.; Human Physiology.

This first volume of the book covers 150 important words and phrases encountered in cardiovascular, respiratory and renal physiology, elaborating the concepts, principles and common themes around these words. It offers students a quiver of arrows to direct their thinking accurately in order to under...

Table of Contents:

• Heart as an Electrical Organ
• Heart as a Rhythmic Pump
• Heart as a Pressure Producer
• Pathways from the Heart
• Physiological Adaptations of the Cardiovascular system
• Mechanics of Respiration
• Alveolar-Capillary Exchange
• Oxygen Transport
• Carbon Dioxide Transport
• Control of Respiration
• Glomerular Filtration and Renal Blood Flow
• Tubular Function
• Sodium and Potassium Balance
• Water Balance
• Acid-base Balance.