Equip your students with the 21st-century knowledge in A&P and encourage them to think like future scientists in the field.Human Anatomy & Physiology,12th edition will support your students' learning step-by-step, witha range of visual features, figures, and engaging writing style, alongside powerful interactive material with Mastering A&P.

1. The Human Body: An Orientation
2. Chemistry Comes Alive
3. Cells: The Living Units
4. Tissue: The Living Fabric

1. The Integumentary System
2. Bones and Skeletal Tissue
3. The Skeleton
4. Joints
5. Muscles and Muscle Tissue
6. The Muscular System

1. Fundamentals of the Nervous System and Nervous Tissue
2. The Central Nervous System
3. The Peripheral Nervous System and Reflex Activity
4. The Autonomic Nervous System
5. The Special Senses
6. The Endocrine System

1. Blood
2. The Cardiovascular System: The Heart
3. The Cardiovascular System: Blood Vessels
4. The Lymphatic System and Lymphoid Organs and Tissues
5. The Immune System: Innate and Adaptive Body Defenses
6. The Respiratory System
7. The Digestive System
8. Nutrition, Metabolism, and Body Temperature Regulation
9. The Urinary System
10. Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance

1. The Reproductive System
2. Pregnancy and Human Development
3. Heredity

• Chapter Roadmaps provide a visual overview of key concepts and how they relate to each other.
• Key Concept Modular Organization delivers core concepts in manageable chunks to help students master core material.

• Focus Figures walk students through complex processes using exceptionally clear, easy-to-follow illustrations with integrated text explanations.
• Draw questions ask students to draw a structure, annotate a figure, or create a summary table to reinforce concepts.

• Homeostatic Imbalance discussions alert students to consequences of body systems not functioning optimally.
• Clinical Case Studies with NCLEX-Style questions challenge students to apply knowledge to realistic clinical scenarios.

• Making Connections questions appear in every chapter (except Chapter 1), and challenge students to relate different concepts across body systems and chapters.
• Text recall icons guide students to review specific pages where a concept was first introduced.
• All End‐of‐Chapter Review questions reinforce the main ideas of the chapter and are now organized into 3 levels of difficulty based on Bloom's Taxonomy categories.

• 47 Check Your Understanding questions include an illustration as part of the question and require students to practice visual literacy skills.
• 13 New Summary Tables present key information and serve as “one-stop shopping” student tools.
• 31 unique In-Line Figures are strategically placed within the text to visually reinforce the text discussion. This innovation is the latest example of how the authors carefully integrate art and text, almost always presenting words and visuals on the same two-page spread so that readers can efficiently learn, visualize and remember concepts.