ISO Anatomical Descriptions for Charting

[athomemom56]

Is there a website that helps with describing certain locations on the human body? Of course its easy to say "left hand, small or pinky finger, etc. But what about cuts, etc. that are located in various areas. I hope I am explaining this well enough.
Barbra

[cassioo]

General A&P describes sites bet if you did a yahoo search you could find an A&P site.

[grapejam88]

I look at it this way...fine to use all sort of fancy anatomical abbreviations, but be careful what you abbreviate. Also, of course, don't use slang. If your clinic/hospital/whatever has certain regulations on charting, follow those. If you have to go to court and try to read your writing, make sure you know what you wrote. I try not to abbreviate unless neccessary.

[athomemom56]

Actually, I am not talking about abbreviations. I am talking about descriptions of locations on different parts of the human anatomy. For example what if there is a small cut on the inner side of the Big toe. Things like this.
Barbra

[nursinghumor]

Hello Babra,

These are some of the better anatomy sites that I've come across. You can find any part of the body on these sites, just go down the list till you find what you're looking for.

Andrew Lopez, RN
http://www.4nursing.com

Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS):"The Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS) was founded to promote communication among teachers of human anatomy and physiology in colleges, universities, and related institutions; to present workshops and conferences (both local and national) where members can obtain information about the latest developments in the health and science fields; and to encourage educational research and publication by HAPS members."
http://www.hapsweb.org/
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Anatomy & Physiology Journals:
http://www.sciencekomm.at/journals/m...e/anatomy.html

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Anatomy:

American Association of Clinical Anatomists:"The American Association of Clinical Anatomists advances the science and art of clinical anatomy. It encourages research and publication in the field and maintaining high standards in the teaching of anatomy. Clinical anatomy is defined as anatomy in all its aspects - gross, histologic, developmental and neurologic as applied to clinical practice, the application of anatomic principles to the solution of clinical problems and/or the application of clinical observations to expand anatomic knowledge."
Lawrence M. Ross, M.D., Ph.D., Secretary AACA
Phone: (713) 500-8078 Fax: (713) 500-0621
http://www.clinicalanatomy.org/

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Auscultation Assistant:"The Auscultation Assistant provides heart sounds, heart murmurs, and breath sounds in order to help medical students and others improve their physical diagnosis skills. Since its creation in 1997, it has logged over 175,000 visits."
http://www.med.ucla.edu/wilkes/intro.html

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Human Anatomy and Physiology Case Study Project:"The Human Anatomy and Physiology Case Study Project (HAPCS) concerns cases that illuminate important concepts of human anatomy and physiology. A case study may involve a case history - the description of the symptoms and the progression of a medical disorder - but it doesn't have to. What is essential is that we address a real- world concern, i.e., a question, situation or problem, by using the knowledge that we have gained about human anatomy and physiology."
http://www.niagara.edu/~bcliff/

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The Digital Anatomist Project:"The Digital Anatomist Project is motivated by the belief that anatomy is the basis of all the biomedical sciences (including clinical medicine). Manifestations of health and disease can be regarded as attributes of anatomical structures ranging in size from molecules to body parts. Therefore our goal is to represent anatomy in a comprehensive and consistent way, which should meet the needs of all biomedical applications that require anatomical knowledge."
http://sig.biostr.washington.edu/projects/da/

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The Realism Anatomy textbook, Kasterstener Publications Inc.:"The Realism Anatomy textbook breaks new ground as being the first medical structural anatomy textbook in the world which is entirely composed of 3D generated content. This 450 page structural anatomy textbook is the next step in the evolution towards a truly interactive connection between theory and practical medical instruction. Demonstration images used below are actual pages of the Realism content, converted from 300dpi pre-production layouts. The demonstration images are composed of a thumbnail (which you see below), medium resolution(288x390...4x5" @72dpi), and the final full size resolution(522x710...7.5x10" @72dpi)."
Kasterstener Publications Inc.
18 Allison Cr. Red Deer, AB T4R2T9 (403)342-5330, admin@kasterstener.com
http://www.kasterstener.com/

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The Visible Human Project"The Visible Human Project is an outgrowth of the NLM's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is creating complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the male and female human body. The current phase of the project is collecting transverse CT, MR and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers at one millimeter intervals."
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visi...ble_human.html

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Wiley Anatomy Web site:"The Wiley Anatomy Web site provides a research and educational resource gateway for anatomists--including cell and developmental biologists, neuroscientists, evolutionary biologists, and those in other anatomic and morphologic disciplines. Presented here is essential information on Wiley's acclaimed publications in the anatomical sciences. Wiley publishes three of the key journals in the field as official publications of the American Association of Anatomists:"
Corporate Headquarters
111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774
Telephone: (201) 748-6000 Fax: (201) 748-6088
http://www.wiley.com/legacy/products.../life/anatomy/

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Human Anatomy Online - InnerBody.com:
http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html

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WebAnatomy, General College at the University of Minnesota:"WebAnatomy is an interactive quiz program that was initially designed for freshman anatomy and physiology students in General College at the University of Minnesota. The site is free to all users. Additionally, the site does not record or send performance data to anyone. Use the activities as many times as you wish; no one but you knows about your performance. There are no time limits on any activity. WebAnatomy is intended to be a very low-pressure learning activity. The images on WebAnatomy originate from three different sources. First, a large collection of non-copyrighted line-art; second, color images from a LifeArt CD ROM (which gave us permission a number of years ago to use their images as long as we "marked them up" with leader lines); and third, from McGraw Hill, who had me make a collection of WebAnatomy activities for an anatomy and physiology textbook."
Murray Jensen
376 Appleby Hall 128 Pleasant Street S.E. Minneapolis, MN 55455
msjensen@umn.edu
http://www.gen.umn.edu/faculty_staff...35/webanatomy/

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Body Parts:

Anatomy of the Heart, Organs of The Body:
http://biology.about.com/library/org...rt/blheart.htm

The Whole Brain Atlas, Harvard Medical School:"Normal Brain: NEW: Normal Anatomy in 3-D with MRI/PET Atlas of normal structure and blood flow Top 100 Brain Structures Can you name these brain structures? Normal aging: structure and function Normal aging: structure and function Normal aging: coronal plane Vascular anatomy."
http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html

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Gross Physiology of the Cardiovascular System...
A global analysis of the mechanical function of the cardiovascular system, including the determinants of cardiac output....
64 Pages Found, 3 Links Found, 1214 Score, http://cardiovascular.cx
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The Knee (Interactive):"University of Pennsylvania Medical Center Radiology Interactive"
http://www.rad.upenn.edu/rundle/InteractiveKnee.html

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Structure and Function of the Normal Lung, Cornell University Medical College:"General Considerations. The main function of the lungs is (rapid) gas exchange. This is accomplished by a well-coordinated interaction of the lungs with the central nervous system, the diaphragm and chest wall musculature, and the circulatory system. Gas exchange occurs in the alveolus where the thin laminar blood flow and inspired air are separated only by a thin tissue layer. Gas exchange takes 0.25 seconds or 1/3 of the total transit time of a red cell. The entire blood volume of the body passes through the lungs each minute in the resting state, that is 5 liters per minute. The total surface area of the lung is about 80 meters square, equivalent to the size of a tennis court."
Thomas A. Godwin, M.D., Department of Pathology, New York Hospital Queens
tagodwin@mail.med.cornell.edu
http://edcenter.med.cornell.edu/CUMC...spiratory.html

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Radiographic Anatomy of the Skeleton: Online x-ray images.
http://www.scar.rad.washington.edu/RadAnatomy.html

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Anatomy of a Tooth:"From the outside, a tooth looks like a hard, solid substance. But this cut-away illustration reveals that a tooth is really a complex system of specialized tissues."
http://www.endosolns.com/RootCanalTherapy.htm

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Structure and Function of the Normal Lung, Cornell University Medical College:"General Considerations. The main function of the lungs is (rapid) gas exchange. This is accomplished by a well-coordinated interaction of the lungs with the central nervous system, the diaphragm and chest wall musculature, and the circulatory system. Gas exchange occurs in the alveolus where the thin laminar blood flow and inspired air are separated only by a thin tissue layer. Gas exchange takes 0.25 seconds or 1/3 of the total transit time of a red cell. The entire blood volume of the body passes through the lungs each minute in the resting state, that is 5 liters per minute. The total surface area of the lung is about 80 meters square, equivalent to the size of a tennis court."
Thomas A. Godwin, M.D., Department of Pathology, New York Hospital Queens
tagodwin@mail.med.cornell.edu
http://edcenter.med.cornell.edu/CUMC...spiratory.html

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