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Open Stax: Bone Formation and Development
This learning module explains bone formation and development. Learn about cartiage, intramembranous ossification, endochondral ossification and bone remodeling.
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Open Stax: Bones of the Upper Limb
Learn here about the bones of the upper limb. The upper limb is divided into three regions. These consist of the arm, located between the shoulder and elbow joints; the forearm, which is between the elbow and wrist joints; and the hand,...
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Open Stax: Bones of the Lower Limb
Learn here all about the bones that make up the lower limb: the thigh, leg and foot.
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Open Stax: Classification of Joints
This site provides information regarding the classification of joints. A joint, also called an articulation, is any place where adjacent bones or bone and cartilage come together to form a connection.
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Open Stax: Anatomy of Selected Synovial Joints
This site examines the anatomy of selected synovial joints of the body.
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Open Stax: Axial Muscles of the Head, Neck, and Back
The skeletal muscles are divided into two categories: the axial, muscles of the trunk and head, and the appendicular, muscles of the arms and legs. Learn here all about the axial muscles.
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Open Stax: Axial Muscles of the Abdominal Wall and Thorax
It is a complex job to balance the body on two feet and walk upright. Learn here all about the axial muscles of the abdominal wall and thorax.
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Open Stax: Appendicular Muscles of the Pelvic Girdle and Lower Limbs
This site provides interactive information regarding the appendicular muscles of the pelvic girdle and lower limbs.
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Open Stax: Basic Structure and Function of the Nervous System
Learn here about the basic structure and function of the nervous system.
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Open Stax: Anatomy and Physiology: Homeostatic Regulation of Vascular System
Students can learn about the homeostatic regulation of the vascular system, and find out how exercise affects it.
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Open Stax: Anatomy and Physiology:diseases Depressed/overactive Immune Response
This section is about how the immune system goes wrong. When it goes haywire, and becomes too weak or too strong, it leads to a state of disease. The factors that maintain immunological homeostasis are complex and incompletely understood.
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Open Stax: Anatomy and Physiology: Tubular Reabsorption
Lists specific transport mechanisms occurring in different parts of the nephron, including active transport, osmosis, facilitated diffusion, and passive electrochemical gradients.
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Open Stax: u.s. History 1968 1980: Identity Politics in a Fractured Society
Discussion of identity politics during the 1960s and 1970s in which underrepresented and marginalized groups organized to fight discrimination and challenge the established political and social culture. Page contains questions for...
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Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: An Overview of the Endocrine System
Find out about the types of intercellular communication, their importance, mechanisms, and effects. Then continue on to the next sections to learn about hormones, the different endocrine glands, the organs with secondary endocrine...
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Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Autonomic Reflexes and Homeostasis
Looks at how to determine the effect of the autonomic nervous system on the regulation of the various organ systems on the basis of the signaling molecules involved.
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Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Central Control
Students investigate the role of higher centers of the brain in autonomic regulation.
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Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Drugs That Affect the Autonomic System
Students learn about the classes of pharmaceuticals that interact with the autonomic nervous system, and then relate the consequences of nicotine abuse with respect to autonomic control of the cardiovascular system.
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Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Gonadal and Placental Hormones
Students will identify the most important hormones produced by the testes and ovaries, and learn about the hormones produced by the placenta.
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Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Acid Base Balance
Students learn how buffer systems in the body - the respiratory and the renal - affect the blood pH.
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Open Stax: A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson
By reading this section of a chapter on "Jacksonian Democracy," students will be able to explain and illustrate the new style of American politics in the 1820s, describe the policies of John Quincy Adams's presidency and explain the...
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Open Stax: A Vibrant Capitalist Republic
By reading this section of a chapter on "Industrial Transformation in the North," students will be able to explain the process of selling western land, discuss the causes of the Panic of 1819, and identify key American innovators and...
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Open Stax: Physics: Acceleration
In this interactive module, students will define and distinguish between instantaneous acceleration, average acceleration, and deceleration. They will also calculate acceleration given initial time, initial velocity, final time, and...
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Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Accessory Structures of the Skin
Learn here about the accessory structures of the skin, including, hair, nails, sweat glands, and sebaceous glands.
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Open Stax: Physics: Problem Solving Strategies
In the following interactive students will begin to understand and apply a problem-solving procedure to solve problems using Newton's laws of motion.