Krishna Garg MBBS,MS,PhD,FAMS,FIMSA,FASI is ex-Professor and Head, Department of Anatomy, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi. She is the chief editor of BD Chaurasia's Human Anatomy (Vols 1–4); editor of BD Chaurasia's Human Anatomy for Dental Students, Human Embryology, Handbook of General Anatomy and BD Chaurasia's Applied Anatomy and Physiology for BSc Nursing Students and coauthor of Textbook of Histology,Textbook of Neuroanatomy andHuman Anatomy and Physiology for Diploma in Pharmacy Students.
<p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; letter-spacing: 0.7px; text-align: justify;">The section on practicals of physiology includes introduction to hemocytometry, counting of RBC, WBC; determination of bleeding and clotting time; estimation of hemoglobin; determination of blood group, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), heart rate, pulse rate; and lastly recording of blood pressure.</p><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; letter-spacing: 0.7px; text-align: justify;">Anatomy part of practicals for Semester II students gives the diagrams of digestive, respiratory, cardiovascular, urinary and reproductive systems: The structures in these illustrations have to be studied and learnt with the help of the text from the main textbooks. Histological slides of vital organs like heart, lung, liver, kidney, cerebrum, cerebellum, ovary, testis with three points of identification have to be studied. These histological slides should also be viewed under the microscope.</p><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; letter-spacing: 0.7px; text-align: justify;">Physiology practicals include study of diagrams of integumentary system, special senses, nervous system, endocrine system, family planning devices and pregnancy diagnosis tests, demonstration of general neurological examination, function of olfactory nerve, visual acuity, reflex activity, positive and negative feedback mechanism.</p><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; letter-spacing: 0.7px; text-align: justify;">Examination of different types of tastes, determination of tidal volume and vital capacity, recording of basal mass index and body temperature, demonstration of total blood count by cell analyser are also included</p>
