By Jeannette Naish MBBS MSc FRCGP , Denise Syndercombe Court MIBiol CBiol FIBMS DMedT PhD
2015 BMA scientific ebook Awards 1st Prize Award Winner in uncomplicated and medical Sciences class! An built-in method of instructing simple sciences and scientific medication has intended that scientific scholars were pushed to various easy technological know-how textbooks to discover correct details. Medical Sciences is designed to do the combination for you. in precisely one ebook, the varied branches of clinical technological know-how are synthesised into the perfect structures of the human physique, making this a useful relief to imminent the fundamentals of medication inside of in a medical context.
- Highly illustrated with transparent, full-colour line drawings and color photos.
- Information packing containers all through, giving extra particular aspect of study findings, drug mechanisms, etc.
- Clinical containers all through, demonstrating the scientific relevance of the science.
Interactive good points of the StudentConsult booklet (PIN entry on your print copy)
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5 slideshows
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34 try yourself
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2 guided tours
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6 slidelines
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435 MCQs (end-of-chapter quizzes and review bankruptcy in e-book)
- Eleven new contributors.
- Completely new chapters on Biochemistry and mobilephone biology, Genetics, The fearful system, Bones, muscle and skin, Endocrine and reproductive systems, The cardiovascular system, The renal system and Diet and nutrition.
- Completely revised and up-to-date all through with over 35 new illustrations .
- Expanded embryology sections with a number of new illustrations.
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2015 BMA clinical e-book Awards 1st Prize Award Winner in simple and medical Sciences classification! An built-in method of educating easy sciences and medical drugs has intended that scientific scholars were pushed to more than a few simple technology textbooks to discover proper info. scientific Sciences is designed to do the mixing for you.
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I a reaction releas es energy it is e xe rg o nic , and when it requires energy input to proceed it is e nde rg o nic . The products o exergonic reactions have a lower potential energy than their s ubs trates , and the products o endergonic reactions have higher potential energy. Reactions where products have les s potential energy than the s ubs trates tend to occur s pontaneous ly, whereas thos e where the potential energy o s ubs trates increas es require energy input. The key concept in biochemis try is that the energetically avourable reactions are us ed to drive the un avourable ones .