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Looking at the bodies apperance
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Inspection
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Feeling a structure with the hands
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Palpation
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Listening to the natural sounds made by the body
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Ausculation
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Tapping on the body and feeling for abnormal resistance and listening to emitted sounds for signs of abnormalities
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Percussions
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Careful cutting and separarion of tissues to reveal thier relationships
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Dissection
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The study of more than one species in order to examine structural similarities and differences and analyze evolutionary trends
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Comparative anatomy
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Opening the body and taking a look inside to seee what was wrong and what could be done about it
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Exploratory surgery
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Methods of reviewing the the inside of the body without surgery
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Medical imaging
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The branch of medicine concerned iwth imaging is called
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Radiology
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Structures that can be seen with the naked eye by surface observation, radiology or dissection
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Gross anatomy
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Tissue specimens observed under the microsope (microscopic anatomy(
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Histology
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The microscopic examination of tissues for signs of disease
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Histopathology
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Study of the structure and function of individual cells
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Cytology
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Refers to fine detail down to the molecular level, revealed by the electron microscope
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Ultrastructure
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The study of how different species have solved problems. bases of developement of new drugs and medical procedures
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Comparitive physiology
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