ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY
Written by Richard W. Hill, Gordon A. Wyse
Published by Harper Collins
in 1989
ISBN: 0060428260
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ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY
Written by Richard W. Hill, Gordon A. Wyse.
Stock no. 571885
2nd.
1989.
Hardback.
Large format.
Very good condition.
Second Edition. A comprehensive introduction to the comparative animal physiology at a level suitable for upper-division undergraduate and beginning graduate students. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w charts, drawings and illustrations. xvi and 656 pages including index. ISBN: 0060428260. Spine faded, boards unevenly faded. Boards a little grubby. Text block browned. Some minor corner creasing. Front endpaper has a few staple marks else contents clean. Last page of index (page 655/656) is starting to detach.
Front cover
Contents
- 1. Organism, Environment, and Adaptation
- 2. The Internal Organization of the Animal: Basic Concepts
- 3. Energy Metabolism
- 4. Aerobic and Anaerobic Forms of Metabolism
- 5. The Active Animal
- 6. Thermal Relations
- 7. Exchanges of Salts and Water: Mechanisms
- 8. Exchanges of Salts and Water: Integration
- 9. Nitrogen Excretion and Metabolism
- 10. Renal Organs
- 11. Principles of Diffusion and Dissolution of Gases
- 12. Exchanges of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide 1: Respiratory Enviornments, Introduction to Respiratory Exchange, and External Respiration
- 13. Exchanges of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide 2: Transport in Body Fluids
- 14. Circulation
- 15. The Physiology of Diving in Birds and Mammals
- 16. Neurons and Nervous Systems: The Basis of Excitability
- 17. Synapses
- 18. Sensory Physiology
- 19. Muscle and Other Effectors
- 20. Control of Movement: Examples of the Organization of Nervous Function
- 21. Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Physiology
- Appendices