

For example, Chapter 10, The Muscular System, reduces the number of muscles presented, such as some of the skeletal muscles. The detail in some discussions has been reduced. The Axial Skeleton (Chapter 7) and The Appendicular Skeleton (Chapter 8) have been combined into one chapter, The Skeleton (Chapter 7), and Neural Integration I (Chapter 15) and Neural Integration II (Chapter 16) have been combined into one chapter, Neural Integration (Chapter 14). The 29 chapters in Fundamentals of Anatomy & Physiology have become 27 chapters in this slim version.

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