4.1 Body level concepts

4.1.1 Gross and Microscopic Anatomy

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  1. Gross anatomy considers large structures such as the brain.

  2. Microscopic anatomy can deal with the same structures, though at a different scale. This is a micrograph of nerve cells from the brain. LM × 1600.

(slide credit: @OpenStaxAnatomy2020)

  1. credit a: “WriterHound”/Wikimedia Commons; credit b: Micrograph provided by the Regents of University of Michigan Medical School © 2012↩︎