Anatomy & Physiology

Student nurse in grey scrubs using an anatomical urinary system model to explain kidney and bladder anatomy in a clinical learning setting.

The Urinary Tract: From Kidney to Bladder

Follow urine from the kidney through the ureters, bladder and urethra, and learn how urinary anatomy and bladder control connect to retention, catheter drainage and everyday nursing assessment.

The Urinary Tract: From Kidney to Bladder

Follow urine from the kidney through the ureters, bladder and urethra, and learn how urinary anatomy and bladder control connect to retention, catheter drainage and everyday nursing assessment.

Respectful illustration of a hand with an additional little finger

Why Are Some People Born With Extra Fingers?

What polydactyly is, why it happens and how treatment depends on the structure and function of the extra digit.

Why Are Some People Born With Extra Fingers?

What polydactyly is, why it happens and how treatment depends on the structure and function of the extra digit.

The Spine: How Structure, Movement and Nerve Protection Work Together

The Spine: How Structure, Movement and Nerve Pr...

Understand how the vertebrae, spinal curves, discs, facet joints, ligaments, muscles and vertebral canal work together, and use that anatomy to make sense of radiating pain, altered sensation, weakness and...

The Spine: How Structure, Movement and Nerve Pr...

Understand how the vertebrae, spinal curves, discs, facet joints, ligaments, muscles and vertebral canal work together, and use that anatomy to make sense of radiating pain, altered sensation, weakness and...

Parathyroid glands with kidney, intestine and bone representing calcium homeostasis

Parathyroid Hormone and Vitamin D: Keeping Calc...

Follow calcium homeostasis from ionised calcium sensing at the parathyroid glands through PTH, renal handling, vitamin D activation, intestinal absorption and bone remodelling, then use the feedback loop to understand...

Parathyroid Hormone and Vitamin D: Keeping Calc...

Follow calcium homeostasis from ionised calcium sensing at the parathyroid glands through PTH, renal handling, vitamin D activation, intestinal absorption and bone remodelling, then use the feedback loop to understand...

Clinical illustration of healthy liver tissue regenerating after surgery

Can the Human Liver Regenerate? What That Reall...

The liver can restore functional mass after injury or surgery, but regeneration has limits and is not the same as growing a new organ.

Can the Human Liver Regenerate? What That Reall...

The liver can restore functional mass after injury or surgery, but regeneration has limits and is not the same as growing a new organ.

Medical illustration showing a healthy appendix attached to the caecum

Is the Appendix Really Useless? Modern Science ...

What current research suggests about the appendix, including immune tissue and a possible role in the gut microbiome.

Is the Appendix Really Useless? Modern Science ...

What current research suggests about the appendix, including immune tissue and a possible role in the gut microbiome.