Summary: The final program recapitulates and reviews the principal messages of the curriculum as it summarizes the functions and designs of the body's major systems and organs and the methods by which they interact.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program shows how the cerebellum coordinates muscle activity and how position sensors in the muscles and joints and the balancing mechanism of the inner ear function. The motions of a water-skier show how muscles, joints, and organs link up. The role of joints is explained, and a look at the interior of a human knee shows clearly how lubricating fluid is produced.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program, one segment of the widely-acclaimed The Living Body series, looks at appetite and hunger. In some of the most dramatic interior film of the series, it shows the actions of a salivary gland, the swallowing reflex, and the powerful churning of the stomach as food is broken down and processed.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program covers the physical process of aging, examining the various body systems to see how and why they change as they age. It also shows that not all the changes in older people are inevitable and that some changes in the aging body can be slowed down or reversed.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Attraction, desire, and sexual coupling lead to conception. This program covers the physiological events underlying the process of reproduction.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006