Knowledge Organization Template for an Organ
1.What is its definition?
2. What does it look like? (select various images from the available resources)
3. What is its "canonical" shape? (e.g. 3-D shape approximation, choose one: pyramid, cylinder, cone)
4. What are its surfaces?
First predict from the canonical shape of the organ the kind of surfaces you expect the organ to have.Then look at the interactive atlases or other resources and correlate anatomical reality with the idealized shape model. List the surfaces.
5. What are its external features (e.g. oblique fissure)?
6. What are its parts (e.g. upper lobe, parenchyma) ?
Why are they named as they are?
List all possible parts, regardless of partition (see next question).
7. Provide more detail about the parts listed in question 6.
Is
there more than one way to partition the parts of this organ? If so, give
two such partitions of the organ by dividing
the parts list in question
6 into two parts. Describ your
rationale for creating these partitions.
Are some parts of the organ also shared with other organs? If so, which ones and what are they shared with?
7. What is the organ a part of?
Which organ system (e.g. digestive, nervous)?
Which body part (e.g. hand, upper limb)?
8. Where is it located? (e.g. abdomen, skull)
9.What is it connected with (to)?
Where?
10. What anatomical structures are adjacent to it?
11. What supplies it with blood? (This is tricky for the lungs and the heart)
12. What drains blood from it?
13. What innervates it?
14. What does it do? How does it function? (physiology)