Knowledge Organization Template for the Lung
1.What is the definition of lung?
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 kinds of surfaces does it have?
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.
5. What are its external features (e.g. oblique fissure)?
6. What are its morphological parts (e.g. upper lobe) ?
Why are they named as they are?
Are some parts of the organ also shared with other organs?
7. What is the organ a part of?
Which organ system (e.g. digestive, nervous)?
Which body part (e.g. hand, upper limb)?
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)
12. What drains blood from it?
14. What innervates it?
The following questions do not need to be answered now. They lead to other areas of knowledge:
15. How does the organ come to be the way it is? [How does it develop?]
Embryology
(ATA)
16. What does it do? What do we have it for? [What are its functions?]
Function
17.
What are its component parts?
Microscopic anatomy