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ANATOMY, HISTOLOGY AND EMBRYOLOGY
First Semester
Department of Human Morphology and Developmental Biology
Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University
English Language Course
Anatomy: Osteology, arthrology. Muscles, vessels and nerves of the upper and lower limbs. (The
topics of the lectures are: general osteology, arhtrology. myology; clinical anatomy of the vertebral
column, pelvis and foot). Skull.
Histology: Bases of the cell biology. Morphology of the cell organells. Cell biology of the important
membrane processes (exocytosis, endocytosis).
Basic tissues, histology of blood vessels, blood cells, cells of the bone marrow. Histology of the skin
and the mammary gland. cell biological base of the construction of the tissues.
Embryology: Basic principles of the human development, introduction to the clinical embryology.
Spermatogenesis, oogenesis, fertilization, morula, blastula, formation of germinal layers, axes, molecular
basis of right-left asymmetry, Hox genes, formation of the placenta, placenta. Factors inducing
congenital anomalies. Development of the limbs, trunk and the skull.
Credits: 9
Lectures: 3 hours/week
Laboratory: 6 hours /week Gross anatomy class: 4 hrs/week
Histology class: 2 hrs/week
Detailed weekly curriculum
LECTURE LAB
Topic Anatomy
Week 1
Histology
Introduction. Organization levels: cells, Anatomical nomenclature, body Microscope. Light and
tissues and organs.
axes, terms of orientation. electron microscopic
The cell in general. Methods in cell biology
research.
The cell membrane.
Bones of the upper limb.
Week 2
technic.
The nucleus.
Bones of the upper limb.
Simple epithelia.
Cellular organelles on the exocytotic Demonstration and disection of
pathway (ribosomes, ER, Golgi), secretion. the joints of the upper limb.
Cytoskeleton: Microtubules and cellular
organelles related to the microtubules,
their cell biological significance.
Cytoskeleton: microfilaments, intermedier
filaments.
Association of cells (cell adhesion), cell
connecting structures, Structure of
theepithel cell.
Cell biology of cell division (mitosis) and
cell cycle, chromosomes.
Week 3
SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY / FACULTY OF MEDICINE
Joints of the upper limb. Muscles
of the ventral surface of the
upper limb. Branches of the
brachial plexus innervating the
upper limbs
Stratified epithelia.
Glandular epithelia I.
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