Gross anatomy, region by region

7 region guides · first-semester PA

The PANCE files anatomy under body systems; your first-semester course teaches it by region, one dissection at a time, with a written exam and a lab practical at the end of each module. These guides are written in the course's language: for each region, what the written exam asks, what the practical tags, the structures everyone misses, and the clinical correlations that turn into clinical medicine. Each one links to the PANCE body systems it feeds.

The guides are the map; your lectures are the territory.

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Drop each anatomy lecture's slides into your Gross Anatomy folder and it comes back as flashcards and board-style questions you can group into a module and run as a timed module exam. The gross anatomy playbook is the weekly loop; the Level-1 anatomy vocabulary deck is the evening-before warm-up.

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Lectures you add from this page go into your Gross Anatomy folder in My Library.

AI-authored study notes, not faculty-reviewed and not medical advice. Verify every structure against your atlas, your dissector, and your lab instructors; programs differ in what they tag.

Foundations & anatomical language
Week zero — before the first dissection
Anatomical position, planes, directional terms, body cavities, the tissue systems, and the nervous-system wiring diagram — the vocabulary every later region is written in.
38 practical structures · Feeds: Musculoskeletal 8%, Neurology 7%
Peripheral nervous system
Week one — the wiring chart every region is written in
The functional-components chart — GSA, GSE, GVA, GVE and SA, where each soma lives, what it reaches, what it does — and the four spinal-nerve branches that carry them.
22 practical structures · Feeds: Neurology 7%
Drills:Diagram — Peripheral nervous system Chart — Peripheral nervous system Quiz — Peripheral nervous system
Back & spinal cord
First module — the body wall
The vertebral column, the muscles that move it, and the cord and nerves it protects — the first dissection in nearly every program.
33 practical structures · Feeds: Musculoskeletal 8%, Neurology 7%
Drills:Diagram — Back & spinal cord
Thorax
First and second modules — the thoracic wall, then the cavity
The rib cage and diaphragm, then the pleura, lungs, mediastinum, and heart they enclose — the region the PANCE weighs heaviest.
41 practical structures · 1 video · Feeds: Cardiovascular 11%, Pulmonary 9%
Drills:Quiz — Thorax
Abdomen
First module for the walls; second for the viscera
The anterolateral wall and inguinal canal, then the peritoneum and the gut, liver, pancreas, spleen, and kidneys — the region with the most named structures on any practical.
46 practical structures · 2 videos · Feeds: Gastrointestinal/Nutrition 8%, Renal 5%, Genitourinary 4%
Drills:Clock — Abdomen Quiz — Abdomen
Pelvis & perineum
Second module — the basin below the abdomen, and its floor
The bony ring, the muscular floor that keeps the viscera in, the organs of both sexes, and the one nerve — the pudendal — that the whole perineum runs on.
37 practical structures · Feeds: Reproductive 7%, Genitourinary 4%
Drills:Quiz — Pelvis & perineum
Head & neck
Third module — usually after the trunk and before the limbs
The skull and its foramina, the face, orbit, nasal and oral cavities, the pharynx and larynx, and the neck's triangles — a region organized almost entirely by the twelve cranial nerves.
124 practical structures · 7 videos · Feeds: Eyes/Ears/Nose/Throat 6%, Neurology 7%, Endocrine 6%
Drills:Chart — Head & neck Quiz — Head & neck

Before the exam: the whole-module review

Thorax, Abdomen & Pelvis Review · 12:57

The three regions of a first gross-anatomy module in one sitting — the structures the practical tags, the relationships the written exam asks, and the clinical hooks that tie them together. Watch it once the unit guides' drills are clean — it is the review, not the first pass. Nothing loads from YouTube until you tap Play.

Still to come, in the order most programs reach them: Upper limb · Lower limb. Each guide goes up the week before a typical module reaches it.

The guides are the map; your lectures are the territory.

Foundations & anatomical language

Peripheral nervous system

Back & spinal cord

Thorax

Abdomen

Pelvis & perineum

Head & neck

Before the exam: the whole-module review