11.12 Adaptation Statement

This book is an adaptation of the Open Stax textbook “Anatomy and Physiology 2nd” (which can be found at https://openstax.org/details/books/anatomy-and-physiology-2e) and was authored in 2022 by:

Gordon Betts, Tyler Junior College

Kelly A. Young, California State University, Long Beach

James A. Wise, Hampton University

Eddie Johnson, Central Oregon Community College

Brandon Poe, Springfield Technical Community College

Dean H. Kruse, Portland Community College

Oksana Korol, Aims Community College

Jody E. Johnson, Arapahoe Community College

Mark Womble, Youngstown State University

Peter DeSaix, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Anatomy and Physiology 2nd  is licensed as CC BY 4.0.

The following changes were made to this chapter:

Added a “Louisiana Lagniappe” opener, formatted all headings and subheadings, added alt text for figures, converted existing “click here” or “read more” links to full URL or meaningful text hyperlinks, changed section/figure/table numbers from 26 (old chapter) to 11 (new chapter), and put all keywords in bold