Insights in Physiology

795 Pages·2012·7.248 MB·English

by  Khanorkar Sudha Vinayak

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Sudha Vinayak Khanorkar
MBBS MD (Physiology)
Associate Professor (Retd)
Department of Physiology
Indira Gandhi Medical College
Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
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Insights in Physiology
First Edition: 2012
ISBN: 978-93-5025-516-2
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Dedicated to
My son Shantanu
who was killed
in an air crash in 2000,
while the writing of the book
was going on

Preface
On popular demand from students, the effort was made to consolidate my lecture
notes in the form of a book.
The book is useful for students as well as teachers. The teachers may find some
lectures lengthy and some short. This is to keep information regarding one subject
compact. The two short lectures may be combined together and lengthy lectures
may be split into two.
Utmost effort has been made to avoid mistakes; if some have crept in inadvertently
the author will be glad to correct them.
The author can be contacted at [email protected]
Sudha Vinayak Khanorkar

Acknowledgments
I am grateful to my students, undergraduates as well as postgraduates for their
continuous demand, which inspired me to undertake the work of compiling my
lecture notes in the form of a book.
My thanks are due to my children Dr Sonali and late Shantanu and son-in-law
Dr Deepak, who gave me their invaluable support. My grandchildren Anuradha
and Ajinkya motivated me to go on.
My friends encouraged me to complete the work. I thank them immensely.
Mr Janardan K Iyer and Mr Ritesh Parmar from Shree Govind Computers, Bopal,
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India did the computer work for me. My thanks are due to
them.
Lastly, I am thankful to the publishers, M/s Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers
(P) Ltd. without their support the book would not have seen the light of the day.