Basic Medical Sciences

This post is going to explain the basic understanding of the three basic medical sciences described in the previous post which are;

After reading the lines below, you will understand that what these sciences are about and what is the scope of these sciences separately.

Anatomy is the basic medical science which deals with the study of structure of organisms to describe as to how the organism is made up. Anatomy purely is a structural science and is concerned only with structural details.

Physiology is the basic medical science that deals with the function of organism to describe as to how the organism performs various functions and what are the mechanisms with which these functions are performed.

Biochemistry as the name indicates is the chemistry of living organisms. Biochemistry deals with the chemical basis of structure and function of living organisms. In other words biochemistry is the chemistry of anatomy and physiology.

The three most basic medical sciences which are the most important and necessary part of the medical education are;

All of these basic medical sciences are inter-related to each other and to understand the concepts of one of them the understanding of concepts of other two are very necessary.