Porth Pathophysiology: understanding made easy, delivered however you need it. Porth\`s \`Essentials of Pathophysiology\` 3/e delivers exceptional student understanding and comprehension of pathohysiology. An expanded, robust and flexible suite of supplements - makes it easy for you to select the best course resources - so you can meet your student\`s changing needs. For both discrete and hybrid courses, the flexibility and power of Porth allows you to customize the amount of pathophysiology that you need for effective teaching and learning. Features: Updated! Understanding Feature... displays showcase key physiological processes and phenomena of a disorder through detailed visual representation. The process is broken down into its consecutive parts, which are presented in a sequential manner, to provide an insight into the many opportunities for disease processes to disrupt the sequence. Each part has a detailed illustration to aid the student. Updated Key Concepts Boxes: are designed to help the reader retain and utilize text information by providing a mechanism to incorporate text information into a larger conceptual unit as opposed to memorizing a string of related and unrelated facts. NEW! Revamped Art Program- 600 plus full color illustrations: Many designed for Porth texts. support the text and assist the reader in visualizing, understanding, applying, and synthesizing text content NEW! Flow charts: depict relationships of body and mediators of body function New! Flexible Supplement Suite: Study Guide, Online Course, 100 Cases, Made Easy Series Integration of content across the life span includes child, pregnant women, and older adults Understanding Physiologic Process feature focuses on the physiologic processes and phenomena, presenting them in sequential chunks for easier learning \`Clinical features\` provide the reader with an pictorial overview of clinical aspects of selected disease states End of Chapter Narrative Summaries End of Chapter Review Exercises for application and understanding Written to encourage reader to gain a conceptual learning, rather than memorize Brief text is portable and easy to bring to class In depth back matter glossary Initial Chapters provide a review and update of cell biology, genetics, microbiology, immunology, and the structure and function of body systems