LooseLeaf for Human Anatomy
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ISBN: 9781259285271
Author: Michael McKinley Dr., Valerie O'Loughlin, Elizabeth Pennefather-O'Brien
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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The brain analyzes the information and decides a particular response and transmits the signal of the response to the target organ through efferent pathway. The five lobes are Frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital and insula.
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