Encyclopaedia Britannica - Human Body PC

Discover how your body works.Enter the world of health and discover how people grow and develop, make their muscles move, obtain energy from food, transport materials within their body, and combat disease. Meet the virtual skeleton whose joints bend and muscle flex, or take an exciting virtual journey through the circulatory system, plus much, much more. This program presents a virtual museum with interactive exhibits and combines health issues, medical technology, historical events in medicine, and biological information.Contains written text, narration, photographs, sounds, full screen video segments, diagrams, 3-D models and simulations, offering a focused, interactive environment for exploring the health, structure, and processes of the human body.An activity centre that provides investigation ideas and tools for producing projects.An electronic glossary and a medical lexicon providing definitions of relevant terms and concepts.Direct access to external productivity tools - a word processor, a drawing program, presentation software, and a spreadsheet.Direct links to related Internet sites.