Principles of Anatomy and Physiology¶
Tortora, G. J., & Derrickson, B. H. (2017). Principles of Anatomy and Physiology. Wiley.
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Primes¶
- Sharding
- Geographic jurisdiction: court circuits, school catchments, postal routes, and police precincts partition territory; a case, student, letter, or incident is routed by location, with the partition function being an address-to-jurisdiction lookup. Customer and account segmentation: large sales organizations shard the customer base by region, industry, or segment, each account team owning its slice end-to-end. Biological compartmentalization: organs shard physiological function (kidneys filter, liver detoxifies, lungs exchange gas), and within an organ cells shard further (nephrons handle disjoint blood volumes), with anatomical position and blood-flow routing as the partition function.
This sourceEach kidney contains ~1 million nephrons, the functional units that independently filter disjoint blood volumes — organs and nephrons partitioning physiological work, with fault isolation, supporting the biological-compartmentalization-as-sharding claim.
- Geographic jurisdiction: court circuits, school catchments, postal routes, and police precincts partition territory; a case, student, letter, or incident is routed by location, with the partition function being an address-to-jurisdiction lookup. Customer and account segmentation: large sales organizations shard the customer base by region, industry, or segment, each account team owning its slice end-to-end. Biological compartmentalization: organs shard physiological function (kidneys filter, liver detoxifies, lungs exchange gas), and within an organ cells shard further (nephrons handle disjoint blood volumes), with anatomical position and blood-flow routing as the partition function.
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