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Comprehensive Textbook of Medical Physiology
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15 July 2025

This two volume set is a complete guide to medical physiology for undergraduate and postgraduate medical students.
The fourth edition has been fully revised and updated, and features new topics such as physiology of stress, physiology of yoga and meditation, brain death, glucose homeostasis and pathophysiology of diabetes; and body fluid homeostasis.
Each chapter begins with clearly defined learning objectives and features clinical boxes, schematic illustrations, line diagrams, flowcharts, and tables. Clinical cases and MCQs for each topic aid quick revision and self-assessment.
The book includes complimentary access to online resources featuring MCQs from previous examinations, reasoning-style questions, and more images, illustrations and case discussions.
The previous edition (9789356962897) published in 2023.
MEDICAL / Education & Training, Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences, MEDICAL / Physiology, Physiology
GK Pal MBBS MD (Physiology) PhD DSc BNYT MD (Alt Med) MD (Yoga) DSc (Hon Causa) MABMS FABMS FABAP FSAB FRSB (UK) FIABS FEFI FAPI
Professor, JIPMER, Puducherry; Former Director, AIIMS, Patna; Former Dean, JIPMER (Karaikal), Puducherry; Former Registrar (Academic), JIPMER, Puducherry; Former Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India
Pravati Pal MBBS MD MABMS BNYT MD
Professor, Department of Physiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India
Nivedita Nanda MSc PhD (Medical Biochemistry) BNYT
Additional Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India
Section 1: General Physiology
Section 2: Blood and Immunity
Section 3: Nerve and Muscles
Section 4: Autonomic Nervous System
Section 5: Cardiovascular System
Section 6: Respiratory System
Section 7: Gastrointestinal System
Section 8: Renal Physiology
Section 9: Endocrine Physiology
Section 10: Reproductive System
Section 11: Neurophysiology
Section 12: Special Senses
Section 13: Integrative Physiology