(71 reviews) Author: Anne M Gilroy ISBN : 9781604060621 New from $35.00 Format: PDFPraise for this book:
Impressive...remarkably effective.--Journal of the American Medical Association
[Five stars]
A brilliant masterpiece, filled with anatomical illustrations of great accuracy, appropriately labeled and aesthetically appealing.--Doody's Review
Atlas of Anatomy contains everything students need to successfully tackle the daunting challenges of anatomy. Complete with exquisite, full-color illustrations by award-winning artists Markus Voll and Karl Wesker, the atlas is organized to lead students step-by-step through each region of the body. Each region opens with the foundational skeletal framework. The subsequent chapters build upon this foundation, adding the muscles, then organs, then vessels, then nerves, and finally presenting topographic anatomy for a comprehensive view. Each unit closes with surface anatomy accompanied by questions that ask the reader to apply knowledge learned for the real-life physical examination of patients.
Features:
- 2,200 full-color illustrations of unsurpassed quality
- Brief introductory texts that provide an accessible entry point when a new topic is presented
- Clinical correlates and images, including radiographs, MRIs, CT scans, and endoscopic views
- Muscle Fact pages that organize the essentials, including origin, insertion, and innervation -- ideal for memorization, reference, and review
- Navigators that orient the reader with location and plane of dissection
- A scratch-off code provides access to WinkingSkull.com PLUS, an interactive online study aid, featuring over 600 full-color anatomy illustrations and radiographs, labels-on, labels-off functionality, and timed self-tests
This atlas provides everything students need in just the right format, making the mastery of human anatomy eminently achievable.
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- Series: Thieme Anatomy
- Paperback: 672 pages
- Publisher: Thieme; 1 edition (June 3, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 160406062X
- ISBN-13: 978-1604060621
- Product Dimensions: 1.3 x 9 x 10.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 4.5 pounds
Atlas of Anatomy PDF
The Thieme (pronounced "team-uh") atlas teaches anatomy from deep to superficial. Each unit starts with skeletal structures and subsequently adds muscles, organs, arteries, veins, lymph nodes and nerves. At the end of each unit, a few topography illustrations put everything in place to give the reader a since of the big picture. Finally, surface anatomy is presented to train the reader to see the anatomy underneath the skin of a patient. Figure captions, muscle tables, clinical correlations, and radiographs are present and helpful, but perhaps a little sparse. Radiographs are present in Netter, but the others aren't, though they ARE present and abundant on the accompanying website, netteranatomy.com . The Thieme website winkingskull.com is comparatively weak, but most of its content is free if you register.
The organization of this atlas is consistent throughout and far superior to Grant and Netter atlases, perhaps because the illustrators and collaborators built this atlas from the ground up around this "deep to superficial" concept of teaching anatomy. There are more illustrations in this atlas than Netter and Grant, allowing the illustrations to focus on a few key concepts with each. (There are also schematics illustrating the path of lymph node drainage and autonomic innervation, the former being seriously lacking in Netter.) Sometimes when I was learning anatomy, I felt that Netter and Grant illustrations threw too much at me to learn in a single illustration. I would have LOVED having this atlas during those moments. But this leads me to a weak point in this atlas as compared to Netter (and maybe Grant): the "topography" sections that I mentioned above, with "everything" put in place, are inferior to the other two atlases.
What is in the book: This is a stand-alone atlas of Human Gross Anatomy. The pictures are all painted drawings, with some clinical images mixed in (CT/MRI). These images are scattered throughout the book at strategic places and highly complement the material being presented. It is actually a translation (and possibly relabeling) of a German anatomy atlas. The images are top-rate and finely detailed. It is hands down one of the best atlases I have seen. I was trained on the Netter series, and I like this one much better. I especially like that this book includes tract diagrams for the neuroanatomy section, something often missing from anatomy atlases. Even though the pictures are drawings as opposed to photographs, I feel that learning anatomy on idealized drawings is better than from pictures, where you are relying on the care of the prosection and the quality of the specimen to show the various structures and relations. Skilled drawings are much better for learning, and this book has those.
What it isn't: This is not a textbook! This book is an atlas, so do not expect text explanations. If you are looking for a good anatomy textbook, I would try Moore and Dalley's "Clinically Oriented Anatomy".
The weaknesses (why it earned only 4 stars): One of the weak points in the book is the labeling of structures. Focusing on the neuroanatomy section, which is my particular specialty, some of the labels mix terms or use archaic terms not commonly used anymore. For example, when labeling the brainstem, the different parts of the brainstem in the same figure are labeled with a mix of developmental and structural terms (for example: the midbrain is labeled by its developmental name, the mesencephalon, but the medulla is labeled the medulla oblongata.
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