Focusing on the integration of embryology with clinical practice, this text provides essential information alongside high-quality case studies that highlight key principles. Designed for modern medical students, it emphasizes the relevance of embryology across various medical disciplines. The book features numerous illustrations to facilitate quick comprehension of complex concepts, ensuring a clear understanding of how embryology underpins safe and effective clinical care.
Extensively revised, this edition covers all aspects of normal and abnormal embryonic and fetal development, incorporating recent research and current clinical practice. It is designed for medical and health sciences students, providing a comprehensive review of a complex subject in a clear, concise manner, supported by lavish illustrations. Bonus online features, including multiple-choice questions and narrated animations, enhance student success. The text guides readers through embryo and fetal organ and systems development month by month and stage by stage, featuring full-color photographs of clinical cases and modern medical imaging. New 3D HD color-rendered images and reconstructions of embryos are included. Each chapter presents clinically-oriented problems with answers and explanations to facilitate discussion and learning, along with online self-assessment questions. The book features 18 exceptional color animations with narration to aid understanding of embryological development. Updated information includes annotations on molecular events in embryogenesis, essential for professional examinations, and enhanced clinical material with updated tables and Clinical Case highlights. It also covers significant topics like gene editing (CRISPR/Cas9) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS). An Enhanced eBook version is available, allowing access to the text, figures, and references on various devices.
Covers important concepts related to essentials of embryology and birth defects. This book delivers the embryology knowledge you need.
"This popular text makes it surprisingly easy to gain an in-depth understanding of human embryology. Engaging and richly illustrated, it examines all aspects of human development, emphasizing both basic concepts and relevant clinical problems. The book presents a week-by-week and stage-by-stage view of how fetal organs and systems develop, why and when birth defects occur, and what roles the placenta and fetal membranes play in development. The comprehensively updated 8th edition comes with access to the complete contents online via Student Consult, plus 18 phenomenal embryology animations, additional review questions and answers, and more."--PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE.
Translation of The Developing Human, 7e