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This popular atlas maps out the structures of the human body and puts them in a clinical context. It incorporates an unrivalled collection of cadaveric, osteological, and clinical images with surface anatomy models, interpretive drawings, orientational diagrams, and diagnostic images. The 5th Edition features over 50 new dissection photos, many of which are taken from a distance to make them more recognizable in the lab setting. It also offers a more streamlined, user-friendly design, more clinical tips, and a companion CD-ROM with seven anatomical animations.Displays x-ray, MR, and CT images next to corresponding dissections, teaching readers to recognize anatomic structures in diagnostic images.Helps readers differentiate between similar structures on specimens (ie. veins, arteries, and nerves) with interpretive drawings.Offers orientational diagrams that make it easier to relate the dissections in the text to real experiences in the lab.Provides an unobstructed view of the artwork by using a numbered labeling system, which also allows readers to self-test by covering up the key and identifying each numbered structure.Includes over 50 new dissections photos, many of which are taken from a distance to make them more recognizable in the lab setting.Features a redesigned page layout that correlates illustrations, headings, and labels with more clarity.Uses more distinctly color-coded chapters to improve accessibility.Makes it easy to locate dissection sites on real life models with 50 new 'locator' images (surface anatomy models). Adds 20 new clinical tips (300 in all) that are referenced with icons on each page and then listed at the end of each chapter.Moves the Systemic Review to the front of the book, adding a series of anatomical cross-sections.Offers a PC and Mac compatible CD-ROM with seven anatomical animations (hand, shoulder, knee, foot, hip, spine, and head & neck) in QuickTime format. Allows users to add and remove layers of skin, muscle, etc.rotate animations for a complete view from all anglesturn labels on and off to test recognition skillsexport images to their hard drivetest themselves with multiple-choice questions linked to each label as well as with a separate quiz functionlink to www.fleshandbones.com. Icons in the book refer readers to the animations at appropriate points.
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McMinn's Color Atlas of Human Anatomy is one of the most successful atlases of human anatomy ever published - well over one million copies have been sold worldwide in more than 20 different languages. Incorporating an unrivalled collection of cadaveric, osteological and clinical images, McMinn's atlas maps out the structures of the human body and puts these structures into a clinical context.The fifth edition has been carefully revised to improve the photographic content and thereby make this outstanding resource even more useful. Fifty new dissection photographs of stunning clarity have been added to the book. Positive user feedback has prompted us to add more Clinical Tips - there are now 300 examples of these in the book to highlight the clinical correlates of the anatomic structures. The layout of every single page has been revised - and each chapter is colour-coded - to ensure maximum accessibility. More orientational diagrams and helpful line artworks have been added, extra surface anatomy and imaging have been included. The font size has been increased to ensure optimal readability.McMinn's Color Atlas of Human Anatomy remains an outstanding guide to the human body, ideal for exam preparation, self-study and as a primer for laboratory work.STOP PRESS! McMinn's 5/E will now include a free PC and Mac compatible CD developed by Primal Pictures with seven stunning anatomical animations in QuickTime: Hand, Shoulder, Knee, Foot, Hip, Spine and Head & Neck. The functionality will include the ability to:Add and remove layers of skin, muscle, etc, from the animationsRotate animations completely for complete view from all anglesActivate labels on/off to test recognition skillsExport images to hard driveSelf testing - user selects an image and is presented with a multi-choice question on the highlighted label; there is also a separate quiz functionLink to www.fleshandbones.comDisplays x-ray, MR, and CT images next to corresponding dissections, teaching readers to recognize anatomic structures in diagnostic images.Helps readers differentiate between similar structures on specimens (ie. veins, arteries, and nerves) with interpretive drawings.Offers orientational diagrams that make it easier to relate the dissections in the text to real experiences in the lab.Provides an unobstructed view of the artwork by using a numbered labeling system, which also allows readers to self-test by covering up the key and identifying each numbered structure.
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