Atlas of Anatomy contains everything students need to successfully tackle the daunting challenges of anatomy. Complete with 2,200 exquisite, full-color illustrations, the atlas is organized to lead students step-by-step through each region of the body.

Praise 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. Teaching anatomy? We have the educational e-product you need. Instructors can use the Thieme Teaching Assistant: Anatomy to download and easily import 2,000+ full-color illustrations to enhance presentations, course materials, and handouts.

Publisher:

Thieme Medical Publishers Inc

ISBN:

9781604061512

Publication date:

May 2008

Length:

280mm

Width:

230mm

Thickness:

38mm

Weight:

2449g

Pages:

672

Illustrations:

2200 illustrations (approx.)

Illustrated:

Illustrated

Have you ever pulled out an atlas of anatomy to show a patient a tendon or muscle that is a source of his symptoms? Or have you referred back to your anatomy text from school to remind yourself of the relationship between structures? Are you a student taking anatomy? Then the newly published book from Thieme, Atlas of Anatomy, and its interactive website, www.winkingskull.com, should be on your reference shelf and bookmarked on your computer. The drawings appear to leap off the page in three rather than two dimensions... I was blown away by the website... It is engagingly interactive...highly recommend[ed].--ADVANCE for Physical Therapists and PT Assistants

[Five stars] A brilliant masterpiece, filled with anatomical illustrations of great accuracy, appropriately labeled...aesthetically appealing...flows logically and systematically through the regions of the body...indispensable...for medical students...and medical residents in surgical specialties--Doody's Review

Of the several atlases that are available to the student, the [atlas] is one of the most useful and complete. Its 623 pages not only cover the gross anatomy of the human body, but also have extensive illustrations encompassing the peripheral innervation, lymphatics, arterial supply, and venous drainage of the various regions... Many radiographic images are included when appropriate to integrate the anatomy with the radiology. In addition, surface anatomy illustrations and clinical correlation boxes are generously sprinkled throughout the atlas to integrate this information with future clinical experiences. The completeness of this Atlas along with its presentation, clarity of illustrations, and content brings everything together for the student. This Atlas is indeed a powerful learning tool for students. It will be utilitzed by the students in gross anatomy and neuroanatomy, and by the clerks in surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, radiology, and neurology. Finally, this is an atlas t