Human Anatomy, Fifth Edition builds upon the clear and concise explanations of the best-selling fourth edition with a dramatically improved art and photo program and expanded clinical coverage.

Recognized for helping establish the framework needed for understanding how anatomical structure relates to function, the text’s engaging descriptions now benefit from new and incredibly realistic bone art featuring more than 80 new figures, as well as all new muscle gallery art.

Select cadaver photos and photomicrographs have also been updated with images designed to make learning easier.

The Human Body: An Orientation, Cells: The Living Units, Basic Embryology, Tissues, The Integumentary System, Bones and Skeletal Tissues, Bones, Part I: The Axial Skeleton, Bones, Part II: The Appendicular Skeleton, Joints, Skeletal Muscle Tissue, Muscles of the Body, Fundamentals of the Nervous System and Nervous Tissue, The Central Nervous System, The Peripheral Nervous System, The Autonomic Nervous System and Visceral Sensory Neurons, The Special Senses, Blood, The Heart and Cardiac Muscle Tissue, Blood Vessels, The Lymphatic and Immune Systems, The Respiratory System, The Digestive System, The Urinary System, The Reproductive System, The Endocrine System For all readers interested in human anatomy and in understanding how anatomical structure relates to function..

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Authors: Elaine N. Marieb, Jon Mallatt, Patricia Brady Wilhelm

Publisher: Benjamin Cummings

Date: Jan. 5, 2007

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