Full Description
**Selected for 2025 Doody's Core Titles® in Anatomy/Embryology**
Offering a well-organized, straightforward approach to a highly complex subject, Larsen's Human Embryology, 6th Edition, provides easy-to-read, comprehensive coverage of human embryonic development for today's students. It integrates anatomy and histology with cellular and molecular mechanisms, focusing on both normal development and congenital anomalies. Highly illustrated with superb drawings and photographs, it features a strong clinical focus based on the most up-to-date scientific discoveries and understanding.
Contains new information on gene editing via CRISPr technology, organoids and the study of human disease, transcription factors and signaling pathways, and single cell sequencing
Includes clinical scenarios that describe prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of human birth defects and disease
Features a superior art program, online animations, and high-quality drawings and photographs throughout-ideal for today's visual learners. · Includes a strong clinical emphasis through the use of Clinical Tasters, Embryology in Practice, and In the Clinic sections
Provides additional information on mechanisms of development and research approaches and strategies to establish these mechanisms with In the Research Lab sections
Begins each chapter with an overview of main points as well as a graphical summary, with key terms listed in bold type
Covers the embryology information that today's medical students need to know for Board exams, clinics, and more, in a readable, straightforward manner
Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access 50 narrated animations, multiple-choice questions, and all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices
Contents
1. Gametogenesis, Fertilization, and First Week
2. Second Week: Becoming Bilaminar and Fully Implanting
3. Third Week: Becoming Trilaminar and Establishing Body Axes
4. Fourth Week: Forming the Embryo
5. Principles and Mechanisms of Morphogenesis and Dysmorphogenesis
6. Fetal Development and the Fetus as a Patient
7. Development of the Skin and Its Derivatives
8. Development of the Musculoskeletal System
9. Development of the Central Nervous System
10. Development of the Peripheral Nervous System
11. Development of the Respiratory System and Body Cavities
12. Development of the Heart
13. Development of the Vasculature
14. Development of the Gastrointestinal Tract
15. Development of the Urinary System
16. Development of the Reproductive System
17. Development of the Pharyngeal Apparatus and Face
18. Development of the Ears
19. Development of the Eyes
20. Development of the Limbs
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