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Summary: simple and organized text, but still it has some errors
Review: i've found some errors when i opened embryology class. i hope this erratum has found to be helpful.p208-p458 p215 Fig. 11.7B conus cordia --> conus cordis p232 Fig. 11.22A lower portion of the blue arrow should be anteior to that of red one. p281 Fig. 13.14B arrow pointing duodenum should be moved little upward p283 2nd line left --> right p345 5th line from the bottom 42 weeks --> 4 1/2 weeks p351 Fig15.6 legend mesoderm --> mesenchyme p375 17th line from the bottom .. oral cavity but after its rupture the primitive nasal chambers open into the oral cavity by way .. p387 Fig. 16.5C outer hair cell --> outer phalangeal cell inner hair cell --> inner phalangeal cell p427 Fig.19.18A Abducens nerve --> Trochlear nerve p429 Fig.19.20B medial aperture --> median aperture p455 Box lowest line vasculature --> musculature Kyeong Han Park MD & PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Seoul National University Medical College insitu@snu.ac.kr
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Summary: alot of Clinical correlations and concise text
Review: It is a good book for 1st year medical students because it uses a simple language and contains alot of medical correlations. It's easy to read and doesn't need much time. It is also very well illustrated.
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Summary: Makes a confusing subject even worse
Review: It's hard to believe that people love this book. It's our text for first-year embryology in med school, and it's pretty awful. More illustrations would make it better; defining terms before using them would make it better; better layout would make it better and less confusing (who on earth was the graphic artist that designed this thing?).
The Simbryo CD is marginally helpful; it has monotonous music (think porn-movie soundtrack) and doesn't have nearly enough detail on the particularly confusing stages of folding etc. The MacBaby software covers the early stages much, much better.
Strengths are clinical correlations and the focus on human embryology.
I hope to find a better book before our next exam.
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Summary: Every aspect is cover, but not in deeply.
Review: It's quite a GOOD book, i own it and i always find what i'm looking for. It comes with a lot of illustrations and CLINICAL CORRELATIONS (a very positive aspect) this is a MUST HAVE reference book, it covers every aspect of the General embryology, and then the special embryology of each organ and system. Always with usefull medical references.-
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Summary: The embryology text book of choice
Review: Langman's Medical Embryology is an institution - and with good right. Medical embryology is not necessarily an easy subject. The medical student will need all his or hers 3D imagination skills to understand how the human body is formed. Langman's is written in a clear and concise English. Often, when studying medical text books, you get the impression that the author has done his very best to make it hard to understand - just so you will know how clever he is. Langman's is not like that at all ! The illustrations are very well done and the scanning electron micrographs are simply beautiful. Overall, Langman's Medical Embryology is probably as close as we get to the perfect medical text book. For your information, I am a third year medical student at the University of Copenhagen.
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Summary: A Cloudy Picture of Developmental Anatomy
Review: The book is useful as suplemented review rather than a textbook .The book has many fatal disadvantages for people seeking a clear image of Embryology. One of them, it starts talking about new topics with new terminology without defining them at the beginning of the chapter and what is more is that it sometimes keeps on explaining a topic using these terms as if they were somthing you got along with for long time. Another Disadvantage, in some topics the sequence of events may be lost during reading because of the order of mentioning the info. Furthermore, the body grow as one unit and this book does not make the required integration between the different growing parts topics. Finding another textbook may be a better idea Man/Lady! if you do want a full picture of what 's going on. However, this book could be useful if u do not want to spend so much time on reading -being concise book- or if the exam u expecting does not contain high detailed embryology content questions .
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Summary: For Medical School and Beyond
Review: This textbook, now in its 8th edition is a classic. It is extensive and rather than giving a simple step by step account of development (although this is provided in nice tables at the front of the book) it encompasses a more scientific explanation than is found in other embryology texts. It is fairly wordy, but it is easy to pick out relevent information and diagrams are excellent, being numerous, well labelled and easy to understand. This textbook, which is both easy to understand and extensive makes it an excellent buy both for a medical student just beginning embryology, and later on when a more detail may be needed. The book has beautiful photographs which captivate the reader, and there are also nice clinical boxes which break up the text nicely and are also accompanied by photographs. At the end of each chapter are problem solving exercises for which answers are provided at the end of each chapter. This is the embryology textbook to buy. I wouldn't recommend any other. It will keep you company through medical school and beyond.
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