Human Embryology

By William J. Larsen

Book Overview

The fully updated new edition of this acclaimed reference details the concepts and principles that underlie human development. Each stage is clearly described in a logical, step-by-step fashion,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0443079897
• ISBN13: 9780443079894
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: W.B. Saunders Company
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 8.3" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

A good book

It's a good book and the content is clearly presented. At the beginning, there is an introdutory part that summarizes the content of each chapter and helps the reader understanding. The pictures are very helpful and understanding them is an important step for the best knowledgement of the embrionary development. It's also important to know the molecular bases of the changes in the embrionary period, which is explained in some texts at the end of the chapters.

Excellent graphics

Although the text is dense, this book has the best graphics of the various embryo books I've used. The timeline for each system (heart, nervous, etc.) is extremely useful in trying to understand what happens when (one of the most confusing aspects of embryo for the beginner). I kept going back to this book when reviewing for Step 1, if I needed a quick answer or a good visual. I'd recommend using the free tutorials/animations available on the Indiana University website to supplement this textbook.

Great book, essential to pass embryology material

This book covers the basics of embryology including outstanding diagrams. In places, it has too much detail, but it is very well written and the illustrations (essential for learning embryology) are beautiful.

Larsen'Human Embryology

I am professor of Embryology and I like this book because it covers all the itens. This is an update book: It covers the molecular aspects of this beautifull science.