Wheater's Functional Histology: A Text and Colour Atlas

by John W. Heath

Book Overview

Wheaters Functional Histologypresents the student with a resource of high quality photomicrographs and electron micrographs of (largely) human tissues along with a concise text appropriate for modern medical and other biosciencecourses. The microstructure of tissues is related to function and clinical significance.
The book starts with a section on general cell structure and replication. The second section examines the basic tissue types...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0443056129
• ISBN13: 9780443056123
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.0" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Great histo resource for studying

Wheater's is a great atlas that provides the visual context to understand histology. Short summaries accompany each photograph to outline key points; staining type, cell type, other features. The pictures at the end of each chapter were very useful for self studying.

"The Bible of Histology"

This book has superb illusrations. It tells you exactly what you need to know. It will not go off on clinical tidbits etc. It will tell you exactly what you need to know about Pseudostratified Columnar Epithelium, and nothing else. The authors write a concise and informative book. I cannot any fault in this book.

veterinary histology survival

Wheater's Functional Histology is a life vest in a sea of confusion. I am a first year veterinary student who was told that the best text for histology was the vet school's own published text. Ha! What a joke! The vet school's text has black & white micrographs and has a text that puts you to sleep within nanoseconds. Wheater's is a marvelous color atlas that is extremely user-friendly. Without Wheater's I would be totally lost. If you are entering vet school, make sure you purchase this book. Even though Wheater's Functional Histology is a human based book it is still superior to the black & white veterinary texts. The information is basically the same. Histology is histology afterall.

Histology made easy

This new edition of Wheater's features more quick-reference tables and diagrams, while still focussing on the relationship between structure and function of cells. The authors understand that not all students enjoy histology. It is designed to dip in and out of, and makes the time spent on histology slightly less tedious and more productive. The slides are of very high quality and more EM slides have been included than in previous editions. This edition is keeping up with the needs of students.Also included is a CD ROM of all the slides in the book and a programme to enable these to be arranged into tailored presentations. This can also be used as a random slide presentation to test knowledge.Young and Heath have improved an old classic, making this a very good buy for all with an interest (voluntary or enforced) in Histology