Essential Clinical Anatomy, North American Edition (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)),   ISBN:9780781799157

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This is a great streamlined anatomy text that gives the key take-home points. The info is sufficient for most except of course the masters and PhDs in anatomy! The only downside is that, as of the date of this review, the access to the online book is not up and running yet (i.e. with the scratch code). I wrote to the customer service (thePoint) about this but have had no response in two weeks. So if you are buying this book to access it online be aware. Not sure when it will be ready.

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I found that the pictures were very helpful, but some of the text was hard to follow and more like an index that an actual paragraph.

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The reason that I loved this book is that while my classmates were slaving away attempting to read the entire Moore's Clinically Oriented Anatomy, I was able to get the bulk of the text read in a fraction of the time while getting the same amount of information. This text is made for students who still want a read (rather than bullets that you would see in a review book) but does not have unnecessary information that will not be on the exam.

While the BRS book is good for the shelf exam, this book is what I used for day-to-day lecture exams and it had great tables that condensed the information in an easy manner.

In addition to this book, I used netter for my large atlas and the big Moore book for the "blue boxes" (Clinical Correlations) because my professor really concentrated on those in his testing.

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This book came fast and was brand new! Thanks so much! It was a great experience!

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I switched anatomy classes and left this book and the teacher behind. Along with my new anatomy teacher, I found "Principles of Human Anatomy" by Gerard J. Tortora and Mark Nielsen to be MUCH better: includes Latin and Greek name origins, logically organizes the body by systems and not regions, includes a glossary, and has great diagrams. Buy "Human Anatomy Lab Manual with Cat Dissections" to compliment "Principles of Human Anatomy" and you'll be ready to tackle anatomy class.