Before we are Born - Essentials of Embryology and Birth Defects. With STUDENT CONSULT. Includes access to unique animations!

Before We Are Born: Essentials of Embryology and Birth Defects, by Drs. Keith L. Moore, T.V.N. Persaud, and Mark G. Torchia, allows you to efficiently and quickly assimilate the most important concepts related to this subject. Concise and richly illustrated, this popular book delivers the embryology knowledge you need in a highly efficient, reader-friendly manner. You can also access the complete contents online at www.studentconsult.com, along with 17 remarkable animations, downloadable illustrations, additional review questions and answers, and more.

List of contents

1 INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
2 HUMAN REPRODUCTION
3 FIRST WEEK OF DEVELOPMENT
4 SECOND WEEK OF DEVELOPMENT
5 THIRD WEEK OF DEVELOPMENT
6 DEVELOPMENT DURING WEEKS FOUR TO EIGHT
7 FETAL PERIOD: THE NINTH WEEK TO BIRTH
8 PLACENTA AND FETAL MEMBRANES
9 BODY CAVITIES, MESENTERIES, AND DIAPHRAGM
10 PHARYNGEAL APPARRATUS
11 RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
12 ALIMENTARY SYSTEM
13 UROGENITAL SYSTEM
14 CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
15 MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM
16 NERVOUS SYSTEM
17 EYES AND EARS
18 INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM
19 HUMAN BIRTH DEFECTS
20 THE CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BASIS OF DEVELOPMENT

Product details

• Authors: Keith L. Moore, T. V. N. Persaud, Trivedi V. N. Persaud, Mark G. Torchia
• Publisher: Saunders
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.2012
• EAN: 9781437720013
• ISBN: 978-1-4377-2001-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 276 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 832 g
• Illustrations: Approx. 317 illustrations (289 in full color)
• Series: Saunders W.B.
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine