The study of anatomy has changed enormously in the last few decades.
No longer do medical students have to spend long hours in the dissecting
room searching fruitlessly for the otic ganglion or tracing the small
arteries that form the anastomosis round the elbow joint.
They now
need to know only the basic essentials of anatomy with particular
emphasis on their clinical relevance and this is a change that is long
overdue.
However, students still have examinations to pass and in this
book the authors, a surgeon and an anatomist, have tried to provide a
means of rapid revision without any frills. To this end, the book follows
the standard format of the at a Glance series and is arranged in short,
easily digested chapters, written largely in note form, with the appropriate
illustrations on the facing page.
Where necessary, clinical applications
are included in italics and there are a number of clinical
illustrations. We thus hope that this book will be helpful in revising and
consolidating the knowledge that has been gained from the dissecting
room and from more detailed and explanatory textbooks.
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