Widely acclaimed for its clinical relevance and clear writing style, Langman's Medical Embryology provides a user-friendly and innovative approach to learning embryology. The revised eleventh edition presents medical and health professions students with a concise yet thorough description of embryology and its clinical significance, an awareness of which is essential in the diagnosis, and prevention of birth defects. It features outstanding full-color clinical images and photographs, end-of-chapter Summaries, Problems to Solve, and Clinical Correlates boxes.
A companion Website includes fully searchable text, interactive review questions and problems, updated Simbryo animations of embryologic system development, and PowerPoint slides for instructors.
Book Features
- Clinical Correlates provide information about birth defects and other clinical entities directly related to embryologic concepts.
- Full-color art program along with supporting color clinical images and photographs.
- General chapter on development includes coverage of molecular biology.
- Provides end-of-chapter Summaries and Problems to Solve.
- Organized into two parts: Part One, General Embryology, presents development of embryo chronologically and also includes chapters on placental and fetal development and prenatal diagnosis and birth defects. Part Two, Systems-based Embryology, describes the embryogenesis of each organ system.
Contents Part One General Embryology
Chapter 1 Embryology: Old and New Frontiers and an Introduction to Molecular Regulation and Signaling
Chapter 9 Skeletal System
New to this edition
Chapter 1 Embryology: Old and New Frontiers and an Introduction to Molecular Regulation and Signaling
- Clinical Relevance
- A Brief History of Embryology
- Introduction to Molecular Regulation and Signaling
- Primordial Germ Cells
- The Chromosome Theory of Inheritance
- Morphological Changes during Maturation of the Gametes
- Ovarian Cycle
- Fertilization
- Cleavage
- Blastocyst Formation
- Uterus at Time of Implantation
- Day 8
- Day 9
- Days 11 and 12
- Day 13
- Gastrulation: Formation of Embryonic Mesoderm and Endoderm
- Formation of the Notochord
- Establishment of the Body Axes
- Fate Map Established during Gastrulation
- Growth of the Embryonic Disc
- Further Development of the Trophoblast
- Derivatives of the Ectodermal Germ Layer
- Derivatives of the Mesodermal Germ Layer
- Derivatives of the Endodermal Germ Layer
- Patterning of the Anteroposterior Axis: Regulation by Homeobox Genes
- External Appearance during the Second Month
- Development of the Fetus
- Fetal Membranes and Placenta
- Structure of the Placenta
- Amnion and Umbilical Cord
- Placental Changes at the End of Pregnancy
- Amniotic Fluid, Clinical Correlates
- Fetal Membranes in Twins
- Parturition (Birth)
- Birth Defects
- Prenatal Diagnosis
- Fetal Therapy
Chapter 9 Skeletal System
- Skull
- Viscerocranium
- Limbs
- Vertebrae and the Vertebral Column
- Ribs and Sternum
- Striated Skeletal Musculature
- Molecular Regulation of Muscle Development
- Patterning of Muscles
- Derivatives of Precursor Muscle Cells
- Head Musculature
- Limb Musculature
- Cardiac Muscle
- Smooth Muscle
- Formation of the Intraembryonic Cavity
- Serous Membranes
- Diaphragm and Thoracic Cavity
- Formation of the Diaphragm
- Establishment of the Cardiogenic Field
- Formation and Position of the Heart Tube
- Formation of the Cardiac Loop
- Molecular Regulation of Cardiac Development
- Development of the Sinus Venosus
- Formation of the Cardiac Septa
- Formation of the Conducting System of the Heart
- Vascular Development
- Circulation before and after Birth
- Formation of the Lung Buds
- Larynx
- Trachea, Bronchi, and Lungs
- Maturation of the Lungs
- Divisions of the Gut Tube
- Molecular Regulation of Gut Tube Development
- MesenterieForegut
- Molecular Regulation of Liver Induction
- Pancreas
- Midgut
- Hindgut
- Clinical Correlates
- Urinary System
- Genital System
- Clinical Correlates
New to this edition
- NEW! Additional images included in the birth defects chapters to provide more visual examples and improve the usability of the chapter.
- NEW! Additional recolorization/replacement of line drawings (approximately 15-20).
- NEW! Continued replacement/addition of color clinical photographs/images.
- NEW! Glossary of key terms.
- NEW! Updated and new Problems to Solve.
- NEW! Updated information on molecular genetics.
Book Details
- Paperback: 385 pages
- Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Eleventh, North American Edition edition (January 30, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0781790697
- ISBN-13: 978-0781790697
- Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.6 inches