Customer Reviews

Anatomy of the Horse: An Illustrated Text

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DESCRIPTION
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This hard covered, third edition of Anatomy of the horse consists of 135 pages divided into 10 chapters. The text is filled with color templates and detailed illustrations. There are 3 authors and 1 contributing author.

PURPOSE
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This text was designed with brevity in mind. It focuses on clinically relevant equine anatomy using a large number of illustrations. The target audience is veterinary students and practitioners. This text is a welcome addition to anatomy texts. A firm understanding of anatomy is necessary for all aspects of equine practice, particularly surgery and radiology. The author has met his objectives with the material in this book.

AUDIENCE
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This book is targeted for veterinary students and equine practitioners.
However, it is a good reference text for anybody with a need to understand clinically relevant equine anatomy, including equine internists, surgeons, and radiologists. The authors are very well known for being authorities in the subject of anatomy.

CONTENT / FEATURES
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This text is a well rounded anatomy book. The graphics are exceptional. The book is filled with line drawings, colored templates, and radiographic images to highlight the anatomy. It is extremely helpful to have the origins, insertions, innervations, and function of the muscles graphically represented. The chapter on clinical and functional anatomy integrates basic anatomy with clinical concepts.This is particularly important for veterinary students as it helps to create the big picture for their future learning. The radiographs give the students a real world look at anatomy and provide reference films for practitioners. This book is complete in it's coverage while remaining true to the objective of brevity.

ASSESSMENT / COMPARISON
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This is an extremely user friendly anatomy text. The detailed color templates and line drawings easily demonstrate equine anatomy; making it an easy to use reference for equine anatomy.

All relevant information is concise and very well organized. The color illustrations depict anatomical relationships accurately. A very highly recommended text for the veterinary student.

I made a couple of purchases before getting this particular book and was finally satisfied with this one. Excelent detail on musculoskeletal system of the horse with bone landmarks and muscle origin and insertions, innervations and actions covered. Very useful text.

Just recieved this textbook! Very useful for both, students and vets. Clear text and diagrams, a lot of beautiful images. Surely a good choice to start learning horse's anatomy.

As a veterinary student, this is an absolutely fantastic resource, and will definitely be one of the "keepers" for the rest of my career. It is especially nice because instead of being strictly an anatomical resource, it also has clinical references of relevance. I love that this information is kept separate (anatomy in the front of the book and clinically relevant material at the back) because it doesn't distract you while you are studying the anatomy. The only reason this review is 4 stars is that the translation to English sometimes is not very clear. I would have given it 4.5 stars were that possible. My recommendation - get this book! I am also strongly considering getting the others two (dog and cow).

Having purchased several anatomy books, this series is by far my favorite. This book is beautifully and clearly illustrated. I would highly recommend it to anyone studying equine anatomy.