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Clinically Oriented Anatomy, Fifth Edition

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I used Moore's as an adjunct to studying anatomy with Netter's atlas of anatomy. I found that the text was concise, lucid, and enjoyable to read, with pertinent and important clinical examples in the form of case presentations.

The illustrations, on the other hand, are from Grant's atlas of anatomy, and occasionally are confusing or downright obfuscating (the anterior and posterior triangles of the neck come to mind.) So I recommend reading the text, but referring to Netter's atlas when referring to pictures!

When I was in Medical Anatomy Courses, this book was my saving grace! If there is ever a time that you do not understand what the lecturer is saying, Moore will have a good section of text on the topic. The best thing to do, is go to that section-- ex: Muscles of the Neck--- and learn all the muscles names, Origins and Insertions, which ones are being used in which motion, the nerves that inervate them, to what level of the spine, the arteries and where they come from, the veins and where they go to, etc, etc... Moore will give clinical examples too. If someone cannot move their chin upward, which muscle or nerve might be effected etc...

Unlike Netter's and Gray's Anatomy texts, which are praised for their illustrations and details... Moore's emphasis is verbal (not visual). The pictures are more general, cartoonish, not like a cadaver. Many students did not appreciate this book for that reason, it seemed too wordy to them. That is quite understandable during the rigorous schedule of Medical Training. There were many times I did not have time to read it as much as I would have liked. There are times when memorization is all you can do. However, if one does take the time to read Moore, they will surely remember the details of the Anatomy Structures very well.

This book would be EXCELLENT for any pre-medical students the summer before entering Medical School. I wish I could go back in time and do that myself. Anatomy lecture and Anatomy Lab is one of the more challenging subjects in Graduate level programs. It is required that you know a great volume of new terms and structures in infinite detail.

Good Luck, and Happy Anatomy Reading!

I thoroughly enjoyed studying anatomy with the Moore's book. The illustrations are great--I especially found the individual drawings of the leg and arm muscles helpful, and the 3-D drawings of the pelvic region helped me to better visualize this complex area. I was able to study most of the time from Moore and only had to use the Color Atlas of Anatomy as a reference.

The text was clearly written and very detailed. At times, it was more detailed than my first year anatomy class, but I was able to skip or skim these sections. I don't think I ever found Moore to be lacking in information.

I found the boxes highlighting attachments, function, or distribution for nerves, vessels, and muscles to be very helpful. They proved to be a quick reference.

Finally, the blue boxes with clinical information made anatomy so much more interesting. I learned many relevant facts and applied, clinical anatomy.

This is my favorite anatomy textbook for many reasons. When I first took an anatomy class I started off being very excited about it. After what seemed like months of lectures and reading on the chemistry of water, lipid bilayers and other basic bio concepts we started in on real anatomy. By that time however I was too bored to care anymore and I had lost whatever initiative I'd had to learn the stuff. I love the fact that this book gets right into anatomy. I'm not saying the basic biology concepts aren't important, but people really can learn, appreciate, enjoy and benefit from a lot of anatomy whether they've mastered those concepts yet or not. I believe that the "big picture" type knowledge gained from diving right in with a book like this should inspire many learners to go back and really learn the underlying chemistry and cell biology in more detail...more efficiently though because they know why they need to know it. The clinical focus of this text is another major plus, constantly reminding readers of the materials relevance. The illustrations and figures are excellent, and the text is well written and very clear. I highly recommend this book for students and teachers of anatomy, and anyone interested in learning.

I am a medical student at Texas A&M USHSC COM. Moore's is an excellent text for basic anatomy. They have included excellent drawings and the content is complete. Added bonuses to the text include insightful clinical correlation and appropriate embryological try-ins. The text appears wordy and most medical students will try to use a review book in its stead. This would be a mistake. Students who read Moore will retain more anatomy all the way into clinicals and will be ahead of their peers who did not. Overall this is a very fine text: best used in conjunction with Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy and Langman's Medical Embryology. *I will mention here, in fact, that the embryo text by Moore (The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology) does not meet the same high standard and is wrought with errors.

Although the text did have many strong points such as clinical discussions as well as good anatomical descriptions, my anatomy class and I discovered many mistakes and misprints, especially within the charts and tables, which occured throughout the text, often conflicting with other texts as well as just being incorrect altogether. I would recommend another text for studying accurate descriptions and details concerning musculature, such as their origin and insertion as well as innervation and action.

This is a very nice, dense, textbook of anatomy for serious anatomy students (e.g. future surgeons) that I would give five stars were it not for inconsistencies and errors that plague the book. No, there are not 12 cervical vertebrae! That is the most obvious error I've found so far. There are several, but considering the size and density of the text the number of plain errors is not grossly out of proportion. The more serious offense this book commits, in my opinion, is to disagree with itself, which can seriously hinder learning the material. Often, Moore will say one thing in the text, another in the summary text, and yet another in the illustrations he refers to! For example, Moore says that the right bronchial artery often is a branch of the 3rd posterior intercostal artery, but the illustration he refers the reader to clearly shows the right bronchial artery as a branch of the FIFTH posterior intercostal artery. In the abdomen chapter, Moore says the arterial supply to the anterolateral abdominal wall includes 11th posterior intercostal artery, but the table and illustration referred to also includes the 10th posterior intercostal artery.

I'm sure that some of these discrepancies can be chalked up to normal anatomical variations, but for God's sake tell us that or we have no way of knowing whether it is an error or variation! Anyway, these discrepancies happen with a high enough frequency that it warrants a two star deduction on an otherwise pristine textbook of anatomy.

This is an excellent textbook of anatomy with good descriptions, decent drawings, good tables, and pretty good clinical correlations. The problem with this book is that it is very wordy. I found that reading the entire chapters in this book was not that beneficial and not a good use of time. What was better was to read the condensed version "Essential Clinical Anatomy" , skim the chapters in the big book for additional details and clinical correlations, and then use Netter, Grant, and/ or Rohen atlases for as supplements.

This is a wonderful textbook for anatomy at all levels.
I have used this book as an undergrad in comparative anatomy; I used this instead of the offered text in anatomy in medical school; now I use this text in residency (physical medicine and rehabilitation) both as a personal reference and to generate presentations for students and residents.

The illustrations are good, but netter may have some better ones. The best part of this textbook are the comprehensive tables that are really clearly organized and make learning and memorizing easier due to their intuitive layout.

The clinical pearls are good, not always great. However, I haven't seen other books do nearly as well in their 'clinical' content as Moore.

Great book to have on the shelf forever. By the way, my 'softcover' has through lasted years routine use.

Do you want to do further reading, to expand on your mastery of anatomy? Ok, then this is ok. Do you want a reference manual? Ok, can't complain about this book.

Are you a first year MD, DC, ND, DO, PA or whatever similiar student looking for the best way to learn? Then don't use this. It's my experience, that when using this with Netter, as much time or more is spent flipping through pages trying to find what you are looking for, then acutally learning.

Grant's anatomy for students is vastly superior, with big clear pictures, that explaine concepts fully. Moore is too word, with too much detail, and makes learing a chore. More facts does not mean you will learn more, nor learn what do faster, or easier, with higher comprehension.

I'm studing for board exams now, my BRS series anatomy book is totally read over, and I maybe put 15 minutes into looking at Moore the last 3 months. But really, if you need to find the odd fact, it's easier to just Wikipedia it, then search through Moore.