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A First Class Resource for Anatomy Students, September 14, 2002
One of the first things that one realizes during anatomy lab is that the paintings in your textbook don't really reflect the reality of an embalmed corpse. Arteries are not conveniently painted bright red, nor are nerves colored a nice polite yellow.
The Color Atlas of Anatomy does a fantastic job of helping one translate the color drawings from the big anatomy textbooks into the lab by providing high-quality labelled photos of model dissections by expert anatomists. Think you have the hypogastric nerve in your abdomenal wall but aren't too sure what it's supposed to look like? My partner and I were in just that position and the Color Atlas helped us go from the idealized material of our lecture notes and Netter's Atlas to realities of our cadaver.
In addition to the photos, I found the schematic drawings to be a nice way to keep in mind the general organization of basic membranes and organs in the body, and the MR and X-Ray scans were useful as well in learning how to read radiograms and MRI images. This book does a great job of teaching you what anatomic specimens really look like, and help you appreciate the great beauty and elegance of the human body.
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
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Anatomy Lab on the top of your desk; virtual home dissection, March 21, 2001
I am a medical student from Texas A&M USHSC COM and this is the most valuable book I have owned thus far. This masterpiece of photographic wizardry accurately depicts the in-depth dissection of the human body with extreme clarity. The best way to use this atlas is in conjunction with your anatomy text (like Moore) and along with a color illustrated atlas (like Netter). However, I also suggest that medical students use Rohen to graphically dissect, using their dissector (like Grant's) and class handouts, every night before lab. You will find that you are a master of the material and your in-lab dissection will be one of the best. This process yielded excellent results, including a 1/4 reduction in overall lab time. Anatomy is still one of the most important subjects. Even in the clinical years, those students with a unique grasp of this subject will surpass their peers. This book is a worthy investment for all medical students.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
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I really liked it, but it's not indispensible, May 12, 2005
This review is from: Color Atlas of Anatomy: A Photographic Study of the Human Body (Hardcover)
I bought this book to help me in a first year medical school gross anatomy course. While it's not where you want to start when learning anatomy, it's both helpful, as well as reassuring, to be able to see high quality full-color photographs of structures that you've only seen in textbook illustrations, or in a diagrammatic atlas. One good use of this book is for looking up structures that you're just not understanding, even though you may have seen a dozen illustrated renditions of them.
The two best uses that I found for this atlas were: 1. generating my own more-realistic/less-diagrammatic illustrations when studying, and 2. SELF-TESTING before a laboratory practical exam.
A problem with Rohen and Yokochi is that, because not all anatomical structures can be clearly photographed, it's not as comprehensive as Netter's Atlas is, and many a structure that you might wish to look up won't be in it, so keep a good textbook (I recommend Moore and Dailey's Clinically Oriented Anatomy) and an illustrated atlas around (most people like Netter's), as well. Also, it is quite possible to identify more structures than are labelled in many of the photographs in this book.
In summary, this book is a nice tool to have around, but if you're determined to cut costs, this is the study aid to skip in a gross anatomy course, and the last one to consult when learning new structures.
A warning: be careful about leaving it open where those who aren't anatomy students might see it. Many of the photographs are potentially disturbing to people who aren't prepared for what they're about to see. Especially the ones with the "forks-on-a-chain" dissection tools visible or the dissected urogenital areas.
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