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Comprehensive, without being intimidating, this practical, nicely illustrated atlas features an emphasis on the relationship of anatomy to clinical practice, numerous functional schematics of joints, an increase in the illustration of sectional anatomy, and many illustrations produced by ultrasound, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging. A new introductory chapter provides a survey of the essentials of anatomical organization, while helping to maintain a sense of the organism as a whole. Somehow the large-scale drawings and uncluttered pages make anatomy seem conquerable. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.