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Gray’s Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice, 41e



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Author: Susan Standring PhD DSc

Publisher: Elsevier

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Publish Date: October 9, 2015

ISBN-10: 702052302

Pages: 1584

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Language: English

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Book Preface

Anatomy is the study of the structure of the body. Conventionally, it is divided into topographical (macroscopic or gross) anatomy (which may be further divided into regional anatomy, surface anatomy, neuroanatomy, endoscopic and imaging anatomy); developmental anatomy (embryogenesis and subsequent organogenesis); and the anatomy of microscopic and submicroscopic structure (histology).

Anatomical language is one of the fundamental languages of medicine. The unambiguous description of thousands of structures is impossible without an extensive and often highly specialized vocabulary. Ideally, these terms, which are often derived from Latin or Greek, should be used to the exclusion of any other, and eponyms should be avoided. In reality, this does not always happen. Many terms are vernacularized and, around the world, synonyms and eponyms still abound in the literature, in medical undergraduate classrooms and in clinics. The Terminologia Anatomica,1 drawn up by the Federative Committee on Anatomical Terminology (FCAT) in 1998, continues to serve as our reference source for the terminology for macroscopic anatomy, and the text of the forty-first edition of Gray’s Anatomy is almost entirely TA-compliant. However, where terminology is at variance with, or, more likely, is not included in, the TA, the alternative term used either is cited in the relevant consensus document or position paper, or enjoys widespread clinical usage. Synonyms and eponyms are given in parentheses on first usage of a preferred term and not shown thereafter in the text; an updated list of eponyms and short biographical details of the clinicians and anatomists whose names are used in this way is available in the e-book for reference purposes (see Preface, p. ix, for further discussion of the use of eponyms).


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