Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022!
Grant's Dissector, Seventeenth Edition provides step-by-step human
cadaver dissection procedures for students to perform in the anatomy lab
and to recognize important relationships revealed through dissection.
More informative and approachable than ever, this updated seventeenth
edition broadens students' understanding of key dissection procedures
and readies them for success in healthcare practice.
Each chapter is consistently organized beginning with a Dissection
Overview that provides a blueprint of what needs to be accomplished
during the dissection session and includes relevant surface anatomy.
Dissection Instructions offer a logical sequence and numbered steps for
the dissection. The Dissection Follow-up emphasizes important features
of the dissection and encourages students to reflect on and synthesize
the information.
- New and revised illustrations, including new surface landmark
illustrations, strengthen students' grasp of common dissection
procedures.
- New chapter introductions focus students' attention on relevant
Clinical Correlations.
- Reorganized Skeletal and Surface Anatomy sections guide students
logically from palpating bony structures to making skin incisions.
- Enhanced and streamlined cross-references reinforce understanding with
direct links to related content in Grant's Atlas of Anatomy as well
as Grant's Dissection Videos.
- Dissection Overviews guide students through relevant surface anatomy
and osteology.
- Numbered, step-by-step Dissection Instructions clarify procedures and
enhance the dissection experience.
- Full-color illustrations improve students' accuracy and precision from
initial incisions through deeper dissections.
- Clinical Correlation boxes place procedures in a clinical context to
ready students for healthcare practice.
