A vivid, visual tour of a complex and fascinating subject! This book uses a wealth of vivid, full-color images-rather than dense text-to help you master all the histology and cell biology information you need to prepare for your course exams as well as the USMLET Step 1. Clinical correlations drive home the relevance of the material to clinical practice, and new Essential Concepts sections at the end of every chapter facilitate review. And now, online access via STUDENT CONSULT makes this an even more effective learning resource! First prize, Basic and Clinical Sciences category, BMA Awards 2007!

• Uses a unique pictorial approach, involving approximately 1,000 full-color illustrations, to make complex principles exceptionally easy to understand and remember.
  
• Correlates normal histology with cellular and molecular biology, pathology, and clinical medicine, continually demonstrating the clinical relevance of the material.

• Offers new Essential Concepts sections at the end of every chapter to make studying easier than ever.
• Includes STUDENT CONSULT access at no additional charge, enabling you to consult the book online, anywhere you go · perform quick searches · add your own notes and bookmarks · follow Integration Links to related bonus content from other STUDENT CONSULT titles-to help you see the connections between diverse disciplines · and more!

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This is the hardest text to read. The pictures are awesome but the text is impossible to read.

This is the first book combining both histology, molecular biology and pathology together in a clear language and very well organized fashion.
Thanks a lot to you and to the author for his effort.

The pictures were the selling point in this book. It did go a little too far in depth for my histology class at the time, talking about subunit x of protein y connects to this subunit in this way. However, it became more useful when I got to phys and path. The diagrams were everything, and they supplemented the text well. It did not have as many real microscopic pictures as Wheaters, but I found the drawings more useful than just staring at a light pink blob by a darker pink blob.

Let me begin by pointing out that the diagrams in ths book are worth far more than the text. In fact there is probably more text captioning and labeling the diagrams than in the body of the text itself. The downside is that somethings shown in diagrams are simply not at all mentioned in the text, so ii you use a textbook for the text contained within (or because you were told that you had to buy it), and look at the pictures only to understand what is written in the text, you will probably miss some important points. I recommend studying this book only after you have developed some familiarity with the basics of histology, then you can go through the diagrams of this book to clarify or reinforce your knowledge.