Anatomy

This second edition is aimed at students learning to find and feel the structures of the human body from the outside. It explains how to locate and palpate surface landmarks on a living person through unbroken skin, teaching techniques that reveal details the eye cannot see. Hands-on examination of this kind supports clinicians as they assess patients and reach diagnoses.

The book is richly illustrated, with new colour images that place marker dots and leader lines on bones, joints, muscles, nerves, arteries and veins. It also describes how the major organs project onto the surface of the body, so readers can connect what they feel under the skin with the anatomy beneath it.