Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy Volume 2 Thorax and Abdomen

Description

The 17th edition of this renowned anatomy text covers all the gross anatomy competencies required by the National Medical Council of India curricula. Volume 2 provides a clear, trustworthy, and complete guide to the thorax, abdomen, pelvis, perineum, and trunk. Five new chapters on, osteology and surface marking gives students easy-to-read and well-illustrated accounts of these topics for learning and exam preparation.

Richly illustrated and packed with dissection boxes, clinical examples, and application boxes this text helps readers to easily learn anatomy in the dissection lab, classroom, and hospital. Purchasers of the 17th edition can access the online version of the book with 50 multiple choice questions and extra image-based revision content in an online appendix (see inside cover for details). A list of competencies at the beginning of the book shows where each key topic is covered for easy revision.

Reader-friendly, and completely updated, Cunningham's brings expert anatomical teaching to the modern-day student of medicine, dentistry, and allied health sciences.

About the author

Rachel Koshi has over thirty years' experience of teaching anatomy. She began her career in Anatomy in Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, where she taught Anatomy for more than 20 years and headed the Anatomy Department for eight years. Later she worked with Cornell University, New York, as Professor and Head of Anatomy in Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar for nine years, before returning to India and taking up a post at Apollo. In 2024 Rachel retired as Professor and Head of Department of Anatomy in Apollo Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Chittoor, India. She currently teaches Anatomy at the Medical College of Georgia-Savannah at Georgia Southern University, in the US and teaches anatomy as a volunteer internationally. In the past she has served as an expert reviewer for Grays Anatomy, Grays Anatomy for Students, and Atlas of Human Anatomy by Frank Netter.

Contributors:
Dr J Suganthy, Professor of Anatomy, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
Dr Suganthy wrote the MCQs for the online material and Chapter 2 General Anatomy MCQs

Dr Ritwik Baidya, MD, Assistant Professor of Anatomy in Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, Radiology/Program of Gross Anatomy, New York, NY, USA.
Dr Baidya wrote the online image-based questions.

Table of contents

Part 1 - Introduction
1. Introduction to the trunk
Part 2 - The thorax
2. Introduction to the thorax
3. Osteology of the thorax
4. The walls of the thorax
5. The cavity of the thorax
6. Surface marking of the thorax
7. MCQs on the thorax
Part 3 - The abdomen
8. Introduction to the abdomen
9. Osteology of the abdomen
10. The anterior abdominal wall
11. The male external genital organs
12. The lower back
13. The abdominal cavity
14. The diaphragm
15. The posterior abdominal wall
16. Surface marking of the abdomen
17. MCQs on the abdomen
Part 4 - The pelvis and perineum
18. Introduction to the pelvis and perineum
19. Osteology of the pelvis and perineum
20. The perineum
21. The pelvic viscera
22. The pelvic wall
23. MCQs on the pelvis and perineum