Wheater's Functional Histology: A Text and Colour Atlas

by Barbara Young, John W. Heath

Wheaters Functional Histology presents the student with a resource of high quality photomicrographs and electron micrographs of (largely) human tissues along with a concise text appropriate for modern medical and other biosciencecourses. The microstructure of tissues is related to function and clinical significance.
The book starts with a section on general cell structure and replication. The second section examines the basic tissue types of blood, supporting/connective tissue, epithelial tissue, muscle and nervous tissues. The third and major section examines the microstructure of the major body systems. For each chapter there is an introductory description followed by a collection of illustrations, each with an extended explanatory caption.
This book is ideal for those courses where considerable time is still devoted to the subject . Functional Histology will be used as an atlas to go alongside one of the major discursive textbooks. For shorter courses Functional Histology will be used as the sole text. The great strength of this book is that it is written from the point of view of the student. Each chapter has a brief overview of the topic, but most of the information is in the explanatory captions that accompany the high quality photomicrographs. Nearly all illustrations are of human tissue

Genres: Medicine, Science, Medical, Textbooks, Nonfiction, Reference, School

424 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1993

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Reviews

[Osama · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book in Histology in my opinion
excellent text,easy language, organized,& upto the point
a must for every medical student

[Heather · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book (and some late nights) got me an A in histology!

[Chan Kin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every medical student must read it "cover to cover".

[Matilda (booksinwildplaces) · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 stars

This is a great book for medical, biomedical and biological science students.

I learned well from the figures and figure legends. However, sometimes details on processes (i.e. the cell cycle) seemed to be lacking and I ended up having to google the answer or look in a different textbook for more clarity.

I will definitely be using this as a reference throughout university, as the figures and microscopic images are just so valuable!! I currently have the e-book, but will be investing in a hard-copy too.

[Hazel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Haven't exactly read it all, but have read much of it. A good reference.

[Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a very good histology book, though probably not essential (at least in my program, your mileage may vary).
The printing is high quality and structures are labeled clearly. It is easy to use and learn from.
Despite this, I didn't find it overly helpful, as our histology (in my program) slides are available online and our instructor has prepared excellent notes. I found it more helpful during our hematology section, as it was a different instructor who didn't provide those same tools, so I needed an alternative resource.
Overall, it's a good book for histology but I didn't end up using it much.

[♥Xeni♥ · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this histology atlas to be not detailed enough for my department. It does an okay job. The images are alright. But there's not enough of them, and there's not enough explanatory detail either.

[Saleh Khalid · Rating 4 out of 5]

كتاب الهستولوجي الأفضل. ندرس منه بالأوسبي لكنه ماينفع بالإند. الكتب المصرية لعلم الأنسجة هي التي ندرس منها
وفيها كمية معلومات هائلة ليس موجودة في ويترز. على سبيل المثال basal ganglia
وإلى اليوم لا أعلم من أين يأتون بهذه المعلومات.

[Prithvi]

good

[Neasa Dalton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Useful resource as a pathology atlas. Provides adequate detail without being inaccessible.