Histology of Organ and Embryo: Human Development and Functional Tissue Histology

Author: Cheng Lingzhong
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Histology and embryology both belong to the discipline of morphology. In their long-term development, they have mutually permeated, advanced, and been closely related. In China's nearly 50 years of medical education, histology and embryology have been listed as a fundamental medical course, and it has been customary to teach them separately in sequence. From the fertilized egg to a complex individual, the structure and function of the organism are always influenced by the environment and evolve during growth and aging. With the rapid progress of modern life sciences, people's understanding of organismal development and its structural and functional changes has become increasingly profound, and the research on histology and embryology at the cellular and molecular levels has also been closely intertwined. In light of this, considering the development of disciplines and teaching effectiveness, we envisioned changing the teaching model that had long separated the content of histology and embryology, attempting to organically integrate the teaching content of these two disciplines. Taking human development as the thread, we closely combine the occurrence, development, structure, and related functions of various tissues and organs, making it a substantial course. Therefore, the title of this book is "Histology and Embryology—Human Development and Functional Histology." Among the over 500 illustrations in this book, except for electron microscope images, almost all are light-microscopic color photographs of tissue sections and color illustrations drawn by the authors for each chapter. The illustrations are richly accompanied by text, with figures arranged according to the text, which is conducive to creating multimedia courseware for teaching. This is one of the distinctive features of this textbook. New editions of similar textbooks abroad generally use color illustrations, which is a common characteristic of textbooks in the discipline of morphology.