For more than 150 years Gray's Anatomy has been regarded worldwide as a seminal scientific text. First published in 1858 to serve as an accessible and instructive anatomy text for medical students, the book has gone through multiple editions since and has never been out of print. Contributions to later editions by other experts on surgery and anatomy have made Gray's Anatomy one of the most authoritative studies of the human body ever published.
Gray's Anatomy opens with a general anatomical overview that provides context and structure for the chapters that follow. The rest of the contents are organized by body systems and their subdivisions. Illustrated with more than 500 clinical drawings by H.V. Carter, the text of this volume offers readers an easy and dynamic method for referencing organs, bones, blood vessels, and other body tissues. This fifteenth edition also features a comprehensive index for easy location of anatomical structures by their clinical names.