Embryology Textbooks - UNSW

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The UNSW Library currently provides online access (through MD Consult) to the two recommended embryology textbooks. A UNSW Zpass is required to use any of the textbook chapter links listed below. Note that if you do not have online access, specific chapters a number of textbooks is listed on each notes page.

The current faculty UNSW Library Outreach Librarian is Kate Dunn (Phone +61 2 9385 1012 kate.dunn@unsw.edu.au)

Links: UNSW Library

The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology

Keith L. Moore, T.V.N. Persaud, Mark G. Torchia. (2011). The Developing Human: clinically oriented embryology (9^th ed.). Philadelphia: Saunders.

Description: xix, 540 p. p. : ill., ports. Publisher: Philadelphia, PA : Saunders/Elsevier, c2013. ISBN: 9781437720020 (pbk.) NLM Unique ID: 101561564

The following chapter links only work with a UNSW connection and can also be accessed through this UNSW Library connection.

• Chapter 1 - Introduction to the Developing Human

• Chapter 2 – First Week of Human Development

• Chapter 3 – Second Week of Human Development

• Chapter 4 – Third Week of Human Development

• Chapter 5 – Fourth to Eighth Weeks of Human Development

• Chapter 6 – Ninth Week to Birth: The Fetal Period

• Chapter 7 - Placenta and Fetal Membranes

• Chapter 8 – Body Cavities and Diaphragm

• Chapter 9 – Pharyngeal Apparatus, Face, and Neck

• Chapter 10 – Respiratory System

• Chapter 11 – Alimentary System

• Chapter 12 - Urogenital System

• Chapter 13 - Cardiovascular System

• Chapter 14 - Skeletal System

• Chapter 15 - Muscular System

• Chapter 16 – Development of Limbs

• Chapter 17 – Nervous System

• Chapter 18 – Development of Eyes and Ears

• Chapter 19 – Integumentary System

• Chapter 20 – Human Birth Defects

• Chapter 21 – Common Signaling Pathways Used During Development

• Appendix : Discussion of Clinically Oriented Problems

Larsen’s Human Embryology

Schoenwolf, G.C., Bleyl, S.B., Brauer, P.R. and Francis-West, P.H. (2009). Larsen’s Human Embryology (4th ed.). New York; Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.

The following chapter links only work with a UNSW connection and can also be accessed through this UNSW Library connection.

• Chapter 1 - Gametogenesis, Fertilization, and First Week

• Chapter 2 - Second Week: Becoming Bilaminar and Fully Implanting

• Chapter 3 - Third Week: Becoming Trilaminar and Establishing Body Axes

• Chapter 4 - Fourth Week: Forming the Embryo

• Chapter 5 - Principles and Mechanisms of Morphogenesis and Dysmorphogenesis

• Chapter 6 - Fetal Development and the Fetus as Patient

• Chapter 7 - Development of the Skin and Its Derivatives

• Chapter 8 - Development of the Musculoskeletal System

• Chapter 9 - Development of the Central Nervous System

• Chapter 10 - Development of the Peripheral Nervous System

• Chapter 11 - Development of the Respiratory System and Body Cavities

• Chapter 12 - Development of the Heart

• Chapter 13 - Development of the Vasculature

• Chapter 14 - Development of the Gastrointestinal Tract

• Chapter 15 - Development of the Urogenital System

• Chapter 16 - Development of the Pharyngeal Apparatus and Face

• Chapter 17 - Development of the Ears and Eyes

• Chapter 18 - Development of the Limbs

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