Embryology Textbooks

From Embryology

Introduction

There are many different textbooks that have used in preparing UNSW Embryology and there are some excellent textbooks listed below that cover embryology or more broadly developmental biology. I do not intend to endorse any specific textbook, this page simply lists, and provides links too, those I have seen and/or used.

I am indebted in preparing this online resource to the many wonderful embryology textbooks that are available. Students studying embryology should look through these in their library and select the one which most suits their study methods.

Please note that on the first page of each UNSW Embryology Notes section there is a list of specific chapters of Embryology texts relevant to that section of notes.

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Textbooks

The developing human : clinically oriented embryology

The Developing Human, 8th edn.jpg

Citation: The developing human : clinically oriented embryology 8th ed. Moore, Keith L; Persaud, T V N; Torchia, Mark G Philadelphia, PA : Saunders/Elsevier, c2008.

Links: NLM ID: 101293798 | NLM Holding | publisher page

Before we are born : essentials of embryology and birth defects

Citation: Before we are born : essentials of embryology and birth defects 7th ed. Moore, Keith L; Persaud, T V N; Torchia, Mark G Philadelphia, PA : Saunders/Elsevier, c2008.

Links: NLM ID: 101293597 publisher page

Larsen's human embryology

Citation: Larsen's human embryology 4th ed. Schoenwolf, Gary C; Larsen, William J, (William James). Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier/Churchill Livingstone, c2009.

Links: NLM ID: 101309446 NLM Holding

  • Human embryology 3rd ed. Larsen, William J, (William James) this edition specially edited by Lawrence S. Serman, S. Steven Potter, William J. Scott. New York : Churchill Livingstone, c2001. NLM ID: 101084289
  • Netter's atlas of human embryology 1st ed., Cochard, Larry R; Netter, Frank H (Frank Henry),1906-1991; Craig, John A, M.D.; Machado, Carlos A G. c2002. NLM ID: 101152607