Human Osteology

Because of the time constraint during first year undergraduate studies, the need of a book on osteology is felt which shall avoid unnecessary details yet provide all the basic information to meet the requirement of students. Salient features • Lucid explanation in simple language. • Unnecessary details are avoided. • Each chapter contains many “Clinical Importance”. • Description of each bone is provided under various heads, i.e., general introduction, side determination, anatomical position, general features, particular features (including relations of blood vessels, nerves and attachment of ligaments), ossification, clinical importance and further details. • Comprising over 200 coloured and clearly labeled diagrams. • Large number of high resolution, large sized and labeled photographs. This will help the students who have no access to bones. • The further details on the subject is given for postgraduate students and printed on screen under heading “Further Details”. • Research of author on osteology is incorporated in “Further Details” which add new concepts to our existing knowledge and provides clues to postgraduate students to do further research on the subject. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Prof G P Pal (MBBS, MS, DSc, FAMS, FNASc, FASc. Bhatnagar Laureate), is an eminent teacher with more than three-and-a-half decades of teaching experience. Currently, he is Professor and Head, Department of Anatomy at the Modern Dental College and Research Centre, Indore. Earlier, he had been Head, Department of Anatomy at MP Shah Medical College, Jamnagar (Gujarat). He has to his credit numerous publications in journal of international repute. Dr Pal is the co-author of Professor Inderbir Singh "Human Embryology", author of "Textbook of Histology", "General Anatomy", "Medical Genetics", "Essentials of Genetics for Dental Students", and "Genetics in Dentistry".