Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus IV: Organ Systems

Introduction

Ronald A. Bergman, PhD
Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
Ryosuke Miyauchi, MD
Peer Review Status: Internally Peer Reviewed

• Dedication
• Organ Systems Listed Alaphabetically
• Organ Systems Listed by Region
• Glossary of Terms
• Synonyms
• List of Useful Books

As there are no two signatures or two sets of fingerprints that are alike, no two bodies are alike. Understanding variation is essential.

Anatomy textbooks provide an incomplete compilation of anatomic facts, describing parts of a body, which form a concept of a single whole creation, that probably never existed except as the described parts.

Six hundred- seventy six journals were reviewed. Complete journal titles, rather than their cited abbreviated form given with referenced articles, can be found listed in part 2, Cardiovascular System.

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