This concise textbook on human embryology meets the needs of first-year medical students in gross anatomy and neuroanatomy courses and provides a view of exciting applications that are currently in use or on the horizon.  Special Features: Detailed summaries at the beginning of each chapter, supplemented by full-page timeline illustrations that graphically display the timing of events described; Separate sections on clinical applications and experimental principles to relate embryologic development to clinical problems; Extensively illustrated with high-quality full-color and threedimensional artwork throughout to indicate the derivation of structures and tissues; Includes many scanning electron micrographs demonstrating how the structures in question actually look.