An all-in-one visual guide to human anatomy with encyclopaedic coverage from bones and muscles to systems and processes. This in-depth manual to the human body's physical structure, chemical workings, and potential problems is a must-have reference to help further your studies or knowledge of how our bodies work.This bestselling book is updated with the latest advances in medicine and genetics, including next-generation genetic sequencing and the fight against diseases such as COVID-19 and measles.The Human Body Book is illustrated with beautiful CGI artwork based on real medical scans, which are thoroughly annotated to take you right into the cells and fibres that keep the human body ticking. Each chapter showcases a function of the body, such as digestion or reproduction, revealing the magic behind it, and finishes with illustrated explanations of its common diseases and disorders.The opening chapter, Integrated Body, explains how the parts of the body work together to produce the living whole, enlivened by real-life 3D medical scans of the entire body. The book finishes with a chapter on growth and development, which looks in detail at how the body changes during a human life.
