By

• Sujatha Kiran PhD, Professor and Head, Department of Anatomy, and, Academic Vice Principal, MNR Medical College, Sangareddy, Andhra Pradesh, India

The dissection manual is a practical guide in the dissection hall to unfold the position, relations and functions of the structures seen. This book is written with a view that a single body is given to a set of students for the whole year. In this dissection manual the regional division of the body follows the order of upper limb, thorax, abdomen, pelvis and perineum, lower limb, head and neck and brain. This helps in following the continuity of structures, particularly at the junctional zones by dissection. Each regional chapter starts with an introductory note. This gives an outline of arrangement of structures in that part and their functional specialization. This is followed by smaller segments of dissection regions. Each region describes the structures seen in that particular region with a pictorial depiction. This carries information needed to identify the structure in the body. Living and surface anatomy is incorporated at places to make the student understand the correlation between the structures that are seen in the cadaver and the functions they perform in the living. This book is primarily for undergraduate students and is also useful to postgraduate students for quick revision. After seeing and identifying the structures.