Free Gray's Anatomy for iPad (The Book, Not The TV Show)

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  Brooklyn99 on 27/04/2011 - 16:20

  +2

  Some of the customer's review in iTunes

  Terrible
  by Bstiles00
  I got this expecting it to be a helpful tool for classes but its basically a cheap looking slides show. There are not the detailed drawings of the human body and systems that i expected from grays anatomy. It was a real let down for me and a waist of my money.

  Kind of old timey
  by —の—
  Contains nice hand drawn illustrations. However, the supporting text contains many 'tells' that this is an antiquated text. For example:

  "[the bladder of the female is said to be more capacious than that of the male, however the opposite is probably true]".

  By this I would have to conclude that this is a late 19th century (maybe even original (1858?)) edition, in which a lot of provable assertions were still as yet unproven. Furthermore, the notation text is scanned from the book. While this may look fancy (lovely 'swoopy' letters and all) it needlessly adds to this app's mammoth (500 MB!) size.

  Still, the illustrations are generally well made and labeled. It provides a lot of glimpses into the skeletal, circulatory and other systems, as well as early embryological development. So I gave it 2 stars

  Ehh
  by IsaacRead
  I won't talk bad about it much since I got it for free, but the information is very out of date. According to this, we have observed mitochondria inside animal cells, but we still don't know their function? Haha, yeah that is some outdated information. And that was just what I found after reading on the first page of embryology.

  There seems to be quite a bit of good basic information in it though, still.

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    StewBalls on 27/04/2011 - 23:58

    +4

    According to this, we have observed mitochondria inside animal cells, but we still don't know their function?

    Don't they determine how strong the 'force' is with you? :p

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      Momotsuki on 28/04/2011 - 15:12

      +1

      Midichlorians, young Padawan

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        StewBalls on 29/04/2011 - 23:31

        I always get those two confused, no wonder I kept getting weird looks in Human Bioscience classes!

        We can excuse Henry Gray though, coz the only "force" they had in his day was a 'colonising force'! ;)

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  Mazley on 27/04/2011 - 16:55

  Oh man - thought this was the latest edition for free (2008 reprint) - however, looks like an old version from the above comment - still a good find for a bit of fun though :D

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  m2000 on 27/04/2011 - 19:11

  496MB that's huge!

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    [Deactivated] on 27/04/2011 - 22:25

    that's what the nerd said

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  Tragus on 27/04/2011 - 21:01

  I agree Gray's Anatomy is outdated, so much so that it is now in the public domain for free. I would, however, strongly suggest buying Gray's Anatomy for Students by Drake, Vogl and Mitchell (either app or hard copy). I have found their simple diagrams the best for learning anatomy.

  I thought I would point out the difference as people seem to get these two versions confused.

  Just my 2c

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    urandack on 28/04/2011 - 01:25

    The 40th edition of Gray's Anatomy (9780443066849) was published in 2008…

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  aussman on 27/04/2011 - 22:29

  +1

  the best atlas is netters for drawing and rowan yakauchi for pictures
  best anatomy book is lasts 9th edition

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    SydStrand on 28/04/2011 - 03:51

    +1

    Personally I'd take Davidson's (Physiology) + Marieb (Anatomy, but there are many others) plus a Coloring book for actual study.

    Gray's, despite the reputation, is rather dated.

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    Momotsuki on 28/04/2011 - 15:14

    Netters is great

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  mxyzptik on 28/04/2011 - 10:40

  OK so Student version is free (& looks good), Premium version is $5.99??

  My son is sitting the UMAT in July and recently bought the book, I expect he will like this. He's also doing German and I think will be interested in the German translation.