Elsevier, under its Churchill Livingstone imprint, has announced the publication in December 2004 of the 39th edition of one of the best known texts in the world, Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice. The new edition of this definitive guide to human anatomy is dazzling: it has been totally rewritten and radically restructured to be the text that all practitioners will need. This time, the actual number of pages has shrunk from 2,100 to 1,600, but the number of illustrations in it has increased to almost 2,000. Almost 400 of these are completely new and present all bodily structures with phenomenal clarity, including surface anatomy, radiologic anatomy, and microanatomy