designed for a one-semester human anatomy course, is aimed to provide elementary knowl-.edge and basic concepts of human anatomy and to furnish an accessible framework of medical morphology forstudents majoring in medicine and other health-care programs. Although human anatomy is a classical subject inthe medical course system, the teaching of human anatomy has been greatly challenged in recent years due to anexplosion of information and an updating of ideas in medical science. To ensure enough knowledge to be learnedby students without necessarily increasing their learning time, we rely on the collective wisdom and combinedexperience of all authors to condense the subject essentials into this student-friendly text of 5 units, 19 chapters.The text contents are rigorously chosen to acquaint students with clear views on anatomical structures and relation-ships, and the text layout is ingeniously organized to allow each chapter to become a freestanding reading materialand yet to make different chapters well inter-correlated.