This state-of-the-art textbook offers undergraduate and graduate students a complete introduction to histology. It contains end-of-chapter summary charts and a full-colour histological "look-alikes" atlas. This edition is updated and reviewed with information on a wide range of new topics, including histogenesis, endocytosis, an expanded discussion of intermediate filaments, the histophysiology of glands, haemal nodes, embryonic development of skin, foetal cortex of the adrenal gland, expanded discussion of the sertoli cell and blood supply of the endometriyu, and the development of the reticular membrane of the eye. Also investigated are the latest microscopes, such as the atomic force microscope and the confocal laser scanning microscope. The authors have included many useful insights in the "Clinical comments" sections.