The present volume is intended to address these issues. Compact but comprehensive histological descriptions of organs and tissues include only the essential functional information, and the text is coupled with full page micrographs with insets containing magnified details. Almost exclusively, micrographs of human tissues have been used in the book. Multiple samples of the same organs obtained from different patients, as well as from fetal and newborn subjects, have also been included to illustrate morphological variations. The vast majority of the sections are stained with haematoxylin & eosin (H&E) that is considered to be a standard staining procedure in histology; however, some additional specific staining methods have also been used to reveal delicate morphological details. The intention is for the material to include all of the necessary minutiae discoverable by light microscopy without elaborating on the ultrastructural details, and provide a simple, yet thorough description of the microanatomy of the tissues and organs. I hope that these aspirations will meet the requirements of medical students, physicians and researchers alike, and the book will prove to be a useful addition to the education of medical histology.