• Revised as per the Competency Based Undergraduate Medical Curriculum and ensured coverage of all the competencies.

• Enriched text with additional new line diagrams, clinical photographs, ultrasonographs, flowcharts, and tables to facilitate greater

retention of knowledge.

• Clinical correlations integrated in the text, highlighting practical application of embryological facts have been modified extensively.

• Additional information of higher academic value presented in a simplified manner in N.B. to make it more interesting for readers.

• Embryological events relevant to prenatal diagnostic and surgical procedures are clinically correlated throughout the text.

• Patient-oriented case studies/problems, and their embryological and genetic basis are presented at the end of each chapter for

problem-based learning in clinical situations.

• Golden facts to remember are useful for the candidates appearing in various entrance examinations like PGME, USMLE, PLAB, etc.