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Gray's Anatomy
textbook of human anatomy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the textbook. For the television series, see Grey's Anatomy.
Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body (or Gray's Anatomy) is an English-language human anatomy textbook. It was first called Gray's Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical in the United Kingdom in 1858, and in the United States in 1859. It was written for medical students by Henry Grey and illustrated by Henry Vandyke Carter in 1855 and published in 1858.
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