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Marieb was a self-described "accidental author," as she had authored only a few journal articles before beginning her work reviewing textbook manuscripts for Addison-Wesley in the 1970s. While writing those articles, she decided to write a laboratory manual, which became the most widely used lab manual in colleges and universities across the ...
The 2nd century physician Galen of Pergamum compiled classical knowledge of anatomy into a text that was used throughout the Middle Ages. [64] In the Renaissance, Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) pioneered the modern study of human anatomy by dissection, writing the influential book De humani corporis fabrica.
Muscle is a soft tissue, one of the four basic types of animal tissue.Muscle tissue gives skeletal muscles the ability to contract.Muscle is formed during embryonic development, in a process known as myogenesis.
In human anatomy, the cephalic vein (also called the antecubital vein) [1] is a superficial vein in the arm. It is the longest vein of the upper limb. It starts at the anatomical snuffbox from the radial end of the dorsal venous network of hand, and ascends along the radial (lateral) side of the arm before emptying into the axillary vein.
Nomina Anatomica (NA) was the international standard on human anatomic terminology from 1895 until it was replaced by Terminologia Anatomica in 1998.. In the late nineteenth century some 30,000 terms for various body parts were in use.
De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (Latin, "On the Factory of the Human Body in Seven Books") is a set of books on human anatomy written by Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) and published in 1543. It was a major advance in the history of anatomy over the long-dominant work of Galen , and presented itself as such.
The arbor vitae / ˌ ɑːr b ɔːr ˈ v aɪ t iː / (Latin for "tree of life") is the cerebellar white matter, so called for its branched, tree-like appearance.In some ways it more resembles a fern and is present in both cerebellar hemispheres. [1]