A belated Happy New Year to all you irregular anatomists, and also a thank you. 2019 was a difficult year and this account has had to take a bit of a back seat as a result, so thank you all for your patience. Weird, gruesome and wonderful content will be back for 2020!💀

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Albrecht von Haller (1708 – 1777) was a swiss anatomist. A pupil of Herman Boerhaave, he is often referred to as "the father of modern In 1757, he conducted a famous series of experiments to distinguish between impulses and muscular contractions.

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Nicolaus Steno was born in 1636.

The greatest anatomist of his era, he dissected this shark head and proved the link between shark teeth and fossils. He also formulated the fundamental laws of geology...all by the age of 30, just to make you feel like a loser.

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Eustachian tube named after Bartholomaeus Eustachius an Italian anatomist 1520-1574. Professor of anatomy in Rome and physician to the pope.
What do you call this?

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Throughout centuries anatomists & physicians have dissected, prodded & pickled brains in order to better understand their mysterious workings.
My mission is to help you better understand how your Brain is wired, how it works best.
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Picture courtsey of

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The Optomist: Walt Disney.
Did the sketch of this last year, but painted it up this week - just in time for Mouse-Con!

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Ensimmäisten koulutehtävien kanssa alettu tappeleen. Yhtenä tehtävänä on lisätä omaan blogiin itsestä potretti... Joka ei saa olla valokuva.

Päätin ottaa selfien ja muuttaa sen vektorimuotoon. Vielä vaiheessa, mutta hyvä ihan tästä tulee 😬

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worked out more of my skeksis OC skekRo the Anatomist - local boogeyman that will stalk and kill you just to dissect you, read your guts, and then steal your bones. also a cassowary skeksis and a random one I drew at work.

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Surgeon and dermatologist Erasmus Wilson's The anatomist's vade mecum: A system of human (this ed. is from 1842) included extremely detailed illustrations of different body parts

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to American paleontologist, parasitologist, and anatomist Joseph Leidy, born in 1823! Among many other works, Leidy authored Fresh-water rhizopods of North America (1879), which had many beautiful and detailed plates, like the ones featured here

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Edinburgh surgeon Andrew Fyfe was born 1752. Fyfe was an exceptional anatomist & illustrator, although was described by Sir Astley Cooper as “a horrid lecturer” (Illustration from 'Anatomy of the Human Body', 1814)

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The fascia that separates the prostate and bladder from the rectum was described in 1836 by French surgeon and anatomist Charles-Pierre Denonvilliers (1808-1872). It’s an important structure in prostate and rectal cancer surgery. He also described the puboprostatic ligaments.

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Join the Edinburgh anatomists on our online programme this September - applications close tomorrow! https://t.co/MvoNH0203F

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"The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself." Happy birthday to the great comparative anatomist Georges Cuvier. He was born in 1769.

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The anatomist and surgeon Guido Guidi the Elder (Vidius Vidi) was born in Florence in 1507. The name of the Guidi is linked to the channel which from him takes the name of 'Vidian' and which is found in the sphenoid (pterygoid canal).

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