Quotes About Anatomy

X-rays revealed that some people were born without a corpus callosum, and they seemed just fine.

All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.

My partner has to have good sized bones.

Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx.

He didn't say anything else but felt pressure from inside from the sight he saw there—the girl on the table who acted as if she were not there, the men in the room, and things like ropes and wires, the most delicate parts of which they were made. And Remal trades in this. I drop out of a box, thin-skinned like a maggot, and a cold bastard like Remal, moving the ropes and wires inside his anatomy, steps on me.

An exaggerated clitoris might even drive a woman to an elephant.' This remark – unprecedented in the courts of British justice – elicited loud laughter.

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.

I do love the way the brain looks. I love the way it's shaped.

It's kind of like wearing a baseball cup. I want to call it the Mangina." "That's a good name for it. . . . Where are the other vaginas you made?" Chandler brought over to me a plastic bag and dumped out all the failed vaginas on to his drafting table.

Do you work out, Michael? Attend a gym, or anything like that?' 'No. Why do you ask?' 'It's just that you have unusually firm buttocks. For a writer, that is. It was the first thing I noticed about you.

Give it a try. Bellybutton." "Bellybutton doesn't make me think of anything." "Dig deep." "In my bellybutton?" "In your brain, Oskar." "Uh." "Bellybutton. Bellybutton." "Stomach anus?

He then defines for them its medial (closer to the midline), lateral (further from the midline), superior and inferior (or cranial and caudal), anterior, and posterior (or ventral and dorsal) aspects. Anything nearer to the center or closer to the point of attachment is "proximal" (so the knee is proximal to the ankle), while things further out are "distal" (the ankle being distal to the knee). They need this basic vocabulary to begin.

only one "ginglymoarthrodial" joint, one that both hinges and slides: the TMJ, or temporomandibular joint.

Our brains are large for our body size, but that ratio is much greater in ants and shrews.

I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.

A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare.

The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating.

the ectoderm gives rise to the brain and nervous system and the superficial epidermis (skin) • the endoderm gives rise to the digestive system and the digestive glands • the mesoderm gives rise to muscle, bone, blood, the urogenital system, and connective tissue in general

I don't have shame with my body. I don't find a breast more vulnerable than an elbow.

I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.

When I asked what people would change about their bodies on Twitter, the birthing process was an extremely popular response!

May I say, if you were suddenly put into a woman's body, wouldn't you be slightly interested in your breasts, and why people look at certain parts of you, and why certain parts move like they do?

You know what I've always wanted to do? I've always wanted to put a lung in a suitcase and send it through an airport security check. In effect, the guard would be looking at an X-ray of a lung.

The unity of humanity can be explained in a mystical way, as Emerson did with his term "over-soul" (see below); but it can also be put into scientific terms. Science has revealed that all human beings belong to one species, with the same anatomy and brain structure. We're all part of one family; descended, in fact, from one common ancestor. Racial and cultural differences are only secondary and surface—the unity of humanity is primary and fundamental.