Quotes About Anatomy

If we are not supposed to eat animals, then why are they made of meat?

I believe that the power which the spleen possesses of regulating its amount of blood depends entirely upon mechanical properties.

The arteries are found in nearly every part of the animal body, with the exception of the hairs, nails, and epidermis; and the larger trunks usually occupy the most protected situations, running, in the limbs, along the flexor side, where they are less exposed to injury.

The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.

If we knew how our body is made, we wouldn't dare move.

I've always been fascinated by the body and the mind.

I find it quite fascinating to see how the body works.

I have always had a fascination about what's inside a human being.

I hate feet, they're disgusting! What are they even for?

I never developed hard cartilage in my ears because I played with them since I was a baby. I can fold my ear entirely inside out, and I can put the whole thing inside itself.

What dinosaur traits are missing from an ostrich? The ostrich has a toothless beak, but there are mutations that cause teeth and claws to come back to their mouth and limbs. You need to replace the feathers with scales, but there are no feathers on their legs and feet, so you just need to make its whole body like its legs are.

Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?

We all have different brow bones, and different amounts of space between the eyebrow and the lashes; the space on the upper lid is bigger or smaller, the space on the bridge of the nose or between the eyes is wider or narrower. Everyone is different.

Biological anthropology tends to focus on skeletons because that's what is often left behind in the ground, but I am a whole-body anatomist, I'm a clinical anatomist and that's what I teach, I teach it all, not just the skeleton, the muscles and nerves, blood vessels.

My arms are probably the same size as John Terry's legs.

I could have had a session of defecography, which is a diagnostic test in which X-rays are taken to assess anatomical problems occurring during the process of defecation. I gave it the briefest of thoughts before recognizing that this is beyond the pale - even for me.

You shouldn't hate your body parts. I have lovely little ears and eyelashes so long they sometimes get tangled in the machinery when I have my eyes tested.

His answers were quite often like that. When she spoke of beauty, he spoke of the fatty tissue supporting the epidermis. When she mentioned love, he responded with the statistical curve that indicates the automatic rise and fall in the annual birthrate. When she spoke of the great figures in art, he traced the chain of borrowings that links these figures to one another.

The Human Body, Superhuman and Instincts to Threads

Certainly the prefrontal cortex is an important thing; I'm as proud of mine as the next guy.

Luego todo se convirtió en una sucesión de hechos concretos o de nombres proprios o de verbos, o de capítulos de un manual de anatomía deshojado como una flor, interrelacionados caóticamente entre sí.

Then everything turned into a succession of concrete acts and proper nouns and verbs, or pages from an anatomy manual scattered like flower petals, chaotically linked.

The edge of a leaf is not simply uneven; there is a glossary of specific words for the appearance of a leaf margin: dentate for large, coarse teeth, serrate for a sawblade edge, serrulate if the teeth are fine and even, ciliate for a fringe along the edge. A leaf folded by accordion pleats is plicate, complanate when flattened as if squashed between two pages of a book. Every nuance of moss architecture has a word.

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.