Quotes About Anatomy

Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.

The body was far smaller than the heart it had held

Si se suman, por ejemplo, todos los hombres y mujeres del planeta, se comprobará que, por término medio, el humano adulto medio tiene una mama y un testículo…

BLOOD CIRCULATION (1628)

The audible signals people can produce are not a series of crisp beeps like on a touch-tone phone. Speech is a river of breath, bent into hisses and hums by the soft flesh of the mouth and throat.

Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy.

Oh here's an idea: let's make pictures of our internal organs and give them to other people we love on Valentine's Day. That's not weird at all.

Al aumentar desproporcionadamente el tamaño de una zona cerebral hace que esta tienda a contactar con zonas que antes no inervaba, produciéndose una interacción entre estas zonas que no se daba en la especie ancestral, lo que puede llevar a mejoras funcionales.

The heart, said to be man's noblest organ, has the same shape as the penis, commonly supposed the most ignoble; the symbolism is not inappropriate, because the love which comes from the heart soon extends to the organ which it resembles.

If you are standing still and decide to take a step, the movement of your leg on the basis of your decision involves axons that originate in cell bodies located in the movement control regions in the frontal cortex (just behind your forehead) and that travel uninterrupted to the base of the spinal column (in the region of your lower back).

Una persona de setenta kilos de peso contiene, entre otras cosas: — 45 litros de agua — Suficiente cal para encalar un gallinero — Suficiente fósforo para 2.200 cerillas — Grasa para alrededor de 70 pastillas de jabón — Hierro para un clavo de 2 pulgadas — Carbono para 9.000 minas de lápiz — Una cucharada de magnesio

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

Around you this night a thousand million firefly anatomies breathe in and out in their slow-burning liturgical glow.

Her hand shook as she raised the loincloth and she gave a little gasp at what she saw beneath. Even only half hard, he was big. Way bigger than anyone else in her limited experience—especially Donald whose equipment reminded her of a shy, skinny worm afraid to come out of its hole.

Reminding myself that I have a tailbone keeps me in check.

There's a real lack of basic understanding of the female body and the reproductive system.

If your eyes are far apart, bringing the brow shape closer together gives the illusion of shorter distance between the eyes.

I hate that word boobs. I wish people wouldn't say it, especially girls. It's like calling your own body stupid.

Self-knowledge can, and ought, to apply not only to the soul, but also to the body; the man without insight into the fabric of his body has no knowledge of himself. —JOHN MOIR, student of anatomy, notes from opening lecture, Anatomical Education in a Scottish University, 1620

In the year 1240, however, a radical change in policy took effect. Frederick II, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, decreed that, for the sake of public health and the training of better doctors, at least one human body would be dissected in his kingdom every five years. For this bold move, Frederick II is credited with single-handedly pulling the field of anatomy out of the dark ages.

Anathomia by Mondino dei Liucci, c. 1493

The kidneys also provide a perfect illustration of an age-old anatomical truth: the body is designed to protect itself, not to be easy to dissect.

The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work.