Quotes About Anatomy

In my opinion, long and intense study of the human figure is the necessary foundation for a sculptor.

The African specialist Nahid Toubia puts it plain [when speaking of female genital mutilation]: In a man it would range from amoutation of most of the penis, to "removal of all the penis, its roots of soft tissue and part of the scrotal skin.

The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure. The clitoris is simply a bundle of nerves: 8,000 nerve fibers, to be precise. That's a higher concentration of nerve fibers than is found anywhere else in the male or female body, including the fingertips, lips, and tongue, and it is twice, twice, twice the number in the penis. Who needs a hand gun when you've got a semi-automatic?

I had always thought of my vagina as an anatomical vacuum randomly sucking up particles and objects from the surrounding environment.

I realized that the hair is there for a reason – it's the leaf around the flower, the lawn around the house. You have to love the hair in order to love the vagina. You can't pick the parts you want.

It's not something he can do anything about, being a bleeder, anymore than a guy with a glass jaw can do something about not having whiskers.

Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.

Gestation and lactation are anatomically, physiologically mandated features of being a female mammal.

Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.

What's changed is we now have good anatomical, geological, archaeological evidence that Neanderthals are not our ancestors. When I wrote 'Lucy,' I considered Neanderthals ancestors of modern humans. We have gone back twice the age of Lucy, six million years. And we see that upright bipedal walking goes back that far in time.

The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called 'The Anatomy of a Recipe.' To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with 'anatomical faults,' where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans.

Back in the day, when I was a university professor, I used to teach a class in Human Anatomy and Physiology. This class was popular with the football players, who all took it under the tragic misapprehension that it would be easy.

Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?

We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas and in different social classes.

It is not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.

Snake hearts don't stay put, like human hearts, but travel up and down the snake's body.

On occasion, we at 'MythBusters' come across stories we want to test that require using a pig carcass to simulate human physiology.

The site of hearing was now known to be in the cochlea.

The general framework of the body is built up mainly of a series of bones, supplemented, however, in certain regions by pieces of cartilage; the bony part of the framework constitutes the skeleton.

I love skeletons and bones so much.

I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into the ski and how the ski bends, your leverage points. It was a challenge. I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.

A face isn't an organ, like a liver or a heart. A face is muscles, nerves, bones, and skin. A face is more like a hand or a foot.

You have three chromosomes, Bryson. X, Y, and Fuckhead. -- Katz

He called it a mastodon (which means, a touch unexpectedly, "nipple-teeth").