Quotes About Anatomy

Un niño escribió: El cuerpo humano está formado por el cerébreo, el bórax y la cavidad abominable. El cerébreo contiene el cerebro. El bórax contiene los pulmones, el hígado y otros seres vivos. La cavidad abominable contiene los intestinos, que son dos: el gordo y el flaco.1 Es

It's not that I don't like penises. I just don't like them on men.

To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.

I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach...just make sure you thrust upward through his ribcage.

I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.

Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization.

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.

A three-year old was examining his testicles while taking a bath. 'Mom,' he asked,'are these my brains?' 'Not yet.' she replied.

There are seven natural openings in the head and body. A lawyer is the only human being with eight. The extra one is a slot to store money in, should his bank be unable to hold all of it.

The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts.

Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidneys is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.

Girls should be taught at school that giving birth to an unnaturally over-sized western baby that no longer fits down the birth canal may lead to a multitude of long term health problems.

bullet wound n. ballistically induced aperture in the subcutaneous environment

I profess both to learn and to teach anatomy, not from books but from dissections; not from positions of philosophers but from the fabric of nature.

I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.

Good God! how should the mitral valves prevent the regurgitation of air and not of blood?

If there isn't, the skull can literally burst, fracturing the cranium into numerous pieces, each about the size of a quarter.

This is what my girlfriend would look like without skin.

He realized that Lili and he shared something: a pair of oyster-blue lungs; a chugging heart; their eyes, often rimmed pink with fatigue. But in the skull it was almost as if there were two brains, a walnut halved: his and hers.

Male Amazon river dolphins will even insert thier penises in each other's blowholes in the only known example of nasal sex.* *I refuse to make the obligatory "blowjob" joke here. Science writing is very serious business.

If God had meant them to be lifted and separated, He would have put one on each shoulder.

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.