Quotes About Anatomy

The body consists of three parts: the brainium, the borax and the abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain. The borax contains the heart and lungs and the abominable cavity contains the bowels of which there are five: a, e, i, o, u.

Judges, like most people, may be divided roughly into four classes: judges with neither head nor heart—they are to be avoided at all costs; judges with head but no heart—they are almost as bad; then judges with heart but no head—risky but better than the first two, and finally, those rare judges who possess both head and a heart. ROBERT TRAVER Anatomy of a Murder (1958) The

Worse, because a lobster is an invertebrate, every anatomic feature that is rigid is part of the exoskeleton, including the teeth inside the stomach that grind food. The lobster must rip out the lining of its throat, stomach, and anus before it is free of the old shell.

In fact he was quite pleased with it: one of the few female corpses he had seen with that curious quasicalcification of the palmar aponeuroses – fresh, too – but since it was only the hands that interested him at the moment, would either of his colleagues choose to go snacks?

They ate an acceptable turbot – acceptable when the flour-and-water paste had been scraped off him – and then the steward brought in a ham. It was a ham that could only have come from a hog with a long-borne crippling disease, the sort of ham that is reserved for officers who buy their own provisions; and only a man versed in morbid anatomy could have carved it handsomely.

In theory, the quadriceps and hamstrings shouldn't contract at the same time to move the body, because they are antagonistic—i.e., on opposite sides of the limb. But they do, and they do so strongly. Kinesiologists call this phenomenon Lombard's Paradox.

and I began to think that the strictures of Islam would quickly make me a fancier of the margins of anatomy, thrilling at especially trim ankles, seeking a wink behind a veil, or watching for a response in the shoulders of one of those shrouded forms.

All human beings have noses, eyes, arms, legs, hearts, stomachs, and so far as I have been able to

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.

How is it that human anatomy evolved so that something as stupid-looking as a repetitive back-and-forth movement can generate the peak of physical ecstasy?

I realize that I'm far less familiar with my own privates than with Guy's, and I've seen his only twice! I guess that's to be expected, since girls can't really look at ourselves without a reflection, whereas nothing's hidden with boys. It seems unfair, but there's also something neat about it being shrouded in secrecy.

Hello Frances, I have just been to health class, and I was wondering how your feminine parts were developing.

Our penises flop up and down, and then as we pick up speed, slap left to right, back and forth -- who would have thought left to right? The pain! People should not do this. Penises were not built for running.

even the worst latex slip-and-slide off the steeply curved cerebrum's edge would mean a fall of only a few meters to the broad butylene platform, from which a venous-blue emergency ladder can be detached and lowered to extend down past the superior temporal gyrus and Pons and abducent to hook up with the polyurethane basilar-stem artery and allow a safe shimmy down to the good old oblongata just outside the rubberized meatus at ground zero.

numinous aura)—which balcony means that even the worst latex slip-and-slide off the steeply curved cerebrum's edge would mean a fall of only a few meters to the broad butylene platform, from which a venous-blue emergency ladder can be detached and lowered to extend down past the superior temporal gyrus and Pons and abducent to hook up with the polyurethane basilar-stem artery and allow a safe shimmy down to the good old oblongata just outside the rubberized meatus at ground zero.

The skulls of blacks, for instance, are denser, heavier, and smoother than the skulls of whites; that's one key reason there have been so few outstanding black Olympic swimmers: they have to work harder just to stay afloat. In

The pilot of the other Apache was my superior. Calling him an asshole is an insult to our anatomy.

You know what kind of nerves are in your feet? The same ones that network into your genitals.

I am the house. Every room is a chamber of my heart, every hallway an artery, every beam a bone.

There's a second funny bone in the human body that is controlled by nasal muscles. The third funny bone is in the ears.

Lord Moran's The Anatomy of Courage, the

Although man has included meat in his diet for thousands of years, his anatomy and physiology, and the chemistry of his digestive juices, are still unmistakably those of a frugivorous animal.

In this preface Calvin pens the memorable statement which he will repeat in the preface to his commentary: the Psalms are "an anatomy of all feelings of the soul.