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Quotes About Anatomy

It's amazing the limitation of the human anatomy, the fact that food and air must share a common passage.
~ Philip K. Dick
I am a breast. A Phenomenon that has been vastly described to me as a massive hormonal influx, a endocrinopathic catastrophe and/or a hermaphroditic explosion of chromosomes took place within my body between midnight and 4 A.M. on February 18, 1971, and converted me into a mammary gland disconnected from any human form.
~ Philip Roth
People appeared enormously foolish to him. He understood that they were only animated cavities full of jelly and strings and liquids.
~ David Guterson
Did you hear about the baby just born that was both sexes? It had a penis and a brain. —overheard at the University of Oregon Medical School
~ David James Duncan
3. You think that looks like a heart? If you do, that's only because you've never seen scrotum.
~ David Levithan
next to it was a dvd called 'as i get laid dying,' which had a hospital scene on the front. it was like grey's anatomy, only with less grey and more anatomy.
~ David Levithan
According to most surveys, the average penis ranges from five to six inches in length when erect and three to four inches in length when flaccid, or nonerect. Contrary to popular belief, penis length is not closely related to height.
~ David M. Buss
If a woman enjoys having her cervix stimulated during sexual intercourse, then size can matter. For most women, it is going to take a good five or six inches in length to reach the cervix when a woman is sexually aroused.
~ David M. Buss
That said, I admire people who are curious and open their minds to new possibilities, especially after a certain age. You have to draw the line somewhere, though, and with me it's my anus.
~ David Sedaris
When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.
~ Zadie Smith
Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?
~ Moshe Dayan
The hands are the feet of the arms.
~ Seth Meyers
No man should marry before he has studied anatomy and dissected the body of a woman.
~ Honore de Balzac
Every square inch of skin on your face contains about 65 hairs, 100 oil glands, 650 sweat glands, 78 yards of nerves, and 19 yards of blood vessels.
~ Unknown
The Cultural Psychology of the Clitoris
~ Ian Kerner
At the time, most bodies worked on by anatomists were cold indeed. They were brought to Edinburgh from all over Britain -- some came by way of the Union Canal. The resurrectionists -- body-snatchers -- pickled them in whisky for transportation. It was a lucrative trade." "But did the whisky get drunk afterwards?" Devlin chuckled. "Economics would dictate that it did.
~ Ian Rankin
Oh if only instead of being a hell, the universe had been an immense anus!
~ Comte de Lautreamont
Like any stage of the hydrologic process, we have our own peculiarities, our organs making us nothing more than water pools or springs of bizarre shape, filled with pulsing tubes and chambers.
~ Craig Childs
You know the difference between an asshole and an anus?" He spoke from the side of his mouth. "What's that?" "An anus can't say 'that went well.
~ Craig Johnson
deflated, revealing the systolic blood
~ Craig Johnson
Leonardo was a doer. He painted, of course, but he also went into the mountains to examine rocks and fossils and to the tidal marshes to look at the wings and flying habits of dragonflies. He took apart machines to see how they worked and took apart humans to the same end. He recorded all of his discoveries in what amounted to about thirteen thousand pages of notes and drawings.
~ Unknown
Who could think that a person's entire being is housed in a finger or in a hip bone or in a small piece of a skull, and that the rest of the body exists for appearances only?
~ Cristina Henriquez
I went to UC Davis because I wanted to be a vet. It's a great profession if it's right for you, but it's memorizing the bones and the muscles, and I am terrible at stuff like that. Also, there's a lot of blood and gore involved.
~ Bonnie Bassler
There is an anatomical dysfunction in today's Lebanon, and we have been stuck in a socio-political vicious circle for decades.
~ Lucien Bourjeily