Quotes About Anatomy

No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.

In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.

A frigate bird with a seven-foot wingspan has a skeleton that weighs less than its feathers.

We think of owls as short legged because they tuck in their legs at rest and in flight. But most have long, well-muscled legs, up to half the length of their bodies, with strong bones, especially in their feet.

These inexperienced doctors rarely knew one end of a woman from the other.

Then she lifted the breastbone and frontal ribs in one go, the raising of a portcullis. That made me tremble. How frail my own rib cage; how breakable we all were.

If the labouring woman turned on her right, the uterus might compress the vena cava and reduce blood flow to her heart.)

his face glowing redder than a baboon's behind.

Men have a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to supply one at a time.

A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Okay," Crick said, rolling his eyes. "I give. Which part of my body is more interesting than my ass?" Deacon rewarded his obtuseness with a smack to the head. "Your heart, you fuckin' moron...

dangly bits,

You are being such a dick as to make a real dick look like a labia minora

He'd even seen Crick naked in passing and knew that his cock was long and slender, with a little mushroom of a head, and he was pretty sure there was a birthmark one side, but he hadn't seen it long enough to be sure.

There's also a penis museum in Finland.

I don't care how big you are! Big bones don't weigh any more than small bones.

It's weird because people think the biggest guys are the biggest eaters, but fat doesn't expand as much as muscle, so you want someone with a big frame who can expand.

Most of us pass our lives never once laying eyes on our own organs, the most precious and amazing things we own. Until something goes wrong, we barely give them thought. This seems strange to me. How is it that we find Christina Aguilera more interesting than the inside of our own bodies?

When you buy my books, you kind of know what you're in for. It's kind of self-selecting. If you have a delicate sensibility, and you're easily grossed out, you probably will never read one of my books.

I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy.

[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them so many anatomies.

the connecting fibers of the corpus callosum;

Basically, your heart is just a dumb, simple mechanical pump, and your blood vessels are nothing more exciting than hoses.

I didn't know people had that much blood in them," Gus said. "I thought we was mostly bone inside." Call didn't admit it, but he had the same belief; but from what he had seen that morning, it seemed that people were really just sacks of blood with legs and arms stuck on them.