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What does the word "Anatomy" mean?
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"Ana" = up
"tome" (tomy) = cutting
(cutting up)
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Aristotle
(early influence helped shape the language of Anatomy)
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One of the earliest to write about Anatomy: "Of the Parts of Animals"
-argued complex structures are built from smaller variety of simple components
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Claudius Galen
(early influence helped shape the language of Anatomy)
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-wrote textbook worshipped by Euro Med Profs - physician, treated gladiators wounds - dissected animals causing incorrect deductions of human anatomy
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Pericardium
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Two layer membrane that surrounds the heart.
"peri" = around
"cardia" = heart
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Temporal Area
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Timing (when one begins to gray, it typically starts at the temporal region; hence "timing")
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Pituitary
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Pituita = mucous (at the time, vessels in the brain are what what they thought released mucous to the nose)
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Loop of Henle
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Nephron in the kidney
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Islets of Langerhans
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Cluster of cells in pancreas
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Eponyms
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Terms named after a person
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Terminogia Anatomica
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A code of standard anatomical terms developed by an international committee of anatomists; provides worldwide standard for naming human structures
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Methods of Anatomical Study
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Inspection, Palpation, Auscultation, Percussion, Dissection, Exploratory Surgery, Medical Imaging
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Inspection
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Simply look at body's appearance on surface
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Palpation
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Feeling with hands (touching)
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Auscultation
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Listening to the inside
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Percussion
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