In executing it he pursued the plan of conscientious artists who first model in clay the figure to be painted in order to ensure strict anatomical proportions and accuracy.
On his return home he devoted his time to the study of anatomy and physiology at Paris and Heidleberg and to modelling anatomical dissections for the illustration of his father’s lectures at Durham University.
R[=A]CH'ITOME, an anatomicalinstrument for opening the spinal canal.
The tamping iron and the skull are preserved in the Warren Anatomical Museum, Boston.
The anatomical distinctness of the cerebellum from the larger brain and other parts of the nervous system is more apparent than real.
Leonardo was certainly the first man, we know of, who introduced the practice of making anatomical drawings" (Two introductory letters.
In the present work I must necessarily limit myself to giving the reader a general view of these labours, by publishing his introductory notes to the various books on anatomical subjects.
The limits of my plan in this work exclude all purely anatomical writings, therefore only a very brief excerpt from this note book can be given here.
In the Bibliography of the Manuscripts, at the end of this volume a short review is given of the valuable contents of these Anatomical note books which are at present almost all in the possession of her Majesty the Queen of England.
If this interpretation is the correct one, this passage would have no right to find a place in the series on anatomical studies.
The feathers alone, the imprint of which is excellently preserved in the fine limestone, would indicate its bird nature, but other anatomicaldistinctions are clearly seen in it.
We cannot enter here into finer anatomical details, but all the features are consistent and indicate a stage in the evolution from ape-man to savage man.
There were several anatomical differences between the two provinces, but the most conspicuous and most puzzling was the backbone.
A close discussion of the anatomical details would be out of place here, [*] and the question remains open for the present.
There are important anatomicaldifferences between the two.
When the skeletons of fishes of the Ceratodus type were discovered in the Devonian rocks, it was felt that we had found the fish-ancestor of the land Vertebrates, but a closer anatomical examination has made this doubtful.
Owing to the extreme dryness of the atmosphere, the skulls of the dead which here lay scattered upon the surface of the soil, seemed as though they were so many anatomical preparations.
The anthropological collection consists of 100 skulls of various races of men, and includes a complete Bushman-skeleton, besides a great variety of interesting physiological and pathologico-anatomical preparations.
A speculum for gynaecological purposes has been found in the ruins of Pompeii, and votive offerings of anatomical parts found in the temples show that various gynaecological malformations were known to the ancients.
One of the best-known anatomical characteristics of the genus is the occurrence of numerous spindle-shaped or branched fibres with enormously-thickened walls studded with crystals of calcium oxalate.
The anatomical structure of the vegetative organs of recent cycads is of special interest as affording important evidence of relationship with extinct types, and with other groups of recent plants.
The various genera are distinguished from one another by the shape and manner of attachment of the pinnae, the form of the carpellary scales, and to some extent by anatomical characters.
The abundance of petrified coniferous wood in rocks of various ages has led many botanists to investigate the structure of modern genera with a view to determining how far anatomical characters may be used as evidence of generic distinctions.
The main anatomical features of a cycad stem may be summarized as follows: the centre is occupied by a large parenchymatous pith traversed by numerous secretory canals, and in some genera by cauline vascular bundles (e.
The exercises practised in them are arranged upon scientific principles based on anatomical and physiological knowledge; and these principles have spread thence to influence largely the practice of gymnastics in schools and in the army.
An anatomical peculiarity in the veins of Pinus and several other genera is the continuity of the medullary rays, which extend as continuous plates from one end of the leaf to the other.
Scott, "The Anatomical Characters presented by the Peduncle of Cycadaceae," Ann.
The anatomical knowledge of the Talmudists was derived chiefly from dissection of the animals.
The various chapters were prepared with the idea of supplying explicit directions and practical help during the anatomical demonstrations, so that these might be made as speedily as possible.
This very important defect was not due to any Church opposition to anatomy, as has often been said, but to the objection that people have to seeing the bodies of their friends or acquaintances used for anatomical purposes.
Sphudron is the anatomical term of the Græco-Alexandrian school for the condyles of the femur.
His book is really a manual of making anatomicalpreparations for demonstration purposes.
The year 1315 is the generally accepted date for the first public anatomical demonstration upon a human body made by Mondino, and yet it is true that among the laws promulgated by Frederick II, more than seventy-five years before (A.
The lack of bodies for dissection is sometimes attributed to religious scruples, but they have very little to do with it, as at all times men have refused to allow the bodies of their friends to be treated as anatomical material.
It was entirely owing to its form as a handy manual of anatomical knowledge and, besides, because it was an incentive to the practice of human dissection, that it attained and maintained its popularity.
As we note in the chapter on "Great Surgeons of the Medieval Universities," Mondeville, according to Guy de Chauliac, had pictures of anatomical preparations which he used for teaching purposes.
The Greeks were, unwittingly, very near an anatomical truth when they ascribed to certain monsters, called cyclopes, only one eye apiece, which was placed in the centre of their foreheads.
He was satisfied with its anatomicaland physiological significance.
Here in the brain of an ant, is an anatomicaland physiological similarity to the brain of man: therefore, it is reasonable to expect evidences of mental operations in the ant akin to those of man.
In all probability, it is only an "anatomical barrier and a psychical accident" at best, which prevent the dog from addressing his master through the agency of speech itself!
In the church in Daphne Pass we found for the first time instances of the votive offering of coins, as well as of anatomical models.
Their classification was based originally upon anatomical resemblances and took no account of any mental qualities.
He depended upon his friend Daubenton for anatomical facts, and on Gueneau de Montbéliard and the Abbé Bexon for his zoölogical data.
In this physiologico-psychological base for a classification he unwisely departed from his usual more solid foundation of anatomical structure, and the results were worthless.
Only after these comparative-anatomical considerations shall we be in a position to attack the difficult question of our embryology.
The plasson of the stem-cell or cytula may, from the anatomical point of view, be regarded as homogeneous and structureless, like that of the monera.
But the fatalest institutor of proud modernanatomical and scientific art, and of all that has polluted the dignity, and darkened the charity, of the greater ages, was Antonio Pollajuolo of Florence.
I find even this mere outline of anatomical structure so interferes with the temper in which I wish my readers to think, that I shall withdraw it in my complete edition.
The connection of the still more powerful quills of the outer fan with the bones of the hand is quite beyond all my poor anatomical perceptions, and, happily for me, also beyond needs of artistic investigation.
At a hospital in Liege two house-surgeons were at the ‘Salles des décades’ in pursuance of their anatomical studies, when hearing at one side of them a noise like stifled breathing great was their fear!
In the interests of science, perhaps, their chief value is to be recognized, not so much in their own high merit, as in the practical training which their preparation gave the author in anatomical detail and classification.
In addition to the usual studies, he attended the anatomical course of Clossey.
It was in the pursuit after such analogies that Cuvier was led into the track where he found the basis of his new anatomical classifications.
To the late Mr. Cline, however, and to Mr. Abernethy, we are indebted for the anatomical schools at two of our largest hospitals.
Hunter may be considered as the father of the anatomical schools of London, and he bequeathed a fame and character to his class, which has been supported with undiminished lustre to the present day.
The Camelopard now at Paris differs in many essential anatomical characters from the kind at the Cape of Good Hope[95].
For this reason, and for this reason alone, the anatomical lectures were afterwards given in the middle of the day.
He even recognizes the dangers for the patient from the presence of anatomical anomalies of various kinds and describes certain of the more important of them.
A special feature of his book is the presence of seventy illustrations of instruments of the most various kinds, together with a plate showing the anatomical features of the stitching of a wound in the head.
An anatomical description of the human body, considered as an island kingdom.
There is in the human face an anatomical characteristic of greater importance than any taken from the elongation of the cranium; that is, the projection forwards, or the uprightness of the jaws.
Whether from habit, or in consequence of anatomical formation, these people assume positions at every moment which would fatigue us terribly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anatomical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
