ASSOCIATION OF AMIERICAN ANATOMISTS

Abstracts of the Contributions Second Scientific Congress of the African Association of Veterinary Anatomists

The current work aimed to analyse the anatomical findings of the nasal and paranasal sinuses of the donkey by gross anatomical observation of the skull and cadaver head, cross-sections, sagittal sections and computed tomography (CT) imaging. Seven adult donkeys and ten skulls were used in this study. The donkey head had six pairs of sinuses, three paranasal; the frontal, maxillary, and sphenopa...

The First Anatomists

ANATOMY has been considered to have had its beginning in the Egyptian practice of embalming the dead, and indeed the practice of preserving dead bodies from corruptioni could hardly fail to excite some interest in the structure of the humanl body. But little real anatomy could have been acquired by this means, for the ceremonies of embalming, as told by Herodotus (c. 400 B.C.) and Diodorus Sicu...

Artists and anatomists

There is no better way to introduce this delightful book by Hyatt Mayor, Curator of Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1946-66, than to quote the opening sentences of the author's own short preface: "Histories of anatomy exist in sufficient quantity, so this essay revolves around two questions only: What have artists done to record dissections and so help anatomists to see? And what, in t...

Designing a Contemporary Anatomy Museum: Anatomists’ Perspective

Address for Correspondence: Dr. Venkatesh G. Kamath, M.B.B.S., M. D. Anatomy, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Yenepoya Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India. E-Mail: [email protected] *1 Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Yenepoya Medical College, Mangalore, India. 2 Professor and Head, Department of Anatomy, ESICMC-PGIMSR, Bangalore, India. 3 Professor and...

ASIAN CONGRESS ON VETERINARY ANATOMICAL, HISTOLOGICAL AND CYTOLOGICAL SCIENCES The First Conference of the Asian Association of Veterinary Anatomists PROCEEDINGS