Meckel's diverticulum was first described by Fabricius Hildanus in 1598. The name derives from the German anatomist Johann Friedrich Meckel who described the embryological and pathological features in 1809 [1]. Although it generally remains silent but life threatening complications may arise making it an important structure for having a detailed knowledge of its anatomical and pathophysiologica...

At his death in 1793 the museum of the surgeon and anatomist John Hunter contained over thirteen thousand specimens and objects. Although many were the familiar stuff of natural history, the core of the collection consisted of over seven thousand human or animal body parts or ‘anatomical preparations’. They were testament to and the product of Hunter’s assiduous work as a dissector of dead bodi...

Materials and methods A CT-Scan of a volunteer without pathology in relation with the Petrous bone was used to build a numerical model. Using Scan2Mesh [6], a tool dedicated to the generation of a mesh from medical data, 169 slices separated by a thickness of 0.6 millimeters were processed, using an automatic detection method based on thresholding. Then an anatomist checked the detected contour...

While the physiology, histology and stem cell biology of smell are active fields of contemporary research, smell is probably the sense that physicians knew the least about prior to the 20th century. Joseph-Hippolyte Cloquet (1787–1840) was an anatomist who, in 1815, defended a singular doctoral thesis—On odours, the sense of olfaction and the olfactory organs—then went on to publish, in 1821, t...

The epididymis consists of a single, highly coiled and convoluted tubule that Antoine De Graaf, the famous 17th-century anatomist, likened to a thread thickening to a string. The uncoiled tubule is several meters long and sperm in transit through it become functionally mature under the under the influence of the tubule lumen's microenvironment. The regulation of that microenvironment and the ma...

The study conducted on 60 human cadavers preserved in formalin, in the Anatomy Laboratory of the "Victor Babes" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, during 2000-2006, observed the internal and external jugular veins from the point of view of their origin, course and affluents. The morphological variability of the jugular veins (external jugular that receives as affluents the facial an...

The association between mechanical stress and bone mass was first recorded by Galileo in 1683 who noted the relationship between body weight and bone size; but it was not until 1892 that Julius Wolff, a German anatomist realised that changes in the mechanical stresses applied to a bone influenced bone strength. Immobility or prolonged bed rest rapidly leads to hypercalcuria, negative calcium ba...

The Scottish natural philosopher David Brewster played an important role in the history of Royal Society Edinburgh (RSE), being at different times its general secretary, vice-president, and president. This paper examines his career between joining society 1808 becoming principal University St Andrews 1838. It explores how he built a network scientific personal connections with key individuals s...

In veterinary medicine, impressive technological advances in biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology have led to a reduction the amount of time spent teaching anatomy shift toward anatomical research. As classically trained anatomists began retire at beginning 2000s, it became evident that there would be shortage qualified anatomists. This coincides with increase hiring recent graduates ge...

Aim: Comparing the height of the individuals in correlation with the forearm length. Objective: To determine the height of the individuals from the forearm length. Background: The estimation of the height of individuals from the skeletal bears immense importance in the sciences in addition to the long bones, humerus, femur etc., the forearm length also been used for this purpose. This serves an...