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Ask An Anatomist - Body Region
- What percentage of total body weight is contained in the lower leg? (below the knee and including the ankle & foot) I just need the mean %.
- At what age does the patella form in an infant?
- What is the name of the arched, white area, underneath the fingernail, by the cuticle (most obvious on the thumb)?
- Please tell me about the median nerve of the hand.
- I have the opportunity to make plaster casts from a dissection...
- When the wrist is in flexion it is difficult to fully flex the fingers. Please explain why.
- Is it true that we can insert a microcamera through our mouths to check on the top of the spine, inside of our heads, if we wish? If so, why is it that neurologists are not checking on tumours in the region like that yet?
- At which age do the facial bones complete ossification?
- I am doing research on Variations in External Carotid Artery. Please send some text and photographs and some books and websites.
- What are the best methods of dissecting the human tongue from a cadaver?
- I am writing a paper about the life and death of cochlear hair cells...
- Which anatomical terms need to be used in relation to another body part, like saying 'the ears are lateral to the eyes', and which need to be used absolutely, like 'the skin is superficial', and which can be used in both ways?
- Why is there no C1 dermatome?
- Where and or what is the lobulae aricularae?
- Is "bacteria" considered an example of a foreign body?
- I would like to understand better the use of the words homology, homologue homologous by anatomists.
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