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Aeby

Christoph Theodor Aeby (1835–1885), Swiss anatomist and anthropologist.

Agostino Carlini

Also in 1775, Carlini was commissioned by Dr William Hunter, first Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy schools, to make a cast of the flayed corpse of a recently executed smuggler.

Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti

At the beginning of 1850 Corti had received the invitation of the anatomist Albert Kölliker and had moved to Würzburg, where he made friends with Virchow.

Anatomy murder

They killed 16 people over the course of a year, selling the cadavers to the anatomist Robert Knox.

Arber

Agnes Arber, British plant morphologist and anatomist, historian of botany, and philosopher of biology

Artery of the pterygoid canal

The eponym, Vidian artery, is derived from the Italian surgeon and anatomist Vidus Vidius.

Balloonist theory

In 1667, Jan Swammerdam, a Dutch anatomist famous for working with insects, struck the first important blow against the balloonist theory.

Bell's palsy

Named after Scottish anatomist Charles Bell, who first described it, Bell's palsy is the most common acute mononeuropathy (disease involving only one nerve) and is the most common cause of acute facial nerve paralysis (>80%).

Bruch's membrane

Bruch's membrane was named after the German anatomist Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Bruch.

Charles Bardeen

Charles Russell Bardeen (1871–1935), American anatomist, first dean of the medical school of the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Du Petit

François Pourfour du Petit (1664–1741), a French anatomist, ophthalmologist and surgeon

Eduard Pernkopf

Following the theories of bioethicist Charles A. Foster, he sees the anatomist's fundamental crime as a violation of his subjects' dignity.

Edward Anthony Spitzka

Edward Anthony Spitzka (June 17, 1876 – September 4, 1922) was an American anatomist who autopsied (29 Oct 1901) the brain of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of president William McKinley.

Edward Janczewski

Edward Janczewski (Edward Franciszek Janczewski-Glinka) (b. December 14, 1846 in Blinstrubiszki, Samogitia, d. July 17, 1918 in Kraków) was a Polish biologist (taxonomist, anatomist, and morphologist), rector of the Jagiellonian University, and member of the Academy of Learning.

Eustachian tube

It is named after the sixteenth-century anatomist Bartolomeo Eustachi.

Fallopian tube

They are named after their discoverer, the 16th century Italian anatomist, Gabriele Falloppio.

Filippo Pacini

Filippo Pacini (25 May 1812 – 9 July 1883) was an Italian anatomist, posthumously famous for isolating the cholera bacillus Vibrio cholerae in 1854, well before Robert Koch's more widely accepted discoveries thirty years later.

Foramen spinosum

The foramen spinosum was first described by the Danish anatomist Jakob Benignus Winslow in the 18th century.

Francis Sibson

He was born at Crosscanonby, near Maryport, Cumberland but grew up and was educated in Edinburgh, apprenticed to John Lizars, surgeon and anatomist, receiving his diploma (LRCS) in 1831.

Franz Eilhard Schulze

Franz Eilhard Schulze (March 22, 1815 – November 2, 1921) was a German anatomist and zoologist born in Eldena, near Greifswald.

George Britton Halford

George Britton Halford (26 November 1824 – 27 May 1910) was an English-born anatomist and physiologist, founder of the first medical school in Australia, University of Melbourne School of Medicine.

Giambattista Canano

Giambattista Canano (1515–1579) was a notable anatomist and professor at the University of Ferrara of the 16th century who was wrongly credited with the discovery of the circulation of the blood which was presented to him and other scholars by Amato Lusitano.

Giovanni Mingazzini

He trained at the institute of physiology in Rome with Jacob Moleschott (1822-1893), followed by work as an assistant to anatomist Francesco Todaro (1839-1918).

Govert Bidloo

Govert Bidloo or Govard Bidloo (12 March 1649 – 30 March 1713) was a Dutch Golden Age physician, anatomist, poet and playwright.

Hassall-Henle bodies

Hassall-Henle bodies are named after British physician Arthur Hill Hassall (1817-1894) and German anatomist Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809-1885).

Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz

Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz (6 October 1836, Hehlen an der Weser, Braunschweig, Germany – 23 January 1921, Berlin) was a German anatomist, famous for consolidating the neuron theory of organization of the nervous system and for naming the chromosome.

Hermann Friedrich Stannius

Hermann Friedrich Stannius ( March 15, 1808, Hamburg - January 15, 1883, Sachsenberg near Schwerin) was a German anatomist, physiologist and entomologist.

Hieronymus Fabricius

Instead, Danish anatomist Caspar Bartholin credits Franciscus Sylvius with the discovery, and Bartholin's son Thomas named it the Sylvian fissure in the 1641 edition of the textbook Institutiones anatomicae.

Intestinal gland

The eponymous term (crypts of Lieberkühn) is named after the 18th-century German anatomist Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn.

Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty

A member of the Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon, he teamed with the physician and anatomist Guichard Joseph Duverney to produce anatomical albums.

Jean René Constant Quoy

Jean René Constant Quoy (10 November 1790, Maillé - 4 July 1869, Rochefort) was a French naval surgeon, zoologist and anatomist.

Joaquín Albarrán

Named with American urologist John Kelso Ormond (1886–1978); also known as "Gerota’s syndrome", after Romanian anatomist and urologist Dimitrie Gerota (1867-1939).

Killer ape theory

Dart refers to the Australian anatomist Grafton Elliot Smith (1871–1937), a specialist concerning anthropology.

Kunstkamera

Many items were bought in Amsterdam from pharmacologist Albertus Seba (1716) and anatomist Frederik Ruysch (1717) and formed the basis for the Academy of Sciences.

Lateral aperture

The structure is also called the lateral aperture of the fourth ventricle or the foramen of Luschka after anatomist Hubert von Luschka.

Lenore Malen

The book's black and white photographs illustrate a range of influences – from the Kinsey Institute's archives, stills from Peter Weiss's 1967 theatrical production and film Marat/Sade and photographs by 19th-century French anatomist Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne, to the photographs of the l9th-century photographer Carleton Watkins.

Ludwig Lewin Jacobson

On the death of the English anatomist Sir Everard Home, Jacobson became his successor as a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences.

María Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat

In 1997, when a jury of the Fortabat Foundation decided to give its prize for the best first novel by an Argentine to “The Anatomist”, a controversial novel by Federico Andahazi, Fortabat did not approve.

Philip Verheyen

It is also important to state here that the surgeon who performed Verheyen's amputation in Leiden had been a student of the anatomist Frederik Ruysch and on the patient's insistence had preserved his amputated leg for possible further study at a later date.

Raymond Vieussens

He regarded English anatomist Thomas Willis (1621–1675) as a major influence towards his career.

Renaissance in the Low Countries

Flemish anatomist Andreas Vesalius's life typically shows both the new possibilities and the troubles that came with them.

Rhombic lip

Through studies of human embryos performed in the late 1890s, Swiss anatomist Wilhelm His identified a portion of hindbrain neuroepithelium that was distinct from the rest of the hindbrain neuroepithelium in its morphology, sustained chromosomal division into late stages of embryogenesis, and deployment of streams of neurons through the hindbrain periphery.

Ruysch

Frederik Ruysch (1638—1731), Dutch doctor and anatomist, remembered for his developments in anatomical preservation and the creation of dioramas or scenes incorporating human parts

Showsec

Showsec was involved in the controversial Body Worlds 4 exhibition in Manchester by anatomist Dr Gunther von Hagens where they supplied security solutions for the entirety of the exhibit.

Stronsay Beast

Later the anatomist Sir Everard Home in London dismissed the measurement, declaring it must have been around 36 feet, and deemed it to be a decayed basking shark (basking sharks can take on a 'pseudo plesiosaur' appearance during decomposition).

The Red Maids' School

Alice Roberts (born 1973), anatomist, osteoarchaeologist, anthropologist, TV presenter, and author

Valentine Flood

Valentine Flood, M.D. (d. 1847), was an Irish anatomist and physician who died of typhus while treating fever victims in County Tipperary during the Great Irish Famine.

Vyšehrad cemetery

Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787-1869), anatomist and physiologist, known for the Purkinje effect and Purkinje cells

William Evans Hoyle

Trained as a medical anatomist, Hoyle is most famous for his monographic studies on cephalopods from major exploring expeditions of his era including the Challenger, the Albatross, the British National Antarctic Expedition and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition.


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