Anatomy uses standardized Latin terminology to identify musculature.
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Changes to medical terminology in Latin may affect how anatomists not trained in the language understand and communicate information.
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The feeling of pins and needles, which you might also call ‘bubbles’ or ‘tingles’, comes from our nerves.
They could go anywhere.
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When organs are in the wrong place, misdiagnosis is a risk.
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Viewers were concerned that the reality TV star struggled to breathe in her ultra-tight corset while posing on the red carpet
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The so-called ‘thumb-palm’ test may tell if you are at risk of a ballooning artery. But the evidence is far from certain.
Lori and George Schappell in Times Square, greeting fans.
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World’s oldest living conjoined twins – Lori and George Schappell – have died aged 62.
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Changes to the voice could signal ill health. An anatomist explains.
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Feelings of failure, guilt, grief and despair are common, our study shows. But there is support.
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Chronic UTIs come back repeatedly or never fully go away despite treatment.
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Men will go to almost any length to increase their length. Mostly with disastrous consequences.
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Regular erections help to maintain the potency suggests a new study in mice.
Like natural hormones, known as endogenous hormones, the artificial hormones contained in the pill, known as exogenous hormones, can have effects on the brain.
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Oral contraceptives modify the menstrual cycle. What’s less well known is that they also reach the brain, particularly the regions important for regulating emotions.
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An anatomist explains why turbulence on flights makes us feel so ill and disoriented.
Artists reveal what cannot be seen.
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From body snatching to Photoshop and virtual reality, the techniques of medical illustration have evolved. But its essential role in showing clinicians how to care for the body continues today.
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The much understudied fascia – our body’s own version of Spanx – is now coming under increasing scientific scrutiny.
What’s the worst that can happen?
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People have been shot with their own guns inside these giant magnets.
The experimental methods available today allow us to break the brain down into its elementary components in order to understand its functions and dysfunctions.
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Montréal is home to one of the world’s largest brain banks, the Douglas-Bell Canada Brain Bank, where discoveries about different neurological and psychiatric diseases are made.
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An intact fly was recently found inside a man’s colon. It joins a long list of odd things found inside the human body.
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Why the speed of fast bowling in cricket seems to have stalled.
Medical students look at cadaver parts being used for demonstration.
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Most states permit government officials to donate unclaimed bodies to medical schools, with no legal requirement for prior approval from the deceased or their next of kin.