Sentences with word «anatomist»

Joy Reidenberg, comparative anatomist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, talks about her new PBS series Sex in the Wild, about the sex lives of elephants, orangutans, kangaroos and dolphins.

Also, while trying to use other methods to look for that drawing, I ran into this image by anatomist William Cheselden (1688 - 1752) today of a praying skeleton that reminded me of your drawing.

For example, his ideas were adopted by the comparative anatomist Richard Owen, the founder of London's Natural History Museum.

In 1842, English anatomist Richard Owen proposed the term dinosauria for the strange animal fossils he and colleagues had begun to study.

Paul Broca was a famous French physician and anatomist whose work with aphasic patients in the 1800s led to the discovery of Broca's area; a small patch of the cerebral cortex just above the temple, specifically on the left side of the brain.

The earliest accurate anatomic depiction of the human heart is usually credited to the sixteenth - century Flemish anatomist Andreas Vesalius.

It's still dark in Stuttgart, but already a line is forming outside the Hanns - Martin Shleyer convention hall for the 6 a.m. opening of Body Worlds, the startling and controversial exhibit created by German anatomist Gunther von Hagens.

The exposed tailbone of a male pelvis from the collection of 19th - century anatomist George McClellan rests on a humble seat at the Mütter Museum.

Today is the 261st anniversary of the birth of Luigi Galvani, an Italian anatomist known for his discovery of electrical conductivity in animals.

Spanish anatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal began to study histology because it was cheap.

In 1816, an Italian anatomist reported finding lymphatic vessels on the surface of the brain, but for two centuries, it was forgotten.

... here one must be blunt, Martin's observations were contradicted by virtually all other anatomists who examined the specimens.»

In the context of Darwin's theories of evolution, the bones were re-examined by anatomist William King, who promptly named them Homo neanderthalensis, a name that provocatively (and incorrectly) suggested they were the missing link between apes and humans.

Montillo uses the classic novel Frankenstein as her starting point to explore the shady science and changing social mores that inspired Mary Shelley's 1818 tale, and folds details of Shelley's personal life into a broader history of early anatomists and alchemists.

Most anatomists believe the breasts» primary means of support are the Cooper's ligaments interlaced among the lobules.

Did you know that the technique is named after Antonio Maria Valhalla,] a seventeenth - century physician and anatomist from Bologna whose principal scientific interest was the human ear.

We may be instructed by a skilled anatomist who dissects the sexual organs or the brain, while politely declining to believe him when he asserts that that is all there is to sex or to thinking.

Then an Australian anatomist working in South Africa received a package.

Australopithecines are, of course, dismissed on the evidence of Charles Oxnard (a noted Western Australian anatomist, who in fact is the first to admit that his view of this series of fossils is uniquely his own).

The prominent British anatomist Sir Arthur Keith in 1948 gave 855 cc as the lowest known human brain volume (compared with 650 cc as the then highest known brain volume for a gorilla).

In the 1880s, a young Dutch anatomist named Eugène Dubois set out to find the missing link between apes and humans.

In the early 1900s, the Spanish anatomist Santiago Ramon y Cajal was the first to draw the neurons that make up the basic scaffolding of the brain.

Bergmann's rule, stated in 1847 by anatomist Carl Bergmann, says an animal's size depends on the temperature of its habitat.

Upon reading about Body Worlds [«Gross Anatomy,» March], I was appalled by the absolute lack of respect anatomist Gunther von Hagens has for the people these «exhibits» once were.

The old man had been living a life of seclusion ever since the death of his benefactor, the great anatomist Lord Drogo, so when I received his letter, asking me to come to him at once, I wasted no time.

Moran later studied at the famed Art Students League in Manhattan, where he took instruction from the muralists Vincent Drumond, Robert Henri, Thomas Fogarty (Norman Rockwell's teacher), and the legendary anatomist George Bridgman.

The early study of fossil bones was dominated by the 19th - century French comparative anatomist Georges Cuvier.

A half - century later, in 1888, the German anatomist Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer - Hartz peered through his microscope and decided to use the wordchromosome — meaning «color body» — for the tiny, dye - absorbing threads that he and others could see inside nuclei with the best microscopes of their day.

These «terrible lizards» have attracted attention for 150 years, since the British anatomist and palaeontologist Richard Owen invented the name.

They are not wrong, of course — expert anatomists quibble among themselves on the precise definition.

As he demonstrated in his 2014 drama, «Force Majeure,» Östlund is a brilliant anatomist of upper - class male fragility and all - around human selfishness.

Two of the most prominent anatomists of the day, both experts in the reconstruction of skulls, weighed in with opinions generally supportive of Haughton's conclusions.

Fortunately, a cadre of artistically minded, and perhaps morbid, anatomists discovered creative, nonviolent solutions to the short supply of healthy corpses.

It would be a hard - hearted horror fan whose pulse didn't quicken when Murray and company bring their vampire corpse to be studied by a young anatomist who can be none other than Victor Frankenstein.

Along with his famous Java Man fossils, 19th - century anatomist Eugène Dubois collected shells with small holes that appeared to be made by shark teeth at the site.

Anatomists first discovered these cell clusters in rabbits around 1874, giving them the name milky spots.

French anatomist Georges Cuvier, in 1796, was the first to suggest that mammoth fossils were not from living elephants, but represented a different species now extinct.

Having converted to Catholicism in 1667, when he then returned to Lutheran Denmark in 1672 to take up a post as the royal anatomist he found the religious attitudes somewhat oppressive, and he encountered the pressing needs of the minority Catholic popluation in northern Europe.

Stepping forward smartly with top hat and cane, a transformed Merrick turns anatomist to dissect the moral deformities of the «terrifyingly normal» scientist hunched miserably in his chair.

At yet higher magnification, a slice through a neuron viewed in an electron microscope looks like a landscape seen from an airplane — one anatomist calls it the «cytoscape.»

Comparative anatomist Thomas Henry Huxley, for example, noticed similarities in the body plans of dinosaurs and birds as early as the 1860s.

Zombie fans and anatomists alike will appreciate this handmade Human Kidney Lollipop Chocolate Candy Mold by Concepts in Candy.

Massospondylus is one of the most famous dinosaurs from South Africa and was named in 1854 by the celebrated anatomist Sir Richard Owen.

«If there's preservation of cells, maybe there's preservation of the constituents of the cells,» anatomist Lawrence Witmer says.

A short supply of dissectible cadavers in the mid-1800s drove anatomists to a clever, creepy solution: Inject bodies with wax.

Professional anatomists analyzed 3D scans of the bone and concluded that it was a match for our own species, rather than another early hominins such as Neandertals or a member of Australopithecus.

Dutch botanist and anatomist Frederik Ruysch is credited with perfecting the morbid preservation technique.

A: I traced part of this history back to 19th century [anatomist and] anthropologist Paul Broca, who was interested in comparing brains across lots of different animals.