exam 1: history of anatomy/intro

Question 1

anatomy

Answer 1

• greek verb: “cut open, to dissect”
• oldest scientific discipline of medicine
• the study of structure

Question 2

anatomy history: before christ

Answer 2

• biblical references
• egypt and mummification
• greek contribution and controversy

Question 3

anatomy history: 1st century

Answer 3

culture and religion
- galen dissects animals
- Muslim scholars in Arabia
- Italy becomes a hub of history
- cutting open criminals was unethical
- “animals are not like humans”

Question 4

anatomy history: 15th-16th century

Answer 4

• renaissance and science
• michalangelo and da vinci (anatomy scholars): had burial watchers who would steal bodies out of graves and dissect them
• andreas vesalium: father of medicine

Question 5

anatomy history: 19th-20th century

Answer 5

• technology and imaging
• microscopic study
• gross anatomy
• it became ok to study anatomy and to look for patterns.
• field of anatomy took off!

Question 6

gray’s anatomy textbook

Answer 6

• first textbook: 1858 1st edition
• 2021: 42nd edition (current)
• only portray the most common structural arrangments
• the fabella was left out because only 30% of people have this bone in the knee

Question 7

anatomical terminology

Answer 7

• communication: a group of people come to an agreement to name structures, etc.
• 7500 human gross anatomy structures
• root word = tissue/organ
• prefix/suffix = description, location, size

Question 8

anatomy

Answer 8

• study of structure
• ana=up, tomy=process of cutting