The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken. I have never before had occasion to make the comparison, for never before today have I seen a head in a roasting pan.
Mary RoachTags: anatomy
The spirits of the brain are directly connected to the testicles. This is why men who weary their imagination in books are less suitable for procreative functions...
Louis de la ForgeTags: humor reading books sex anatomy neurology
Nessa held her arm up. She was staring at it, trying to gauge how big that was. “Dude, that’s as big as my arm. That’s like being f****d by a limb dude!” She wiggled her arm back and forth. “That's not normal.
Erin JamisonTags: humor men women sex funny anatomy girlfriends size
I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.
Siri HustvedtTags: love poetry metaphor anatomy
It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: science study morbid anatomy sherlock moriarty skull
Every secret of the body was rendered up--bone risen through flesh, sacrilegious glimpses of an intestine or an optic nerve. From this new and intimate perspective, [Briony] learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew: that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.
Ian McEwanTags: truth philosophy body anatomy
Very often conditions are recorded as observable "under thy fingers" [...] Among such observations it is important to notice that the pulsations of the human heart are observed.
James Henry BreastedTags: biology anatomy pulse human-heart ancient-egypt hieroglyphic ancient-medicine philology medical-history
[...] we have in our treatise a series of fifty-seven examinations, almost exclusively of injuries of the human body forming a group of observations furnishing us with the earliest known nucleus of fact regarding the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the human body. Crude and elementary as they are, the method by which they were collected was scientific, and these observations, together with the diagnoses and the explanatory commentary in the ancient glosses, form the oldest body of science now extant.
James Henry BreastedTags: biology anatomy ancient-egypt hieroglyphic ancient-medicine medical-history
The attention given to the side of the head which has received the injury, in connection with a specific reference to the side of the body nervously affected, is in itself evidence that in this case the ancient surgeon was already beginning observations on the localization of functions in the brain.
James Henry BreastedTags: biology brain neuroscience anatomy injuries ancient-egypt hieroglyphic ancient-medicine medical-history
Speechlessness, however, affirmed in the diagnosis, is carefully based on the facts of the examination, as we see by rendering the statements concerned, just as they stand in examination and diagnosis: "If thou examinest a man having a wound in the temple, ...; if thou ask of him concerning his malady and he speak not to thee; ...; thou shouldst say concerning him, 'One having a wound in his temple, ... (and) he is speechless'.
James Henry BreastedTags: speech brain neuroscience anatomy ancient-egypt hieroglyphic disorders ancient-medicine medical-history frontal-lobe speech-pathology
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