The Bodies exhibit!
The human body is a beautiful, amazing thing! I’m always interested to learn more about how it works and what it really all looks like under the skin. For that reason I’m excited to hear the “BODIES” exhibition is coming […]
The human body is a beautiful, amazing thing! I’m always interested to learn more about how it works and what it really all looks like under the skin. For that reason I’m excited to hear the “BODIES” exhibition is coming […]
Nearly 830 women die in Nepal for every 100,000 live births. This is the 16th worst maternal mortality rate in the world. So when Dr. Yogesh Shah, associate dean of global affairs for Des Moines University, met Charlie Wittmack, a
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The name is a direct borrowing from the Greek word splen. The spleen is located in the upper left quadrant of the abdomen behind the stomach. Despite its location, it has nothing to do with digestion, but works in regulating blood
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Technology has become an essential part of many of our lives and medical students are no exception. DMU osteopathic medicine, podiatric medicine and physician assistant students receive iPod Touches which are especially useful while they are on rotations. Jonathan Thompson,
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This is the major vein in the neck draining blood most importantly from inside the skull. The Latin jugulummeant “the throat, yoke or collar”. The ancient Greeks referred to this structure as the “sacrificial vein”, likely a reference to cutting the
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Have you ever gone on a campus tour and felt like you didn’t really get to see the heart and guts of the school? We don’t want that to happen at DMU. We also don’t want you to visit and
The Latin word for “an opening, a gaping mouth”. The diaphragm, the muscular partition that divides the chest from the abdomen, has three openings. The aorta, esophagus and inferior vena cava each pass through a hiatus in the diaphragm. You
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The Achilles tendon attaches major calf muscles, the gastrocnemius and soleus, to the calcaneous (heel bone). Achilles was a famous Greek warrior whose mother was one of the immortals, but he was not. His mother sought to protect her son
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A deep layer of the scalp is a close fitting, tough connective tissue “helmet” called the galea aponeurotica. In the ancient Roman army, common foot soldiers were issued a close fitting leather helmet called a “galea”.
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There are two major categories of anatomical terms: those that are simply descriptive as to shape, size, color, function and eponyms, the practice of honoring those who discover or first describe a structure by applying their name to it (e.g.
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