To “suspend or hang” in Greek. In the male body, the cremaster is part of a mechanism to suspend the testes in a special pouch, the scrotum. Why do the testes reside in a special pouch outside the body proper? […]
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Des Moines University faculty and students hosted high schoolers from the Health Careers Academy class at Southeast Polk High School in Pleasant Hill, Iowa, for a day of science. Michael Metts, chair of Specialty Medicine, taught the visitors some medical terminology and
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Sounds like a mouth-watering selection from an Italian restaurant menu! Actually, these terms are not far removed from this suggestion since they describe a muscle in your palate. Terms describing muscles are from the Latin and identify them by location,
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A record 67 researchers presented their work to students, faculty and health care professionals at the 2014 DMU Research Symposium on December 4. Five DMU students and two alums were recognized for outstanding research in the most competitive field in the Symposium’s five
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When Julie Meachen and Rachel Dunn went digging, so did media outlets around the globe: Both assistant anatomy professors spent part of the summer in Wyoming’s Big Horn Mountains, foraging for fossils as part of major research expeditions. Meachen was featured in stories and
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Des Moines University and Des Moines Public Schools (DMPS) have a long-standing relationship that allows DMPS students to visit campus for hands-on experiences in anatomy and other areas. That partnership is about to expand thanks to a $20,000 Innovate Learning
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In the ancient Greek army a row of troops was called a phalanx. To later anatomists, the rows of bones of the fingers and toes were reminiscent of rows of troops; hence, the plural word, phalanges. The term has modern
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Our “tailbone” was called the “cuckoo” by the Greeks who thought it resembled the beak of the bird of the same name. This structure is a fusion of three or four vertebral bones, greatly reduced in size, that is attached to
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“In front of the elbow” in Latin. The hollow in the crook of your arm in front of the elbow, with its easily accessible veins, is frequently used to insert a needle to draw blood. The cubit, an archaic unit
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The fat pad over the pubic area of females is currently termed the mons pubis (pubic mountain-Latin). An older term, the mons veneris (the mountain of Venus) referred to the Roman Goddess of Love, also known as Aphrodite in Greek
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