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Thieme Medical Publishers is a German medical and science publisher in the Thieme Publishing Group. It produces professional journals, textbooks, atlases, monographs and reference books in both German and English covering a variety of medical specialties, including neurosurgery, orthopaedics, endocrinology, urology, radiology, anatomy, chemistry, otolaryngology, ophthalmology, audiology and ...
John Charles Boileau Grant (1886–1973) was a British-Canadian anatomist, who was the Chair of Anatomy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine from 1930 to 1956. . Grant is best known for his textbook Grant's Atlas of Anatomy and Grant's Dissector which is now in its 17th edition and used by medical students all over the wor
Johannes Wolfgang Rohen (18 September 1921 – 26 May 2022) was a German anatomist. [1]Born in Münster on 18 September 1921, he was mostly known for his photographic atlas of human anatomy cadaver dissection, Color Atlas of Anatomy - A Photographic Study of the Human Body, one of the most widely used atlases in the field.
It contributed to the Chinese understanding of anatomy, [5] and it continues to be used as an influential reference work for practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine. [6] The book contains many guidelines and recommendations for the prevention of chronic diseases and micronutrient deficiencies such as beriberi, xerophthalmia, and goitre. [7]
[c] [5] A travel atlas may also be referred to as a road map. [6] A desk atlas is made similar to a reference book. It may be in hardback or paperback form. There are atlases of the other planets (and their satellites) in the Solar System. [7] Atlases of anatomy exist, mapping out organs of the human body or other organisms. [8]
The gross anatomy of a muscle is the most important indicator of its role in the body. One particularly important aspect of gross anatomy of muscles is pennation or lack thereof. In most muscles, all the fibers are oriented in the same direction, running in a line from the origin to the insertion.
He is remembered today for the Sobotta atlas of human anatomy, a masterpiece of macroscopic anatomy acclaimed for its high quality and detail. First issued in 1904 with the title Atlas der deskriptiven Anatomie des Menschen ("Atlas of descriptive human anatomy"), it has been published in more than 300 editions in 19 languages (15 editions in ...
Frank Henry Netter (25 April 1906 – 17 September 1991) was an American surgeon and medical illustrator.The first edition of his Atlas of Human Anatomy — his "personal Sistine Chapel" [1] — was published in 1989; he was a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine where he was first published in 1957.