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Nana tells the story of Anna "Nana" Coupeau's rise from streetwalker to high-class prostitute during the last three years of the French Second Empire.Nana first appeared near the end of L'Assommoir (1877), Zola's earlier novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, where she is the daughter of an abusive drunk.
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]
For three centuries, the statutes of many medical schools required lecturers on anatomy to use Anathomia as their textbook. [14] Jacopo Berengario da Carpi, a 16th-century professor of anatomy at Bologna, wrote an extensive commentary on Mondino's work, and the text of Anathomia was incorporated into Ketham's 1493 text Fasciculus medicinae. [25 ...
6 July 2017 (2nd ed.) Biology/Anthropology 101: Molecules: Philip Ball: 27 November 2003: Stories of the Invisible: A Guided Tour of Molecules, 2001: Biology/Chemistry 102: Art history: Dana Arnold: 22 January 2004 2 March 2020 (2nd ed.) Art/History 103: Presocratic Philosophy: Catherine Osborne: 22 April 2004: Philosophy/Classical Studies 104 ...
In anatomy, the thigh is the area between the hip and the knee.Anatomically, it is part of the lower limb.. The single bone in the thigh is called the femur.This bone is very thick and strong (due to the high proportion of bone tissue), and forms a ball and socket joint at the hip, and a modified hinge joint at the knee.
Zola Katharine Cooper (September 10, 1904 – October 23, 1954) was an American dermatologist, cancer researcher, and medical school professor, based in St. Louis, Missouri. Early life [ edit ]
Human anatomy is the scientific study of the morphology of the adult human. It is subdivided into gross anatomy and microscopic anatomy . Gross anatomy (also called topographical anatomy, regional anatomy, or anthropotomy) is the study of anatomical structures that can be seen by unaided vision.
Xavier Bichat introduced the word tissue into the study of anatomy by 1801. [6] He was "the first to propose that tissue is a central element in human anatomy , and he considered organs as collections of often disparate tissues, rather than as entities in themselves". [ 7 ]