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  2. Visible Human Project - Wikipedia

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    Reconstruction of the Visible Human's Inner Organs in the VOXEL-MAN Atlas (1998) Various projects to make the raw data more useful for educational purposes are under way. It is necessary to build a three-dimensional virtual model of the body where the organs are labeled, may be removed selectively and viewed from all sides, and ideally are even ...

  3. Reticular membrane - Wikipedia

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    The inner phalangeal cells that surround the inner hair cells reach the surface of the organ of Corti, but, even their inner-most row, are not included in the reticular membrane. [2] Thus, the RM up to the outer edge of the tectorial membrane and does not extend unto the surface of the organ of Corti.

  4. List of human cell types - Wikipedia

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    The Human Cell Atlas project, which started in 2016, had as one of its goals to "catalog all cell types (for example, immune cells or brain cells) and sub-types in the human body". [13] By 2018, the Human Cell Atlas description based the project on the assumption that "our characterization of the hundreds of types and subtypes of cells in the ...

  5. Human body - Wikipedia

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    Naturally-occurring pubic, body, and facial hair have been deliberately removed to show anatomy. The human body is the entire structure of a human being . It is composed of many different types of cells that together create tissues and subsequently organs and then organ systems .

  6. Organ of Corti - Wikipedia

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    The organ of Corti is located in the scala media of the cochlea of the inner ear between the vestibular duct and the tympanic duct and is composed of mechanosensory cells, known as hair cells. [2] Strategically positioned on the basilar membrane of the organ of Corti are three rows of outer hair cells (OHCs) and one row of inner hair cells ...

  7. List of human anatomical regions - Wikipedia

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    the digital/phalangeal region encompassing the fingers. The thumb is referred to as the pollex. The posterior view contains, from superior to inferior, the cervical region encompassing the neck, the scapular region encompassing the scapulae and the area around, the dorsal region encompassing the upper back; the lumbar region encompassing the ...

  8. Human anatomy - Wikipedia

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    Microscopic anatomy is the study of minute anatomical structures assisted with microscopes, which includes histology (the study of the organization of tissues), [1] and cytology (the study of cells). Anatomy, human physiology (the study of function), and biochemistry (the study of the chemistry of living structures) are complementary basic ...

  9. List of organs of the human body - Wikipedia

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    This article contains a list of organs in the human body. It is widely believed that there are 79 organs (this number goes up if you count each bone and muscle as an organ on their own, which is becoming a more common practice [1] [2]); however, there is no universal standard definition of what constitutes an organ, and some tissue groups' status as one is debated. [3]