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  2. Lung - Wikipedia

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    The lungs stretch from close to the backbone in the rib cage to the front of the chest and downwards from the lower part of the trachea to the diaphragm. [1] The left lung shares space with the heart, and has an indentation in its border called the cardiac notch of the left lung to accommodate this.

  3. Human Cell Atlas - Wikipedia

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    Human Cell Atlas; Content; Description: The Human Cell Atlas is a global consortium that is creating detailed maps of the cells in the human body to transform understanding of health and disease. Organisms: Human: Contact; Primary citation: Regev, Aviv; et al. (Human Cell Atlas Organizing Committee) (2018). "The Human Cell Atlas White Paper".

  4. Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy - Wikipedia

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    The Atlas was originally released as a series of VHS tapes, published individually between 1995 and 2003. [2] The series was re-released in 2003 on DVD as Acland's DVD Atlas of Human Anatomy . The series uses unembalmed human specimens to illustrate anatomical structures. [ 3 ]

  5. Scientists announce progress toward ambitious atlas of human ...

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    The work is part of the ongoing Human Cell Atlas project that was begun in 2016 and involves researchers around the world. The human body comprises roughly 37 trillion cells, with each cell type ...

  6. Rib cage - Wikipedia

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    The human rib cage is a component of the human respiratory system. It encloses the thoracic cavity, which contains the lungs. An inhalation is accomplished when the muscular diaphragm, at the floor of the thoracic cavity, contracts and flattens, while the contraction of intercostal muscles lift the rib cage up and out.

  7. Respiratory tract - Wikipedia

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    The lungs are the largest organs in the lower respiratory tract. The lungs are suspended within the pleural cavity of the thorax. The pleurae are two thin membranes, one cell layer thick, which surround the lungs. The inner (visceral pleura) covers the lungs and the outer (parietal pleura) lines the inner surface of the chest wall. This ...

  8. List of anatomy mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of human anatomy mnemonics, categorized and alphabetized.For mnemonics in other medical specialties, see this list of medical mnemonics.Mnemonics serve as a systematic method for remembrance of functionally or systemically related items within regions of larger fields of study, such as those found in the study of specific areas of human anatomy, such as the bones in the hand ...

  9. 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 ...