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Carl Gegenbaur was born in Würzburg, Bavaria, in 1826, and he entered the University of Würzburg as a student in 1845. After taking his degree in 1851, he spent some time in travelling in Italy and Sicily, before returning to Wurzburg as Privatdozent in 1854.
The French anatomist Paul Broca, for whom Broca's area in the frontal lobe of the brain is named, died in 1880. His own brain became part of the collection of brains held by the Musée de l'Homme. Carl Sagan wrote about holding the brain in his hands in his 1979 book Broca's Brain. The brain is kept in a low cylindrical bottle, fragmented, and ...
The ankle, the talocrural region [1] or the jumping bone (informal) is the area where the foot and the leg meet. [2] The ankle includes three joints: the ankle joint proper or talocrural joint, the subtalar joint, and the inferior tibiofibular joint. [3] [4] [5] The movements produced at this joint are dorsiflexion and plantarflexion of the ...
The leg (between the knee and the ankle) is the crus and crural area, the lateral aspect of the leg is the peroneal area, and the calf is the sura and sural region. The ankle is the tarsus and tarsal, and the heel is the calcaneus or calcaneal. The foot is the pes and pedal region, and the sole of the foot is the planta and plantar.
The talus bone or ankle bone is connected superiorly to the two bones of the lower leg, the tibia and fibula, to form the ankle joint or talocrural joint; inferiorly, at the subtalar joint, to the calcaneus or heel bone. Together, the talus and calcaneus form the hindfoot. [1]
Batson's plexus – Oscar Vivian Batson (1894–1979), American anatomist; Long thoracic nerve of Bell – Sir Charles Bell (1774–1842), Scottish surgeon-anatomist; Duct of Bellini – Lorenzo Bellini (1643–1704), Italian anatomist; Renal columns of Bertin – Exupere Joseph Bertin (1712–1781), French anatomist
The talus (/ ˈ t eɪ l ə s /; Latin for ankle [1] or ankle bone; [2] pl.: tali), talus bone, astragalus (/ ə ˈ s t r æ ɡ ə l ə s /), or ankle bone is one of the group of foot bones known as the tarsus. The tarsus forms the lower part of the ankle joint. It transmits the entire weight of the body from the lower legs to the foot. [3]
Acting via the Achilles tendon, the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles cause plantar flexion of the foot at the ankle. This action brings the sole of the foot closer to the back of the leg. The gastrocnemius also flexes the leg at the knee. Both muscles are innervated by the tibial nerve. [14]