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This is the same kind of phenomenon that Richard S. Hunter (1969) calls "geometric attributes of appearance". [1] The advantage is that the concept of cesia encompasses all the involved aspects in a single word, and that all cesias have been organized in a three-dimensional order system according to three axes of variation, similar to color order systems or color models.
Superficial (from Latin superficies ' surface ') describes something near the outer surface of the organism. [1] For example, in skin , the epidermis is superficial to the subcutis . [ 27 ]
Surface anatomy (also called superficial anatomy and visual anatomy) is the study of the external features of the body of an animal. [1] In birds , this is termed topography . Surface anatomy deals with anatomical features that can be studied by sight, without dissection .
Superficial and deep, which describe structures that are closer to (superficial) or farther from (deep) the surface of the body. For example, the skin is superficial to the bones, and the brain is deep to the skull. [12] Sometimes profound is used synonymously with deep.
Human physical appearance is the outward phenotype or look of human beings. Image of a European female (left) and an East Asian male (right) human body seen from front (upper) and back (lower). Adult human bodies photographed whose naturally-occurring pubic, body, facial, but not head hair have been deliberately removed to show anatomy.
Image of a human eye showing the blood vessels of the bulbar conjunctiva Hyperaemia of the superficial bulbar conjunctiva blood vessels. In the anatomy of the eye, the conjunctiva (pl.: conjunctivae) is a thin mucous membrane that lines the inside of the eyelids and covers the sclera (the white of the eye). [1]
The accessory visual structures (or adnexa of eye, ocular adnexa, etc.) are the protecting and supporting structures of the eye, including the eyebrow, eyelids, and lacrimal apparatus.
Since "visual appearance" is a general concept that includes also various other visual phenomena, such as color, visual texture, visual perception of shape, size, etc., the specific aspects related to how humans see different spatial distributions of light (absorbed, transmitted and reflected, either regularly or diffusely) have been given the ...