For many countries across the world, October marks Breast Cancer Awareness month. This international health campaign originally started in the United States in 1985. The goal was to educate women about breast cancer and early detection tests, ultimately letting women take control of their breast health.Leer artículo
Author: Ashton Luxgrant
The Popliteal Fossa
At the posterior aspect of the knee? lies the popliteal fossa. It is a diamond shaped♦️area that holds several important nerves and vessels that travel from the thigh to the knee. In this snippet we will take a closer look at its borders and contents. Leer artículo
Rotator cuff tear: The Facts
Often rotator cuff injuries are associated with professional athletes, such as pitchers⚾️ and tennis players?. However, a majority of patients are those ages 50 and over.Leer artículo
Innervation of the eye
The eye is an amazing and complex structure ?. In fact, the only other organ that’s more complex than is the brain. Incredibly, the eye is made up of over 2 million working parts — the optic nerve alone contains between 770,000 and 1.7 million nerve fibers ?.Leer artículo
The mandible and its features
In 2015, scientists working in Ethiopia found the earliest known fossil of the ancestral line of humans. This fossil was of the mandible, also known as our jawbone.Leer artículo
The muscles of facial expression
Did you know humans are capable of making 10,000 unique facial expressions ????!Leer artículo
Vasculature of the eye
Have you ever taken a photo with friends, but then on a closer look your eyes come out piercing red ?? Red eyes in photos are caused by the light from the flash bouncing off the capillaries in your eyes ?! Leer artículo
Intrinsic and extrinsic muscles of the tongue
Did that title get you tongue-tied? ? You may have heard the common myth that the tongue is the strongest muscle in your body ?. However, this is in fact untrue.Leer artículo
SNEAK PEAK: Revamped Dura folds
Today let’s learn about the dura mater while also getting an exclusive look of our revamped Head & Neck model, coming this summer to Complete Anatomy.Leer artículo
Anatomy of the thyroid
Within our neck lies a small butterfly-shaped gland that works with multiple parts of our body ?. This gland is the thyroid. It sits just below the larynx and is comprised of two lobes. These lobes rest on the trachea and together weigh less than an ounce.Leer artículo