Category: Teaching

  • Hip & Thigh Links

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    I’m adding some links to the “muscles of the hip joint” entry below, so will stick them here too. How Stuff Works: Why do humans walk on two legs? – an article exploring some of the thoughts of why we walk on two legs. BBC Science & Nature: Mother of man – 3.2 million years…

  • Week 112 – Muscles of the hip joint

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    In week 112 we talked about the movements of the hip joints and the muscles that cause and control those movements, trying to link them to our upright, bipedal locomotion. We started off by looking at the joint itself: the acetabulum (socket) of the pelvis and the head of the femur (ball). It’s helpful to…

  • Teaching blog update

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    I still haven’t blogged my notes from my hip joint musculoskeletal anatomy session last week. Bad me. I’ve written part of it but haven’t finished it yet for a couple of reasons. The first is general busyness and prioritising, but the second is because of a shift in the way that I work. I can…

  • Week 110 – hand anatomy

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    This week I talked about the anatomy of the hand, and in particular the intrinsic muscles of the hand. The extrinsic muscles, the blood supply and the nervous innervation are largely covered elsewhere, and you need to link all these bits together. I talked about how the tendons of the flexor digitorum superficialis and flexor…

  • Week 109 – embryology of the musculoskeletal system

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    Last week I gave a lecture on the development of the musculoskeletal system, restricting the talk to the cells of the somites and the organisation of the cells of the limbs. If you want to recap the lecture, you can listen to the podcasts in iTunes, or hear them here: ep5, somites; ep6 limbs.

  • Week 109 – breast anatomy

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    In the last anatomy session I talked about the anatomy of the breast (or mammary gland), changes through life, and the similarities between the male and female breast. I started off by talking about supernumerary nipples, using James Bond’s fake nipple as a bad example in the film, “The Man With The Golden Gun”. I…

  • Epiploic appendices!

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    In the last group of the anatomy teaching this morning I was struggling to think of the right name for the little fatty bits of peritoneum hanging off the large bowel. The textbook calls them omental appendices, which I know is correct but doesn’t have the right feel. A quick search of the web turns…

  • academia.edu

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    A database of all the academics in the world? I think that’s the aim of this website: academia.edu

  • Podcast – embryology of the ear

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    Rhi and I published another podcast at the weekend, by the way. We recorded using iChat & Garageband this time & it sounds a little better. Get it from your iTunes feed or from the Medicine page (of this website).

  • Week 106 – development of the gut

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    This week’s embryology lecture attempted to link the processes that form the gastrointestinal (GI) tract with the anatomy that you’re seeing in the lab. We started by recapping the end of the last lecture (gastrulation) and showing how the flat sheet of the early embryo can be rolled up to form a tube. We looked…