Category: Anatomy

  • Can running help your knees?

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    I’ve been aware of this for some time, but the New York Times have summarised some of the data suggesting that running is good for your knees. Most people seem to think that the impact of running is bad for your joints, but as long as you look after yourself and your joints you’re less…

  • Bones

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    Now that’s a vertebrate! I’d love to spend more time looking at dinosaur bones and the similarities between vertebrates on separate evolutionary destinations. Does anyone fancy another museum trip?

  • Decision time

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    Most of the sports injuries I’ve had over the last year have been troubling but fairly easily and quickly remedied. Some have been long term problems that I was already aware of and have worked for months in the gym to try to fix, with much success. Very recently I’ve picked up my first connective…

  • Podcasts

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    Rhi and I have been chatting this week about getting the podcast series moving again. It has merely been on pause as Rhi and baby Dexter have been settling into their new roles of mother and baby and we always intended to pick up where we left off. We going to dust off the recording…

  • Basic anatomy ‘baffles Britons’

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    There’s an article on the BBC website this morning covering a study that tested the lay population on their knowledge of anatomy. “A team at King’s College London found public understanding of basic anatomy has not improved since a similar survey was conducted 40 years ago. “Less than 50% of the more than 700 people…

  • Working!

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    Working!, originally uploaded by samwebster. My job is fun. I was walking this skeleton around the School of Medicine. No-one else wanted to take the lift with him.

  • Penultimate embryology lecture quiz

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    In the pharyngeal arches embryology lecture the boys won the quiz again, bringing the score to 5:4 to the girls. I think the boys have decided to get competitive and might be paying attention to the quiz, and maybe even to the lecture itself! There will be one final lecture (that I hope will be…

  • Online Calendars

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    If any of you subscribe to my online calendars to synchronise with your own (e.g. anatomy, DGR), note that I’m just about to move them to MobileMe. You can subscribe to the calendars from the links at the bottom right of the medicine page of this website.

  • Anatomy of the infratemporal fossa (continued)

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    OK, where were we? By looking at the medial and lateral pterygoid muscles we found ourselves in the infratemporal fossa. This space is bounded superiorly by the sphenoid bone (and the temporal bone), laterally by the ramus of the mandible, medially by the lateral plate of the pterygoid process and anteriorly by the maxilla. You…

  • Anatomy of the infratemporal fossa

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    In my anatomy session this week we started looking at the anatomy of the head (as I may have mentioned several times, probably my favourite area, anatomically-speaking). In this station, we looked at the movements of the jaw, the muscles that make those movements, some of the bones involved (bones of the skull – get…