He later lectured on anatomy and surgery in Leiden, quickly becoming one of the most famous ... Impossibly, without tendons linking its bones or muscles to maintain its posture, the skeleton stands in ...

Some bones in the skeleton are joined rigidly together and ... Other bones are joined to each other by flexible joints. Muscles are needed to move bones attached by joints. red blood cells ...

For example, your elbow joint has two muscles that move your forearm up or down. These are the biceps on the front of the upper arm and the triceps on the back of the upper arm: to raise the ...

The pelvis rested on a metal tripod and the feet on a low table. He used a live model to correct the positioning of his skeleton, taking great pains to produce a ‘living anatomy’. He also employed a ...

which stand on either side of the professor's chair in the anatomy theatre of the Archiginnasio at Bologna: one print (1780) shows the front view, and the other (Wellcome Library no. 47217i: 1781) ...