The Pharos/Spring 2007 The author is a member of the Class of 2009 at Duke University School of Medicine. This essay won honorable mention in the 2006 Alpha Omega Alpha Helen H. Glaser Student Essay competition. All images are reprinted courtesy of the Duke University Medical Center Library, Trent Collection, History of Medicine Collections, and were photographed by the author with permission.

On July 22nd 1987 a small party of members of the Society visited Windsor Castle by appointment to see a selection of the anatomical drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. There are several hundred of these in folios in the Royal Collection and these are all listed in Volume 3 of 'The drawings of Leonardo da Vinci' by Sir Kenneth Clark. Before going we were asked to select 20 drawings from the list and...

in a cross-sectional study aiming to investigate the anatomical distribution of colorectal cancer in a six years period, patients file were studied and 150 patients with colorectal cancer were selected based on age, gender, place of residency, place of anatomical tumor and biological symptom. the findings indicated that 91(59.9) of patients had adenocarcinum, 54 (35.5) pulyp and 7 (4.6) had oth...

By Bulgarian anatomical terms we mean the names established by scientific tradition, duplicating the Latin anatomical terms and coined with the means of the Bulgarian language or loan-words which are grammatically integrated (assimilated) into the Bulgarian anatomical text and are written in the Cyrillic alphabet. In their integrity and systemic relationships, the Bulgarian anatomical terms mak...

BACKGROUNDS/AIMS Liver resection is a curative procedure performed worldwide for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Deciding on the appropriate resection range for postoperative hepatic function preservation is an important surgical consideration. This study compares survival outcomes of HCC patients who underwent anatomical or non-anatomical resection, to determine which offers the best clinical ...

OBJECTIVE Conceptualization of the physical objects and spaces that constitute the human body at the macroscopic level of organization, specified as a machine-parseable ontology that, in its human-readable form, is comprehensible to both expert and novice users of anatomical information. DESIGN Conceived as an anatomical enhancement of the UMLS Semantic Network and Metathesaurus, the anatomic...