According to Walmsley, 1 it was Andreas Vesalius who suggested the picturesque term “mitral” to describe the left atrioventricular valve owing to its resemblance to a plan view of the bishop’s mitre. Guarding the inlet to the left ventricle, the mitral valve prevents backflow to the left atrium during ventricular systole. In its open state, the valvar leaflets are like a funnel extending from t...

One of the most stirring controversies in the history of Anatomy is that Herophilus, an ancient Greek anatomist and his younger contemporary, Erasistratus, were accused of performing vivisections of living humans. However, this does not detract from the fact that Herophilus has made phenomenal anatomical observations of the human body which have contributed significantly towards the understandi...

OBJECTIVES Foramen Vesalius is an inconstant foramen that gives passage to an emissary vein that connects pterygoid venous plexus with cavernous sinus, the importance of which lies in the fact that an infected thrombus from an extracranial source may reach cavernous sinus. This study presents some data on characteristics of foramen vesalius. METHODS We studied 70 sides of 35 dried adult human...

HE FIGHT for and against Vesalius began almost immediately after the publication of the Fabrica. It was characterized by two facts: the i first, that many of Vesalius' followers adopted his ideas, plagiarizing his book, badly reproducing the anatomical illustrations and sometimes suppressing his name, often presenting the whole-as a new interpretation of Galen's anatomy; the second, that the at...

The purpose of this study was to determine the locations of the second edition (1555) of the De Humani Corporis Fabrica written by Vesalius.Contacts were made with institutions of higher learning, museum libraries, and libraries of national collections, libraries of research institutions, cathedral libraries, antique book dealers, trade journals, book auctions and private collectors.A total of ...

Background: Foramen of vesalius is an inconstant foramen that gives passage to emissary vein connects pterygoid venous plexus with cavernous sinus. It lies in the anteromedial side ovale. ovale allows for mandibular branch trigeminal nerve, main site rhizotomy. The presence and description anatomical variations about Vesalius important during surgical procedure on nerve which may injure leading...

Laboratory of Myeloid Cell Immunology, VIB, Brussels, Belgium Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium Laboratory of Molecular Oncology and Angiogenesis, Vesalius Research Center, VIB, Leuven, Belgium Laboratory of Molecular Oncology and Angiogenesis, Vesalius Research Center, K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Cell Differentiation Unit, Diabetes ...

INTRODUCTION ANDREAS VESALIUS failed to mention by name the illustrators of his De humani corporis fabrica (1543) and no marks can be found on the woodcuts which help to identify the draughtsman or the engraver. Although the name of Jan Stevens, better known as J. S. van Calcar [1499-1546] appeared in the colophon of the Tabulae anatomicae sex, 1538, the analysis by O'Malley (1964) of the produ...

VESALIUS' ILLUSTRATION of the 'sixth pair' of cranial nerves in the De Humani Corporis Fabrica shows the sympathetic trunk arising as a branch of the vagus in a position corresponding to the top of the thorax (see fig. 1). The text is the verbal equivalent of the illustration. Although of all Vesalius' work, the cranial nerves are perhaps the most open to criticism,' this error remained uncorre...

OR ONE UNLEARNED in anatomy, and h aving "small Latin and less Greek," it seems presumptuous to speak here of Andreas Vesalius and his Fabrca, or, indeed, of John _ 1 Oporinus the printer and his edition of that great work, for he, too, was a scholar of no mean parts. If I speak with caution of the author-and, indeed, in view of those who also speak here today I have little right to speak at al...