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| | Anatomy - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article |
 | | From that of Medicine it consists of a knowledge of the exact form, position, size and relationship of the various structures of the healthy human body, and to this study the term descriptive or topographical human anatomy is given, though it is often, less happily, spoken of as anthropotomy. |
 | | So intricate is the human body that only a small number of professional human anatomists, after years of patient observation, are complete masters of all its details; most of them specialize on certain parts, such as the brain or viscera, contenting themselves with a good working knowledge of the rest. |
 | | Topographical anatomy must be learned by repeated dissection and inspection of dead human bodies. |
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