ANATOPOD - The Anatomy Podcast

This podcast describes the boundaries and approach to the infratemporal and pterygopalatine fossae and the entry and exit chambers of the latter as well as the contents: Includes a discussion of the maxillary artery, the mandibular division of the trigeminal nerve (V3), the muscles of mastication (temporalis, masseter, medial and lateral pterygoid), the pterygopalatine ganglion and the pterygoid v...

FIRST HEAD AND NECK QUIZ. Multiple Choice format. There are 15 questions. Some questions may have multiple answers that are correct. These questions have been posed in order to appreciate whether you understand basic areas of the Head and Neck anatomy rather than particular questions.   I will discuss the answers in a later podcast. Good luck! AZ

In this podcast I discuss the milieu into which the Belgian anatomist Andreas Vesalius (1514-64) arrived. Paris lagged well behind Padua in dissection skills and Vesalius introduced the radical idea that he should dissect the body himself simultaneously as he was teaching, rather than just reading to the students aloud from the ancient textbooks. There were so many findings that were discordant wi...

Part 2 of the Anatomization of Art considers how differences in the personality of Leonardo and Michelangelo influenced their ability to dissect the corpse. By the end for Leonardo there was more legend than influence from a mind whose genius Goethe (1749-1832) had written "müde sich gedacht" (had thought itself weary). The science historian George Sarton (1884-1956) wrote of Leonardo that [his] “...

ANATOMY HEAD AND NECK 6   In this podcast I discuss the brain stem and its ascending/descending tract arrangement in broad terms and a bit about the nuclei such as the nucleus ambiguus and the nucleus solitarius. For those uninterested in this I would skip the first half hour. I then go on to discuss each of the cranial nerves as they emanate from the brain stem as well as the course and branches...

PART 1: The Anatomization of Art: Anatomic Realism and the Dissecting Habits of Leonardo and Michelangelo   This is the next in the History of Anatomy section of ANATOPOD….   It discusses the differences between the personalities of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) and Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) and how these differences governed the use of the cadaver in the betterment of their art.   Part...

AHN 5: The basic osteology of the skull is considered along with the boundaries and division of the cranial cavity into the anterior, middle and posterior cranial fossae. The foraminae and their contents are discussed as are the individual bones and their ossification. Includes: Occiptal, Temporal, Sphenoid, Parietal,Frontal, Ethmoid and the Palatine bones. The anatomy of the scalp and its neurova...

From the earliest record by Fra Salimbene of an autopsy in 1286, the postmortem examination became the new method of estimating the cause of death. But the rise of autopsy and its social acceptance allowed the anatomists to dissect the human body for inquisitive means. In some cases like Boniface VIII it irked the Pope so much that he issued his decretal the Detestande feritatis Bull in 1299 prohi...

Description of the infrastructure of the Autonomic Nervous System of the Head and Neck  Sympathetic Nervous System and Horner's Syndrome  The Parasympathetic Nervous System Structure (Nucleus, Preganglionic pathways, ganglia, postganglionic pathways and the target tissues)  The 4 Head and Neck Ganglia (Ciliary, Submandibular, Pterygopalatine and Otic) 

This podcast discusses the anatomy of the sternocleidomastoid muscle and the trapezius as well as the spinal accessory (XI) nerve. The levator scapulae, scalenii (and their relations), the other prevertebral muscles (longus colli, longus capitis and rectus capitis major) are also considered as is the subclavius. The architecture of the cervical plexus is discussed.

This podcast provides an overview of how anatomy became illustrated beginning with Vesalius who conducted dissections himself and who inveigled the artist Jan Stephan van Calkar to provide exquisite illustrations. With this move anatomy switched from an aural to a new visual tradition and in allowing students to perform their own dissections it democratized anatomy as it acquired a new scientific...

We continue with the second part of the introduction to the history of anatomy and the dissection of the human cadaver. This indeed is the story of anatomy's leading protagonist, the cadaver and of its willing or unwilling dissection in the discovery of the interior of the body. In this introduction I touch on how the Renaissance spirit made its way albeit reluctantly toward the anatomists, why th...

This Podcast introduces ANATOPOD - the first podcast designed to teach anatomy to a high level. Following this introductory podcast the weekly series will move to the detailed anatomy of the Head and Neck and Neuroanatomy as well as adding podcasts on the history of anatomy and cadaveric dissection.

We begin with an overview of the history of cadaveric dissection and the beginnings of anatomy as a discrete discipline. Since the traveling Body Worlds Show of Gunther von Hagens there has been a resurgence of public interest in the cadaver and its social impact. I outline the fascination with dissecting the human body and how I moved from life as a practicing surgeon to an anatomy tutor. This is...

This podcast covers the infrahyoid musculature layout and the anatomy and relations of the thyroid gland and the parathyroids along with the important surgical anatomy of the recurrent and external laryngeal nerves. In the second half of this podcast the surgical anatomy and operative surgical approach to the parotid and the submandibular gland are discussed. Some of the suprahyoid muscle arrangem...

This podcast outlines the neck triangles and their boundaries, the different neck fasciae (investing layer of deep cervical, pretracheal, prevertebral, carotid sheath, buccopharyngeal and pharyngobasilar) and their significance in surgery and sepsis. There is a preamble about how to approach the detailed anatomy of the head and neck by compartmentalized study. The subdivisions of the triangles are...