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independence of the IANC. The IANC did not believe that their work should be subject to the
approval of IFAA Member Associations.
The types of discussion underlying this dispute are illustrated in an article by Roger Warwick,
then Honorary Secretary of the IANC:[23]
What declined, however, was the influence of the IANC on anatomical terminology. The IANC
published a sixth edition of Nomina Anatomica,[24] but it was never approved by the IFAA.
Thirteenth congress
Instead, at the Thirteenth Congress (Rio de Janeiro, 1989), the IFAA created a new committee –
the Federative Committee on Anatomical Terminology (FCAT).[25] The FCAT took over the
task of revising international anatomical terminology. The result was the publication, in 1998,[26]
of a "new, updated, simplified and uniform anatomical terminology", the Terminologia
Anatomica (TA)[27] . The IANC was acknowledged in this work as follows:
Since the first meeting, the FCAT made several contacts with the IANC aiming at the
natural transition from the old approach to the approach established by the General
Assembly of the IFAA. Such initiatives, however, did not result in a modus vivendi for
harmonious collaboration.[28]
The 39th edition of Gray's Anatomy (2005) explicitly recognizes Terminologia Anatomica.[29]