Professional Documents
Culture Documents
What is Anatomy?
• Human anatomy is the science concerned
with the structure of the human body.
Terminology: It’s Greek to me!
• Fortunately some of
these documents
were salvaged by the
Moslems and
translated into their
language, Arabic.
Rediscovery
• About 1100 A.D.,
Christian scholars
discovered these Arabic
translations and began
the slow process of
translating them into
Latin.
• This exposed a wealth of
lost and forgotten
information.
• Not until the 16th century
were these works finally
translated.
First Autopsy
• In the year 1286 we
have reference to a
human dissection
being performed to
determine the cause
of death.
• Today, this procedure
is called an autopsy.
Rise of Medical Schools
• By the early 1300’s anatomical studies were
again becoming fashionable.